I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s an awfully risky thing to live”
“It's an earned privilege to go to bed knowing that you were kind, and one needs to re-earn it every day, and it's harder than expected but worth it.”
“It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.”
Source: The West Wing Script Book
“It’s an embarrassing fact that we are more afraid of embarrassment than a host of other discomforts, but it isn’t less true for all that. How often have you refrained from voicing hope or indignation for fear of being dismissed as childish? Oddly enough, that fear is adolescent, born of a time when few things feel worse than being regarded as a less grown-up than your peers.”
Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
Source: The Queen's Gambit
“It's an essential exchange in the world of work–to be seen and heard and to see others.”
“It's an everyday wish list, until you actually do it, to make it your everyday life experience.”
“It’s an evil fate to fall into the hands of a persecutor who was once persecuted.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“It’s an exciting time to dive into the world of the lesser-known elements like actinides and see what unique possibilities forward-thinkers have envisioned for them.
Americium is named after the Americas because it sits directly below europium on the periodic table, which was named after Europe.”
Source: Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Actinide Knights
“It’s an expensive place. The cheapest salad is twenty-five dollars.”
“I hope that comes with extra croutons and a hand job.”
Source: Lesser Evils
“It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning without disaster.”
Source: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
“IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING
WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE
TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS
FROM SEX AND SURGERY.”
“It's an extraordinary thing about names. You've probably noticed it yourself. You think you've got them, I mean to say, and they simply slither away. I've often wished I had a quid for every time some bird with a perfectly familiar map has come up to me and Hallo-Woostered, and had me gasping for air because I couldn't put a label to him. This always makes one feel at a loss.”
“It’s an honor, being regarded highly enough to be disappointing.”
Source: Half His Age
“It's an honour to know that my pen is a healing device.”
“It's an immediate humanitarianism, without aims or conclusions, that overwhelms me right now. I feel a tenderness as if I were seeing with the eyes of a god. I see everyone as if moved by the compassion of the world's only conscious being. Poor hapless men, poor hapless humanity! What are they all doing here?”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind.”
Source: As for Me and My House
“It's an impressive thing, a shard of human ingenuity broken and stuck in this valley and the flowers growing around it like a monument to how far we can come if we put our minds to it.”
Source: The Salvage Crew
“It’s an improvement to her resting face, best described like she’s permanently smelling foulness.”
Source: Chimera and Curses: Book Two of The Ember Files
“It’s an inconvenient truth that celibacy is a heavy burden. The Church perpetuated the notion that the vow of celibacy was the greatest act of self-sacrifice and commitment to God. However, few stop to seriously consider the loneliness and disconnectedness of celibacy and the constant struggle between being virtuous and sinful.”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“It's an incredible feeling to be the muse of someone's poems when you're both in love. But when the love ends, and you remain the subject of their verses, it becomes one of the most heart-wrenching experiences.”
“It’s an inherent problem we women have. We’re all attracted to the bad boy…the lone wolf…the one who can’t be tamed. We think we can tame him and all we do is get hurt in the process.”
“It's an innocent kiss at first. Soft lips meeting; a gentle pressure that creates a slow burn. The type of kiss you give to someone that means something. This isn't the type of kiss to be wasted on me.”
Source: Dare You To
“It’s an insane venture to live,
to thrive, to create,
to know, be known, to care,
to love, be loved
in these times in all times
against all odds
and darkest forces.”
“It's an insidious thing," Wanda said. "It never happens overnight. This kind of thing crept into our community a long time ago. It latched on. It fed on prejudice. Selfishness. Peoples inability to see life through someone else's eyes. And it grew, bigger and bigger, until we got to a point where some people don't even question why a cop should be allowed to shoot first and ask questions later.”
Source: Anger Is a Gift
“It's an insidious twist of thought that leads one to demand women to give up their reproductive rights to force unwanted pregnancies but then, once birthed from the womb, to deny them access to basic necessities required for even a mediocre life like education, clean air, healthcare, and a fair wage. And these people have the audacity to call their position pro-life.
These same people who bemoan the welfare state, yet refuse to require business to honor a fair wage, appear to want to create the very circumstances that they ceaselessly complain about. I dare say that by perpetuating this condition, by feeding the apparatus of poverty, they are satiating their narcissism.
With poverty securely entrenched, these lucky few can sit back and smile with smug superiority. Because of course, they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, they worked harder, and they have earned what they have. It's a meritocracy, they say, if only by merit of their parent's color of flesh or social standing.
So yes, let's churn out more children who will be unable to claw their way out of poverty, and if they just happen to defy the odds, let's brainwash them into believing this tripe called the American Dream so they will assist us as we throw their less fortunate fortunate siblings into the hungry machine of conservatism. Because we are really only interested in conserving the status quo.”
“It’s an interchangeable group of schoolboys who, bafflingly, have found themselves in charge.”
“It’s an interesting idea, but I would challenge you to decide: Do you hate girls? Or do you hate the expectations put on girls by society?”
Source: Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
“It's an interesting spell. You ask the light to go straight through a thing instead of bouncing off the sides. Took me a long time to get it right. I learned you gotta be real polite when you ask light to do anything.”
Source: In a Dark Land
“It's an invention, a fairy tale devoid of any sense, like all the legends in which good spirits and fortune tellers fulfill wishes. Stories like that are made up by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it—I act. And I always get what I want.”
Source: The Last Wish
“It’s an odd paradox: life’s challenges have the capability to actually make us happier in the end.”
Source: Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety
“It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.”
Source: The Railway Children
“It’s an often repeated lie that familial bonds are the strongest. Some swear by them. Some claim an other-worldly connection with their siblings or nonsense of that order. These can be dismissed as flights of fancy. Artifices of civilization.
In the wild, animals often exhibit what we would perceive as familial love. Some wild cats will grow up nurtured by their mothers, surrounded by their siblings, but should one stray from the pack for too long and attempt to rejoin, it will be summarily eaten or maimed by its ‘family.’ It’s no longer a part of them. The blood connection is irrelevant, what matters is the perception of the group.
Conversely, there have been recorded instances of unfaithful wives giving birth to children from a man other than her husband. The father, oblivious to the indiscretion, loves the child as if it were his own. Would that love fade if he found out the truth?
Who do you love more, your brother or your best friend? What if your brother tried to kill you, who then? Here, then, is my twentieth truth: “Do not trust in blood, trust only in yourself." In the end, that is all you have.”
Source: The Stars That Form Us
“It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage.”
Source: Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of the World
“It’s an old story,” said Jace. “But as you know—all the stories are true.”
“Or at least true in part.” Clary smiled up at him.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“It’s an open secret in good old Hollywood. When charges are filed (rarely), the studios just continually settle with the victims, and use their PR machines to invalidate the claims. Usually where there is smoke there is an inferno, especially as Hollywood is concerned.”
“It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has left town and been replaced by a block of cement with black tar oozing through your veins and mind. This is when you can't decide whether to get a manicure or jump off a cliff. It's all the same. When I was institutionalised I sat on a chair unable to move for three months, frozen in fear. To take a shower was inconceivable. What made it tolerable was while I was inside, I found my tribe - my people. They understood and unlike those who don't suffer, never get bored of you asking if it will ever go away? They can talk medication all hours, day and night; heaven to my ears.”
“It's an unholy crusade against good people everywhere, all in my name. If I had a stomach, I'd be sick to it. You see now why so many good people just give up out there? You can only take so much evil pretending to be good. You can only handle so many broken souls acting as if good people are the evil ones, before you raise your hands and claim defeat. But I want you all to understand something. There is evil happening. There are spirits from Hell demonizing. There are even wars planned, and dark judgments justified by the self-righteous fanatics. But none of that means good can't also triumph. None of that means good cannot rise up against hatred, against judgment, against the armies of Hell itself, and bring about a tidal wave of joy and love. Evil does, but good always is.”
Source: The Papal Visitor
“It's an unwritten and widely unacknowledged fact, that land always ends up belonging to the most violent.”
Source: The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
“It's an unwritten rule that best friends take care of each other, and best friends' husbands understand.”
Source: The Status of All Things
“It’s annoying to be given a lame excuse, especially when you’re not owed an explanation.”
“It's another bad habit of mine, talking too much, asking too many questions. It's probably the same reason I lie: to fill the silence, keep people from walking away.”
Source: Count My Lies
“It’s another day and I’m alive and so are you. Isn’t that wonderful?”
“It's another one of those moments where you remember why it is that you're doing this voyage in the first place. And another realization occurs - there's a very real possibility that someone from each of these places has stood in front of this very sign. You brush away a few more tears, as you stare into a beautiful setting sun. And then you do further research on this very sign and realize that the dedication took place not even three years ago and that it is then likely that only a few of these cities have stood in front of this very sign...”
Source: The Shades Of: The Mother Road: Crossroads of The American Dream
“It's Apicius-Style Duck. Enjoy."
Apicius-Style Duck is a dish said to have been a favorite of a famous seventeenth-century Italian gourmand.
The recipe calls for duck breasts to be roasted and then have the skin side coated in spices and a caramelized honey glaze.
"Look at how the caramelized honey gleams!"
"The layer of spices crusting the outer skin smells amazing too!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 11 [Shokugeki no Souma 11]
“It's appealing to slowly peal it off.”
“It’s April 2006. It’s a Saturday. I’m walking through a market in Seoul, Korea, having a very public screaming match with a young Chinese-Korean woman whom I have recently promoted to Asia-Pacific Regional Manager. Despite the promotion, she is not happy. I think she wants my job. Right now, I’d happily give it to her if it would shut her up and calm me down. If I’d wanted a screaming match, I could have stayed at home; no, correct that, I’ve never had a domestic dispute as loud and unpleasant as this is turning out to be.”
Source: There's No Business Like International Business: Business Travel – But Not As You Know It
“It’s art. And it makes people happy. And that’s a very good thing. We have this problem in our culture. We take art that appeals to women—film, books, music—and we undervalue it. We assume it can’t be high art. Especially if it’s not dark and tortured and wailing. And it follows that much of that art is created by other women, and so we undervalue them as well. We wrap it up in a pretty pink package and resist calling it art.”
Source: The Idea of You
“It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upon a time, innocent and wonderfully naïve, as authentically pure as a human can be.”
Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
“It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.”