I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's as if all the beauties of the world were put there like an ornament to make us forget death!”
“It’s as if all the pleasures of life are packed in the female frames for the favored to savour them”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It’s as if Dr. Faircloth reached over the pond and plucked it out of the English countryside. I distinctly remember hearing Ben use the word “shed” when we walked into it, and I ignored him the way you do when you’re trying to stay married.”
Source: Nora Goes Off Script
“It's as if every classroom has its own pied piper luring children away from their parents, from their own desires—from whatever they'd known to be true before entering that school building. Who gave them the right to access our minds? Why did they think they had that authority? We were innocent children!”
Source: Reparations Mind
“It's as if, from the vantage point of a verandah bed, that great expanse of sky rolls in over us from the very edge of existence.”
Source: The Orchard
“It’s as if he’s trodden in my footsteps, seen what I’ve seen, felt what I’ve felt, as I’ve criss-crossed the moors countless times.”
Source: The Stolen Child
“It’s as if her whole body is endued with a magnetic layer to keep the male gaze glued to her, isn’t it? If not, how can one explain her dusky complexion?”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It's as if his chest is a match and my fingers create the friction necessary to light him on fire.”
Source: Broken
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me... And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die!"
"So what's it all about? What's it for? It's not possible. It's not possible that life could have been as senseless and sickening as this. And if it has really been as sickening and senseless as this why do I have to die, and die in agony? There's something wrong. Maybe I didn't live as I should have done?" came the sudden thought. "But how can that be when I did everything properly?" he wondered, instantly dismissing as a total impossibility the one and only solution to the mystery of life and death.”
“It's as if I have my own persona satan trolling at my shoulder, sowing doubt at every turn. The little divil sprays emotional graffiti all over the walls of my self-respect. But the little divil is me, so why would I put myself through this?”
Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
“It’s as if I’ve crossed an invisible threshold,
and now the idea of staying where I was feels impossible,
as though my soul has already leapt ahead,
leaving the rest of me to catch up.”
“it's as if I've interrupted something
that was falling in a straight line from the eye of God”
Source: Falling Awake
“It’s as if Mindfulness stretches our bandwidth to include
other people in our thoughts, even when we’re busy, and
reminds us again and again not to just think of ourselves.”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“It’s as if nothing makes sense until you’re sad.”
“It's as if our being academic equals means we must be inadequate wives and mothers,' says Noura.
All of these girls have been called 'intimidating' and 'outspoken' by their Muslim counterparts, simply for being themselves. Their accomplishments usually leave men feeling emasculated, they say.
'It's still going to take Muslim men a couple more generations to catch up and realise girls like us want love, not money,' says Ayesha.”
“It’s as if our bodies know the secret that we don’t wish to admit yet.”
Source: My Pinup Girl
“It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.”
Source: Orphan Train
“It's as if she understood completely the condition of loneliness and how it undermines us all, forcing us to make choices that we know are wrong for us.”
Source: The Heart's Invisible Furies
“It's as if somebody has copied and pasted Yuka Ito into a different document and then edited her, like a human game of Spot the Difference.”
Source: Forever Geek
“It’s as if we’ve stepped into a Constable painting, a bucolic vision of England. There’s a single oak ahead of us in the heart of the valley; the grass is lime-green and the steep sides of the Cotswold escarpment are covered in dense woodland.”
Source: My Mother's Secret
“It's as if we were both digging into each other's soul to find a self that was put there before we were born.”
Source: Weymouth Sands
“It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.”
Source: Mrs. Miniver
“It’s as predictable as the tide and the moon. It ebbs and flows. Death comes and it goes.”
“It’s as predictable as the tide and the moon. It ebbs and flows. Death comes and it goes."
- THE WICKED DEEP”
“It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.”
“It's as though all the strings between the almighty and this man were ripped away, and he was left, a discarded marionette lying in the middle of the street. He gazes up at me and his smirk freezes the marrow in my bones. His bones, not mine, belong at Kudamm. It wasn't only Nazis who prohibited the crippled from begging. There have been others repulsed by the gaze of less-than-romantic possibilities of what we are.”
Source: Berlin
“It's as though he walked into my heart, a place meant only for him, tore down the walls I'd built, and set my soul ablaze.”
Source: The Legend of Tilsim Hoshruba
“It's as though human emotions have speed limits, and their tipping points vary depending on the person and which cog(nitive) gear is set: So typically, men go off the rails briefly when they're furious, whereas women, when they're frightened; but children while excited.”
“It's as though I'm sitting in the audience caught up in a well-made film.”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“It’s as though it is in the nature of woman to value herself by the worth of her man more than her own self-worth”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It’s as though men are prone to policing their wives than husbanding them; so, as though to celebrate the poetic justice to their predicament, won’t women turn gleeful whenever they cuckold their caretakers?”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It's as though she is whole again in my arms, reunited with the ghost of her father and held in the arms of her Enforcer. And when she kisses me, long and fierce, I realize how happily I'd live the rest of my life at the end of a blade. So long as she is the one holding it.”
Source: Fearless
“It’s as though they (emotionally immature people) think they’re off the hook if others don’t spell out their pain or difficulty in words. They believe that they aren’t required to be tuned in to others’ feelings. However, emotionally mature people are almost always sensitive to others, knowing this is simply part of having good relationships.”
Source: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
“It's as though we loved our past, but our past didn't love us. So we go on strike and pretend we don't care, as if to punish fate for being unkind. Fate never cares, of course, so we only hurt ourselves.”
Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It
“It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that is no longer is there.”
“It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that no longer is there.”
Source: Crossing
“It's asking us our names," Falkor reported.
"I'm Atreyu!" Atreyu cried.
"I'm Falkor!" cried Falkor.
The boy without a name was silent.
Atreyu looked at him, then took him by the hand and cried: "He's Bastian Balthazar Bux!"
"It asks," Falkor translated, "why he doesn't speak for himself."
"He can't," said Atreyu. "He has forgotten everything."
Falkor listened again to the roaring of the fountain.
"Without memory, it says, he cannot come in. The snakes won't let him through."
Atreyu replied: "I have stored up everything he told us about himself and his world. I vouch for him."
Falkor listened.
"It wants to know by what right?"
"I am his friend," said Atreyu.”
Source: The Neverending Story
“It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.”
Source: Editha
“It’s at that exact second I realize—in a rush, like a wave crashing all around me—I have fallen in love. I am head over heels in love with Chase Gartner.”
Source: I Stand Before You
“It's autumn," I said. "I can see the trees turning through the windows."
He tucked a strand of hair behind my ear.
"It's going to be the Day of the Dead soon," I said.
"Sounds gruesome."
"It's a festival." I looked at him over my shoulder. "The only one that gentry and peasants share. We celebrate Persephone going down to Hades for the winter, they remember Tom-a-Lone getting his head cut off by Nanny-Anna. Everybody makes grave offerings, then there's a great sacrifice to Hades and Persephone, and that night there's a bonfire and they burn a straw Tom-a-Lone dressed up in ribbons.”
Source: Cruel Beauty
“It's autumn. The trees look like a copper blanket, their plot-like leaves never stop falling- just like my heart does for you.”
Source: The loneliness of the Fox
“It's awful. Every day I see buses full of kids arriving. They come from the poor areas, you can tell... first they convince them that the afterlife is even better than Disneyland, then they put them in a trance with all their songs... it's nuts! They hypnotize them and just toss them into battle. Absolute carnage. The key to paradise was for poor people. Thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefield with their keys around their necks.”
Source: Persepolis
“It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster.”
Source: The Beginning of Everything
“It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It’s like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, 'You stupid ass, just wait a minute,' and she’ll open her eyes! 'Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don’t die this time!' But they always do.”
Source: Code Name Verity
“It’s awful, writing such terrible things about the person you love, but I’ll take a pen and paper over a psychiatrist’s chair any day of the week. This is my therapy.”
“It’s awfully difficult to be ‘right’ when you don’t have all the information.”
Source: Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
“It’s awfully hard to be happy when you feel you’re not worthy enough for those feelings. You’ve been knocked down so many times happiness to you is an unnatural state of mind. Lose the fake smile, get up and get rid of the toxic reasons you’re unhappy, no matter, who, or what’s standing in your way. Time to get real!”
“It's awkward, isn't it?" he said.
"What's that?" I replied, my voice far too breathy.
"These moments when we're not hating each other.”
Source: Dance of Thieves
“It’s awkward to wake up one day to see the trumpet working hard to lead in the shoes of the microphone. You can only lead where you can function better!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.”