I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's better to keep some people in your heart rather than in your life.”
“It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead”
Source: Ember Falls
“It's better to lose than to never have had.”
Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“It’s better to make baby steps in the right direction than big steps in the wrong direction!”
“It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.”
Source: The Flame Bearer
“It's better to not talk to some people rather than forcing them to talk.”
“It’s better to run towards something good, than away from something bad.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.”
“It’s better to speak the truth than to get caught hiding it.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“It’s better to speak up and argue than to let silence build anger inside.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“It’s better to stand alone, with honor, than compromise your values to fit in.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“It's better to swallow pride than blood.”
Source: Some Kind of Wonderful
“It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero”
“It's better to use science to apply science than to use common sense to apply a great idea.”
“It's better to wake up than fall back asleep in a town with no dreams.”
Source: This Town Sleeps
“It's better to walk alone rather than forcing someone to walk with you.”
“It's better to write something, anything, than to starve the monster. The monster must feed. And it will feed on your soul if not your words. Its appetite is insatiable. Write to save yourself from the monster.”
“It's between her ears
and not between her thighs
where her sensuality lives.
Touch her there.”
“It’s beyond your consciousness that your soul lingers with the person you love and hence your mood will affect the one you love. This is the reason why you sometimes sense your mood changing mysteriously with no reason.”
“It's bitter but a reality;
Money can't buy everything,
But it can buy most of the things”
“It's bitterly ironic that we place astronomical value on the increasing age of inanimate paintings, antiques, cars, wines and memorabilia while failing to appreciate and adequately compensate the priceless life experience and wisdom that comes with human maturity.”
“It's bizarre, but as disgusting and evil and terrible as the Wolfman is, I can't help but feel he's unable to control himself. It seems to me he makes up bizarre excuses to make it okay for him to kill and rape, because he can't stop himself from killing and raping. Whether born or made, the Wolfman is more creature than human. He's a monster.”
Source: Ruthless
“It's bizarre! But it is the way the world is.”
“It's bizarre how we compliment eachother by saying "You look younger than what you are". I mean, can't we just be proud of our age and not constantly at war with a natural phenomenon?”
“It’s bold attending a funeral that you were the cause of.”
Source: Murder On The Run: An Urban Novelette
“It’s boring.”
“Oh,” I said. I rubbed at my jaw. “You think I should have gone four-color?”
Bob stared at me for a second and said, “I have nightmares about Hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”
I glowered up at the skull and nodded. “Okay, fine. You think it needs more drama.”
“More anything. Drama would do. Or breasts.”
I sighed and saw where that line of thought was going. “I am not going to hire a leggy secretary, Bob. Get over it.”
“I didn’t say anything about legs. But as long as we’re on the subject . . .”
Source: Side Jobs
“It's both a tremendous obligation and honor to undertake the unfulfilled work of the best of our abolitionist precursors--those who did not only want the abolition of white supremacist slavery and normalized anti-Black violence, but who also recognized that the greatest promise of abolitionism was a comprehensive transformation of a civilization in which the sanctity of white civil society was defined by its capacity to define 'community' and 'safety' through the effective of its ability to wage racial genocides. The present day work of (..) abolition has to proceed with organic recognition of its historical roots in liberation struggles against slavery, colonization, and conquest--and therefore struggle to constantly develop effective, creative, and politically educating forms of radical movement against the genocidal white supremacist state and the society to which it's tethered.”
“It's both an alternative history of the novel and a history of the alternative novel.”
Source: The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
“It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective”
“It's braver and more honorable to turn back than to forge forward into uncertain terrain. Snowboarding is about living, not about dying.”
Source: The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
“It’s braver to stay. It takes courage to stay. I am sure I speak for all the single people here when I say that I don’t want to ever lack that courage. I don’t want to lose my best friend and my true love, just because I wanted to
stay in control and not take a risk. Even if they walked away, even if
they ran to the other side of the world, even if I thought that I didn't have a chance in hell, I still want to know that I did everything I could
to make it happen.”
Source: A Girl Like You
“It’s bravery to show your love, this is the grandeur of love.”
Source: Norina Luciano
“it’s breathtaking…
how your heart just. spills.
out of you…
so achingly soft,
and so chaotically unsure,
but as if the entire world
catches fire
and you’re wanting to just be
so in love with it all…
you have a breathtaking
wildfire heart”
“It's bright pinky-white sand was made entirely of shell dust, like star dust, among which, if you sifted it with your fingers, were infant shells as small as the grains but perfectly shaped. Scattered over the surface were larger shells of many kinds and shapes, some as delicate as flower petals, others, though small, built to withstand any battering sea.”
Source: The Sea Egg
“It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.”
“It's bums on seats that spread the desire for tight fitting jeans.”
“It’s burning, but it’s not burning me up. I’m feeling it, but it’s not killing me. I think about how powerful it is, and how strong that must mean that I am.”
Source: The Art of Feeling
“It's burnt.”
Source: Charlotte
“It's by recognizing our flaws that we can strengthen them, recognizing where flowers came from that we can hope not to burn down the only home we ever knew.”
“It's called a culling song. In some ancient culture, they sang it to children during famines or droughts, anytime the tribe had outgrown its land. It was sung to warriors injured in accidents or the very old or anyone dying. It was used to end misery and pain. It's a lullaby.”
Source: Lullaby
“It's called a culling song. In some ancient cultures, they sang it to children during famines or droughts, anytime the tribe had outgrown its land. It was sung to warriors injured in accidents or the very old or anyone dying. It was used to end misery and pain. It's a lullaby.”
Source: Lullaby
“It’s called a hug, Pel said. People beyond the Mists, people who love each other, hug all the time. It’s like sharing thoughts, only with your arms.”
Source: The Abode
“It’s called a repository spell. Makes something bigger on the inside than on the outside. Works great for bags, barrels, hats, just about anything really, even a 1963 police box.”
Source: Race to Til-Thorin
“It's called a time horizon- a sense of how much time we have remaining. For teenagers, it's vast. It's infinite. But as we get older, it shortens and shortens- and we can't help but feel it. As it shrinks, it makes everything more precious. We appreciate the days more because there are fewer of them to come. And it's really true. I felt it so much today. How fast it all goes. How much we have to be thankful for. What a miracle each breath is.”
Source: The Love Haters
“It’s called an ‘accomplishment’, not an ‘intent-ishment’. You’ve got to BE it to SEE it. NO MORE EXCUSES - Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there!”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“It’s called an artichoke” Lexi told him. “It’s good for you.”
“Good for you how? I mean the choke part I get”
Source: Emergence
“It’s called an inner voice for a reason. It’s the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It’s the one voice in your life that isn’t tampered by other’s biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does.”
“It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason; it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.”
“It’s called due diligence,” explained God.
“Truly? You? Due diligence?”
“Sure. Why not me? If you were planning to smite a town, would you not wish to dot the i's and cross the t's?”
Source: Sodom: A Modern Biblical Tale
“It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.”