I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s easy to point out someone else’s mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most people—except the lucky few like ourselves—are forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn to justify their mistakes, build on them, until they can look back and convince themselves that their mistake was inevitable all along, a good choice, in fact. An unwed teenage mother can look back at her unexpected pregnancy fondly six years down the road once the child’s out of her hair and in school all day. She wouldn’t dare go back and fix that mistake because it’s become part of her life.”
Source: The Repeat Year
“It’s easy to put the links between the increases in mental illness, depression, ADHD, and the like, with the speed of the modern world. People never get the chance to do nothing, or when they do, they lack the control to prevent their mind from racing off in a thousand different directions. So much so that their doing nothing becomes a thousand different things and the thousand different things becomes stress, anxiety, worry and fear. Left untreated these simple everyday things become well entrenched in our psyches and start to dominate our lives. We have a chronic addiction with doing and we love to use our busyness as a stamp of our hard work and hectic lives and we get stuck in this busy trap of always doing.”
Source: Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
“It’s easy to rebuke each other’s opinions, but can we honor each other’s pain? Can we make the effort to see beyond the portraits we’ve painted of one another, and to connect to the humanity that thrives beneath our own assumptions? Can we be relentless in our desire to tear down walls, and to build bridges? Can we be brave and stay committed to the conversations that need to be had?
The only thing I know about these questions is that I need to replace the we with I, and begin to answer them from there.
One thing I know for sure: I want to become the example I wish to see in others. That's a good place to start.
Another thing I know for sure: I love you. You're beautiful. You rock.”
“It's easy to remember, because dating rhymes with mating, and they're almost the same [...] So your mom thinks we're ma-- Uh, dating?”
Source: Of Poseidon
“It's easy to roam if you have an anchor. - Clive Hollowel”
Source: Rescue Me
“It's easy to romanticize the people in our lives that mean something to us. We elevate them onto a higher plane that the rest of humanity. They appear glorious and pristine and full of wonders of the Universe all wrapped up into one person-sized box waiting to be unpacked. It's easy to forget, when they appear perfect in every way and in every facet of their lives with every action they take, in the end they are still human. And we duly forget being human comes with an inherent composition of flaws in our genetic and mental make-up.”
Source: Never Have I Ever
“It's easy to run when people have someone to cheer for them but it's extremely difficult to run when you have no one cheer. But that's the reason why you must win the game. To earn the respect, applause's, cause everyone can't born with them.”
“It's easy to say forget and forgive. You can completely forget and forgive only when you reach at your destination and look back and see that it all happened for good.”
“It’s easy to say you’re over someone when you’re with someone new”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“It’s easy to see how far you are from your desired outcome. It’s easy to see that you are not the man you want to be. The easy thing is not always the best thing. It’s also easy to get discouraged about the marathon that you are only a fifth of the way through.
Instead of focusing solely on the hard work and pain ahead of you, take the time to celebrate the steps you have made, the milestones you have passed.”
“It's easy to see the faults of others
But hard to see one's own.
One sifts out the faults of others like chaff
But conceals one's own,
As a cheat conceals a bad throw of the dice.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“It's easy to side with the top dogs? But, we gain credit/karma points for siding with the poor. And just because some of us are poor, does not mean we are poor in spirit.”
Source: Adoption Stories
“It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see edges and lines where smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
“It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
“It’s easy to speak of betrayal. But to betray somebody you need an opportunity, and once you have it you’ve got to take it. It’s like opening a window in jail. Everybody would like to, but you don’t often get the chance.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s easy to spot a hero. They’re the ones who refuse the title.”
“It's easy to take the time to stop and smell the roses but one must be willing to give of themselves enough to also stop to admire and understand life's weeds.
Colleen Dougherty 10/2015”
“It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“It’s easy to tell someone something you know they want to hear. What’s not so easy is following up on those easy words and making what you said come to life. It’s in taking the words and turning them into actions where most people give up and bail out.”
Source: Hear Me Now
“It’s easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.”
Source: Last Chance To See
“It’s easy to think that if we had a different house, different car, different job, different relationship, different city, everything would be different; that we would feel different then.
The problem is, you are the main character in the story that is your life. No matter how much you alter the setting of that story, you can’t escape from yourself. There are many factors which contribute to your experience on this planet, but ultimately, you are the one creating your experience here. In order to get to the life you are here to live, you must begin by becoming the person you are here to become.”
Source: How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
“It's easy to think that people will like you more if you do whatever they tell you to do, but it's quite the opposite. People don't appreciate pushovers - they use them.”
Source: Impossible Is Stupid
“It’s easy to throw judgment at someone who’s struggling down a difficult path, but walking that road is altogether a different thing.”
“It’s easy to un-love the devil;
Remind yourself all he ever was, all he will ever be.
A Jekyll. A Poison.
Heart the color of the blackest night.
A tongue full of wicked lies and tasteless deception.
Teeth ready to tear into his next victim’s heart.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“It's easy to want change, but far more difficult to find ways to achieve it. And impossible to achieve it when those in power want the status quo, which is why I dream no further than finding a way to extract myself from these circumstances.”
Source: The Inadequate Heir
“It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.”
“It’s easy when you know the solution.”
“Many of the best traps are simple,” Annabeth said. “You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn’t.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment.”
Source: That Thing We Call a Heart
“It's effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It's challenging to let go of someone you care about and it's exceedingly difficult to let go of an ideal and a belief in someone because what exacerbates the disappointment of finding out they weren't who they presented themselves to be, is the betrayal of it.”
“It's eighth grade - laugh or be laughed at.”
Source: Ode to a Nobody
“It's either in writing or it's nothing.”
Source: The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!
“It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)”
Source: You're Never Weird on the Internet
“It's either true or it's not.”
Source: Rock 'n Roll Weekend: A Novel by Marie Bannon
“It’s either you are converting your time or not”
“It's embarrassing to be human.”
“It's embarrassing when a leader is clueless about his/her limitations (blind spots) while his/her people are well aware and making fun out of them.”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“It's emotions. Sometimes you feel, sometimes you don't. You can't force yourself into feeling something, can you?”
Source: The Awakening Wisdom of Life: Probably the best Quotation Book in the world
“It’s empowering to be the one holding someone else up. It makes you feel strong. Maybe even stronger than you are.”
Source: Forever, Interrupted
“It's enough already - we can’t keep sacrificing lives of our siblings, of our children, of our friends at the borders, simply to appease the nationalist insecurities of a handful of brain-less chimps.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“It's enough to be born alone and die alone... so better look for a companion who will join you in that great adventure called life...”
“It’s enough to know that a good book has more than one skin, and should be a building with several storeys. Just having a ground floor isn’t enough for a book. It’s fine for civil engineering, and comfortable for anyone who dislikes stairs, and useful for those who can’t cope with stairs at all, but literature needs storeys to be piled one on top of the other. Stairs and staircases, with words above and words below.”
Source: الكتب التي التهمت والدي
“It's entirely possible that every time we make a decision, there's a version of us out there somewhere who made a different choice. An infinite number of versions of ourselves are living out the consequences of every single possibility of our lives.”
Source: Maybe in Another Life
“It's entirely possible that there are memories you have buried or repressed, memories formed when you were too young to have a conscious recollection of them, that Brother Jeremiah can reach. It could help us a great deal.”
Source: City of Bones
“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.”
“It's Esmé Squalor!" an Elder cried. "She used to be the city's sixth most successful financial advisor, but now she works with Count Olaf!"
"I heard the two of them are dating!" Mrs. Morrow said in horror.
"We are dating!" Esmé cried in triumph. She climbed aboard Olaf's motorcycle and tossed her helmet to the ground, showing that she cared no more about motorcycle safety than she did about the welfare of crows.”
Source: The Vile Village
“It’s especially galling to be the Millennial who’s expected to pay over decades of hard-won life savings and anything the bank will lend, for the privilege of buying a structure in need of a full renovation or rebuild. That is assuming, of course, that the local development authority agrees to take part in the pantomime.”
Source: A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir
“It’s essential for patent applications. Showing the roads you traveled and the work you put into testing, experimentation, and trials to realize your final product is part of your narrative—your patent story.”
Source: The IP Miracle: How to Transform Ideas into Assets that Multiply Your Business
“It’s essential to be comfortable asking for advice or help — after all, there is a reason we have dozens of different specialists that come together to work on a film project.”
“It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning”
“It’s Essential You Don’t Let the Rules of The World Throttle Your Imagination”.”