I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s essential your protagonist is memorable, regardless of whether readers want to be them, date them, or destroy them. After all, in order to reach your plot, a reader must first fall in love with the characters.”
Source: Prompt Me to Write: 1,000 Writing Prompts & 100 Exercises
“It's eternal youth, in other words, or old age—depending on what age you decided to 'bookmark.”
Source: Changing Masks
“It’s even more awkward when we’re face to face with people. It used to be exciting to make plans with friends because you could sit and catch up and talk about what’s been going on in your lives. Now when you see someone there’s nothing left to say. You’ve already seen the pictures from their trip to Rio on Facebook. You’ve read their tweets about the latest diet they’re on. And they already texted you about the pregnancy scare. So you end up just sitting and staring at each other until you both start texting other people.”
“It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.”
Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
“It’s every girl’s dream to talk with those who met horrific endings so you can solve their murder!”
Source: Spirit Guide
“It’s everything I imagined kissing him would feel like. Radiation, explosives, dynamite. Anything and everything dangerous.”
Source: Verity
“It's everywhere and yet nowhere
In the eyes of a child
In your smile, even if it's mild
It's in the imperceptible dew of the dawn
It's in the ambience of a freshly cut lawn.
Yet how selfish I would be if I would be talking about it only in the sight sense
Voice...my second love
Voices in which I can dove
Forever and never come out
It's not only what beauty is about
And yet a shame on all of us
We still chose that face
As the only place to admire beauty”
“It's evident which drawing came from which mind," Johnny said with a small grin, and certainly, the pâte de verre flowers and spiraling tiers of Sylvie's cake said "Sugar Fair" as distinctly as the clean lines and elegant piping pointed to De Vere's. "But..."
But at the essential level, the cakes were remarkably similar. They had both chosen a stained-glass effect, constructed entirely from blown sugar, each tier designed to catch the light and cast a shimmering cascade of color. Peony poppies, primroses, and petunias glittered within the sugar glass.
And on the highest tier, the Midnight Elixir cake, they had both incorporated a trinity knot.”
Source: Battle Royal
“It's evil, Jo. It exists in all forms of life and death.”
Source: Deep in the Hollow
“It’s exceedingly difficult for employees to have the company’s back when they can’t trust the company to have theirs. Actually, it’s impossible.”
Source: Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
“It's excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!”
“It’s exciting to watch young children read poetry for the first time. You can sense the wheels turning and you just know their brain is doing this wonderful thing called learning. It’s magical!”
“It's exhausting always being right.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“It’s exhausting and fruitless to live by motivation and willpower alone. You’ll only fail yourself, time and again. You’ll have all your goals and all your intentions, and you’ll watch them get higher and higher and more out of reach. Your ideal life and your actual life will start to diverge more and more, and you’ll feel that distance to be an indictment of your weakness and smallness of character.”
Source: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
“It's exhausting, isn't it? It's almost like the government wants to keep people divided. 'If they're shouting at each other, they can't shout at us.”
“It's exhausting to fight against the waves, but when you flow with them, the journey becomes lighter. Still, there are times you must go against the current, because not every wave leads where you need to go. Sometimes, you don't get to choose, you have to move.”
“It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy.”
Source: The Silver Chair
“It's extraordinary how many people have a postviral syndrome that's very strikingly similar to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.”
“It's extremely difficult to deal with mind & soul complexion.”
“It's extremely easy and convenient to worship a giant, but when a giant is born in your own home, it becomes an inconvenience.”
“It's extremely illogical how attacking a man dressed as a women is a hate crime, but attacking an actual woman is not; many trannies are built like brick shit houses (albeit ones which have bad wigs perched atop them) and therefore more than capable of fighting back.”
Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials
“It’s extremely unlikely you will be magically transformed from a mediocre or average people manager to a Satya Nadella or a Ratan Tata. You will often revert to type and repeat your bad behaviors. But if you become aware of this retrogressive behavior and can reduce the frequency and severity of this you can change over time, not overnight.”
Source: Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager
“It's fair to assume that racists are stupid and ignorant. Intelligent people wouldn't ignore the obvious fact. The fact is that we're all similar. We all deserve to be treated with dignity.”
“It's fair to say that men of all classes, creeds, and political colours frequently stand united over the broken body of the universal woman, Their squabbles frequently forgotten.”
Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials
“It's faith that will take you through and determination that will drive you.”
Source: Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love
“It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.”
Source: Killosophy
“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
“It's far better to die while living than to live while dying.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“It's far easier to reel off lists of shops, and retreats, and job titles than it is to engage with the process of self-discovery, which isn't always easy to articulate and, sorry, it's just that we don't really have time to wait around for every little thought and feeling to be considered, expressed, and shared. There are more important things to be done and bought and planned for, and more important people waiting around who are more ready, willing, and able to be reduced to the confines of their stuff, and things, and shit.”
Source: A Room Called Earth
“It's far too easy to forget, miss or not appreciate the tiny things a partner does every single day, but should you wait until it's over or they've gone to miss who they were?”
Source: The Occasional Swearing Of Hitched Perrin
“It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.”
Source: The Good Dream
“It’s fascinating, really, when you think about it. How a person can slip into a new life as one would a new pair of shoes. At first there’s a keen awareness of the fit: a stiffness at the heel, the binding of the width, the curve pressed to the arch. But with time and enough steps, the feel becomes so natural you almost forget you’re wearing them at all.”
Source: The Edge of Lost
“It's fashionable among progressives to wonder why so many "red state" voters don't vote in their own economic interests. This is simply another symptom of 18th-century rationalism, which assumes that everyone is rational and rationality means seeking self-interest. [...] People are not 18th-century reason machines. Real reason works differently. Reason matters, and we have to understand how it really works.”
Source: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
“It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds”
“It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork,‘ he said. "We've got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon's about to break and we're wearing... we're wearing... sort of things, like glass, only dark... dark glass things on our eyes...”
Source: Moving Pictures
“It's filled with magic that's how I know if something's real.”
“It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.”
“It's finding time to be alone in a quiet place and simply focusing inwards on yourself, your dreams, your hopes, your prayers, and your aspirations. Finding solitude is the practice of the prophets of God. It's where they found solace with their Creator and received their great revelations.”
Source: The Productive Muslim: Where Faith Meets Productivity
“It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,”
Source: Over the Woodward Wall
“It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind”
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“It’s fine to go offline. You won’t lose your place in the world. And once you practice it and get good at it, I predict you’ll move a step farther from thinking, “It’s fine,” to realizing, “It’s divine!” The more you log off, the more you’ll realize how fabulously freeing it truly is.”
Source: Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional
“It’s five-sixths muscle memory, as you know. When muscle memory takes over, the heart can start to sing its song. Until then, you’re stymied. You’re just going through the motions.”
“It’s foolish to buy something that’s overpriced; more foolish, if it’s unnecessary; and even more foolish, to buy it on credit.”
“It's foolish to expect doors to open for you if you have closed doors for others."
-Terraine Francois”
“It's foolish to fight the bond between you. You'd be better off going with it and letting the panties drop where they may.”
Source: Under His Skin
“It's for my friends! For seven years...all that time...they waited for us! It was hard on them... They had sad times... They got humiliated, but they just endured it... And kept protecting the guild... It's for my friends! I want to show them...that Fairy Tail will live on!! That's why I gotta move forward!!”
“It’s for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn’t go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can’t shake the persistent, needling feeling that I’ve forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever.”
“It’s for the best. Thanks for being my friends.
Goodbye.”
“It's forbidden to bite a woman's arse. In the absence of a legal precedent, the Imams decided to apply human law to the guilty monkey, whoever it turned out to be. They narrowed it down to Bosco or Shin Bone. The victim was unable to distinguish one monkey from the other.”
Source: Persianality
“It’s forced me to slow down, to stop rushing about, to look and listen. To really notice things. And I’ve realized that actually the countryside is far more alive and invigorating than any city. I mean, just look at that landscape.”
Source: One Good Thing