I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“it’s hard; but try
cause a mess cannot marry doubt.
i recommend a search in your tears,
no need to nude
for good music, will be in your ears.”
Source: Black Love: Has Slavery Really Stopped? Poems & Paintings
“It's hard enough bein' people as it is, without other people coming and messin' you around.”
“It's hard enough judging the motives of people who live in our own times, let alone the motives of those who've been dead three hundred years. They can't come back and tell us, can they?”
Source: The Winter Sea
“It’s hard enough maintaining the charade of a fake relationship; now I have some mystery trespasser wreaking havoc.”
Source: Lovelight Farms
“It's hard for a bad person to do good, and it's hard for a good person to do bad.”
“It's hard for a parent to accept that you can't protect your child from everything."
"It's hard for a child to accept it too," says Elsa, and pats him on the cheek.”
Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“It’s hard for committed person to skip and run from the situation.”
“It’s hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I’m bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life is going to be very long because each instant is. The impression is that I’m still to be born and I can’t quite manage it.”
“It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war.”
“It’s hard for men like him to accept the supernatural. They’re used to following rigid scientific frameworks. They often think with their minds, not with their hearts.”
Source: Cupid's Serenade
“It's hard for most of us to admit that the relationship isn't complicated, I am.”
“It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past.”
“It's hard," he said after a long moment. "Trusting the Maker."
Grandfather nodded solemnly. "Yes. But I think not trusting him would be harder.”
Source: Chief Bladesinger
“It’s hard, isn’t it? But it was always drummed into us during training that the patients and their families are the absolute priority. And our own feelings come way down the list.”
Source: Changing Seasons for the Country Nurse
“It's hard, isn't it? Trusting others with the whole of you?"
She smiles bitterly and shakes her head. "It's so much easier to lie. You know that. You lie too.”
Source: Even If We Break
“It’s hard keeping a secret… even when it’s your own.”
“It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“It’s hard not to be afraid while I’m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn’t touched me yet.
Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness.
That’s bad enough. The Book of Shhh also tells stories of those who died because of love lost or never found, which is what terrifies me the most.
The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.”
Source: Delirium
“It’s hard not to be inspired and hopeful listening to these young women’s dreams. The girls are already knowledgeable about some of the headwinds that they will face when they open the door to Brotopia. I didn’t feel comfortable telling them about the others. They’ll find out soon enough. What they made clearer than ever was this: The next generation is coming. They expect to have rewarding careers in tech, and they dream of making a dent in the universe, just as the early founders did. When they open the door, let’s welcome them. And change the Valley—and the world—for them and for all.”
Source: Brotopya: Silikon Vadisi'nin Erkekler Kulübünü Dagitmak
“It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.”
“It's hard not to like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.”
Source: The Book Thief
“It's hard not to look sneaky when you're sneaking.”
Source: Undead Girl Gang
“It’s hard not to smile when you’re going eyeball to eyeball with a frosted chocolate cupcake.”
Source: What Flowers Remember
“It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself.”
“It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.”
“It’s hard, since Noah, not to see a rainbow as a sign of hope.”
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“It's hard to accept, but you can't change the past. You can't go back and manipulate things to the way you wanted them to happen. Because life'd be meaningless and boring and just not worth living. But you can change the future and that's a beautiful thing about life. Yes, you will make mistakes. And yes, you will have bad days, but as long as you let the past go, you'll have such a gorgeous and bright future ahead of you. Knowing that things were meant to happen. Knowing that each day you will learn something so that you keep growing to be a better person. Life is like a rope, twined in all its complexities and yet weaved into one marvelous stream that you have the chance you use something amazing from. So grab hold of it.”
“It's hard to accept that life always marches forward, isn't it? Always forward, never back. I was forced to change when my life suddenly changed around me, but even if it hadn't, I'd have changed in one way or another sooner enough, wouldn't I? Because people do, don't they, no one stays the same forever. Everything is just so fragile, isn't it? We make our decisions dependent on the day, the weather, our mood, the phases of the moon, what we had for breakfast”
Source: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
“It's hard to admit that a marriage might be over when the love is still there. People are led to believe that a marriage ends only when the love has been lost; when anger replaces happiness when contempt replaces bliss. But Graham and I aren't angry with each other, we're just not the same people we used to be.”
“It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right.”
“It's hard to argue over money when a girl flashes you her pussy.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York
“it's hard to be a faithful wife, in short,
To certain husbands of a certain sort”
Source: TARTUFFE
“It's hard to be a widow.
People are afraid of me.
They don't know what to say.
Who knows what to say?
I don't know what to say.”
“It’s hard to be different,” Scarborough said. “And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.”
Source: Openly Straight
“It’s hard to be free and clear for whatever comes along when you’re not making room for anything to come along.”
Source: The Royal We
“It’s hard to be mad, watching the rare humor shared between them. When was the last time I saw them joke with each other? When was the last time their smiles echoed each other’s? Something unclenches in my heart to witness it: the familiarity of long cohabitation, the bonds forged outside of Oaths and despite of them, the wavelength of understanding tuned to the frequency of Sel and Nick.”
Source: Bloodmarked
“It's hard to be young and flawed, especially in a judgmental age. (Of Course, every age is a judgmental age, a humans stay humans; it's just that we move the judgments around like furniture when we want the room to feel bigger.)”
Source: The Life Impossible
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
“It's hard to beat signaling equilibria - because they're 'multi-factor markets' - which are special cases of coordination problems that create 'inferior Nash equilibria' - which are so stuck in place that market controllers can seek rent on the value generated by captive participants.”
Source: Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
“It's Hard To Beat Somebody That Doesn't Quit.
Don't Quit. Evolve.”
“It's hard to beat someone who never quits
-Benny Ho”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“It's hard to believe that it will ever be better," Bambi's mother sighed. Aunt Ena sighed too. "It's hard to believe that it was ever any better," she said. "And yet," Marena said, looking in front of her, "I always think how beautiful it was before.”
Source: Bambi: A Life in the Woods
“It's hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.”
“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.”
“It’s hard to believe we’re worthy of affection, that another person can see past the flaws we magnify in our minds and love us regardless”
Source: Vow of Hell
“It's hard to breathe. I know now: The moment when everything really falls apart--it's not during the big explosion. It's in the quiet after. And the feeling is not a shattering. Not quite”
Source: When You Trap a Tiger
“It's hard to build a new world without making people angry. You try your best, you move with compassion, you think about the big structures. No revolution is perfect.”
Source: Pet
“It’s hard to care for a person when you know that one more step forward will make you fall in love and one step back ruins your friendship.”
“It's hard to change someone else. But we can change ourselves.”
Source: Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
“It's hard to come for someplace or someone you're not proud of.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star