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 to communicate the immigrant experience with those who don’t understand. We want to support and be with our families, and sometimes we sacrifice our mental health and our emotional well-being to do it.”
Source: Dating Dr. Dil
“It’s hard to control other people’s reaction to your behavior, what you can control is your behavior”
“It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.”
“It’s hard to deliver high-quality results without adequate rest of both mind and body.”
Source: A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Healthier, Happier, and More Resilient Workforce
“It’s hard to demand equality and expect special treatment.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“It’s hard to describe, this feeling of seeing your kids spending time together like adults, meeting up again after being out there in the world like free agents. There’s something giddy and unreal about it. I knew that boy when he was afraid of strangers. I knew them both before they knew how to talk.”
Source: Universal Harvester
“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower”
“It's hard to escape the rain when it's inside your mind.”
“It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.”
Source: Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
“It's hard to explain exactly what it feels like to be judged. There's a shame to it. Even when you know you're innocent. It still feels like you are coated in something dirty and evil. It made me feel guilty. It made me feel like my very soul was put on trial and found lacking.”
Source: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
“It's hard to explain how an infatuation actually starts. It's a state so all-encompassing that it's almost impossible to remember how it felt to live inside your own head before it began. Everything that precedes it becomes a pathway that was always leading there. Time before is valuable only as a resource with which to create a persona, to bind the object of the infatuation closer. I had given my (partially fabricated) past life to Mizuko to make a story that in the end never got told. Or not by her. It is also hard to explain the intensity of the infatuation itself. There is rarely an explanation that seems reasonable to anyone but you. Unless you're part of a cult or viral phenomenon, so that when you weep outside the object of your infatuation's hotel room, you do so in the company of millions.”
Source: Sympathy
“It’s hard to explain to people who already know who they are and what they like that you have no fucking idea what you want to do with your time because you don’t know how to like or dislike a thing, or how to do anything.”
Source: Tied Within
“It's hard to explain to Tiana that her feelings about this aren't indicative of what a great guy her 'daddy' is but rather an indictment against how awful all the adults in her life have been...If you haven't had proper love and care, then a substitute will feel like the real thing, because you've got nothing to compare it to. For Tiana, whose entire fifteen years on the earth have been filled with physical violence, neglect, and horrific abuse, this analogy doesn't really make sense. Her 'daddy' is the first person who's shown her any type of kindness, who's modeled what a 'real' family looks like- even though after dinner he takes her and the other girls out and sells them on the street.”
Source: Girls Like Us
“It's hard to explain what you want from your life. The best way to know is to keep your head up, your soul clean and keep moving with the pace of life. It will reveal all to you, when the time is right and the moon is bright.”
“It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.”
Source: She Flew the Coop
“It’s hard to face the facts, even in connection with war the imagination holds its own for a long time.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard to trust anyone. It’s hard to believe people won’t let you down. I’m feeling like I want to cry. My body feels hollow. Empty. I don’t feel like I’m 17. I feel young. I’m not sure how old, maybe about 10 yrs. It’s hard to accept that I can’t get all the support I need from one person. From any person. It’s hard that no one can fully understand. It’s hard for me to admit that inside I feel a really lonely person. What do I need to do to take care of myself right now? Well I need to cuddle my teddies — it sounds silly, but I need some comfort...
I was still cuddling teddies when I should have been cuddling boys. The sick imagery in my mind, rather than making me sexually active, had closed that door completely.”
Source: Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“It's hard to find a hook to end a story when nothing much has changed since the beginning.
But so it is, and so we are. Some stories are just like that, I think. The endings are soft, or maybe not endings at all. Just a continuation. Just a pause. Just a life, waiting for the right time to begin again.”
“it's hard to find people who actually like smoking. Some are hooked; others try forcefully until they are hooked as well.”
Source: Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
“It’s hard to find words to explain why you love someone, they don’t make words with that much passion. And even if they did, there isn’t a perfect combination of syllables and sounds to create a word strong enough to explain love. Love is just a filler word, a useless word that tries to do a job that no word can.”
Source: Song Chaser
“It's hard to focus when you are starving and hard to focus when you are full.”
Source: Ripped Pages the unedited Writing of Tim Storrs
“It's hard to fuck your girlfriend when she's fucked up and you're not. It's harder than the skee-ball they used to have at the Plaza arcade, all that agony over a fuzzy piece.”
Source: Venus Drive
“It's hard to get a hug wrong.”
“It's hard to get ahead when we make money for 8 hours a day but spend it for 24.”
Source: The Other 8 Hours: Maximize Your Free Time to Create New Wealth & Purpose
“It's hard to get close to people and have fulfilling friendships if you always suspect people are hiding things from you.”
Source: Miracle on 5th Avenue
“It's hard to get enough of something that almost works.”
“It’s hard to get mad at you when you’re being all logical.”
Source: Sentinel of Darkness
“it's hard to get shit done when there's no one to do it for you”
“It’s hard to get someone to love you, and for you to love them back. Do most people even get close to real love? And the thing about real love is that it is often the most painful thing of all. On the other hand, it’s the easiest thing of all to hate others, or be hated by them. Hate comes so naturally! It’s second nature.”
Source: Lucid Sex: Revolutionize Your Sex Life
“It’s hard to get your hopes dashed if you never get them up to begin with... Our beliefs about what’s possible have a direct impact on the reality we experience.”
Source: Best Year Ever
“It’s hard to guess ages when you’re not that old yourself and won’t be anytime soon.
من الصعب تخمين عمرٍ ما دون أن تكون تجاوزته أو أوشكت على ذلك.”
Source: The Reader
“It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots. And yet, in an odd way, I know they're sincerely trying to help me.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“It's hard to hate someone you understand!”
“It's hard to have a serious conversation with you when you're wearin' lighted cocks on your head."
AJ defiantly thrust out her chin and the penises bobbled. "We aren't having a conversation. You're give me tough-guy attitude. If you won't acknowledge me in public, you don't have the right to chastise me for anything I do in public or in private. And now you lost the right to do anything to me in private either, bucko."
"Quit bein' so goddamm childish."
Her eyes narrowed to silver slits. "Quit bein' such a goddamn dickhead."
"You're the one with dicks on your head, baby doll."
"Yeah? I can take mine off any old time I please, but you wear your dickhead like a second skin. Or should I say as a second foreskin?”
Source: Cowgirl Up and Ride
“It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.”
Source: Selected Letters V: 1934-1937
“It’s hard to have patience, especially when you aren’t actually sure what you’re waiting for. Have you ever felt ready for the next thing, but not sure what that thing is?”
Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way
“It's hard to hear people imply that you can't be who you know you are because your reality doesn't jibe with how they've been taught to see the world. It chips away at you; it sent me into the shadows to hide for the majority of my life.”
Source: Color Me In
“It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.”
“It's hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say over and over again, 'You.' Not everyone makes that choice. Not everyone can.
(Daphne Bell)”
Source: Expiration Dates
“It's hard to ignore ignorance, as we wear our brainy hat of hatred. Where the hammer hits the nail, indirectly.”
“It's hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some hidden intelligence created a universe of more than a hundred billion galaxies, each containing more than a hundred billion stars, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy evolved an atmosphere sufficiently oxygenated to support life, only to then reveal his existence to an assortment of violent tribal groups before disappearing again.”
“It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.”
“It's hard to imagine any group of people being held in less esteem than we are by our clients. The overwhelming majority of them feel that we are either bumbling incompetents--after all if we're otherwise why aren't we in private practice making real money?--or, even worse, actively conspiring with the DA against them as evidenced by the fact that we know and appear to act friendly towards a lot of these people who are prosecuting them.”
Source: A Naked Singularity
“It’s hard to imagine calling the dairy industry anything but “inhumane” when you consider that on dairy farms, cows are artificially inseminated and forced to give birth, only to have their beloved babies torn away from them so the milk that nature intended for them can instead be consumed by humans. Both mother cows and their calves are emotionally traumatised when forcibly separated from one another. The mother cows bellow in desperation, and their calves bawl in distress. They cry out for each other for days – in vain.
The male calves – often referred to as “by-products” – are either shot at birth or destined to become veal. The female calves, like their mothers, face a lifetime of repeated forcible impregnation and anguish over their stolen babies. Their bodies are strained to the limit in order to squeeze out every last drop of milk. Today, British cows typically produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally in order to feed their calves.”
“It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.”
“It's hard to imagine talking to Lucy. But I can imagine sleeping with her. I have been imagining it quite regularly. I can't stop imagining it. Maybe it's time for my first Lucy Branch, my first truly physical relationship. And why do I assume it would be a bad thing? Maybe it's better with someone different from you. I could teach her how fluorocarbons affect the ozone. She could teach me about oral sex.
We would both become better people.”
Source: Destroy All Cars
“It's hard to impress me in case you don't know me, to lie me there isn't purpose I will find soon or later the truth. The lie just make the stuff complex and complex and after all I just don't want anymore to believe in your words, if you want to sacrifice this okay, continue to do this and I can assure that soon everything will come in it's order.”
“It's hard to keep a straight face when I just wanna smile- Fun.”
“It's hard to keep something a secret when it's written all over you body.”
Source: Willow
“It's hard to know, isn't it, whether the things we face are just because the world is full of sin and sinful people, or if God is working out a plan,' Grandma continued. 'I happen to think it's both. There's sin, but through it all, He takes the mess we make and paints a masterpiece. In fact, I'm quite certain that before God can ever bless a woman—and use her to impact many—He uses the hammer, the file, and the furnace to do a holy work.”
Source: Love Finds You in Glacier Bay, Alaska