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 know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before.”
Source: The Girl Who Would Be King
“It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.”
Source: Carve the Mark
“It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"
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Source: Carve the Mark
“It’s hard to know when you’ve been holding on to something until you finally let it go, or it leaves of its own accord.”
Source: Send Me Their Souls
“It's hard to know where to stand when you are surrounded by stupidity.”
“It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know is that it's wrapped around you, sometimes a little tighter than you'd like.
But clearly there have been some mistakes. Bad ones. You can tell that just by looking at him.”
Source: One Last Thing Before I Go
“It’s hard to leave toxic relationships because you become dependent on the action of how they treat you. You depend on manipulation because the emotionally abused no longer comprehend self worth. You understand it, but your mind tells you otherwise and become afraid to leave the situation. You don’t think you’re worthy which makes you question leaving it.”
“It’s hard to let go, especially after you’ve invested a few years. It’s hard to let go of who we imagined someone else was too. You loved him so you overlooked all the thing that were obvious to everyone around you. We all do it.”
Source: The Cat Who Ate His Tail
“It's hard to live in a man's world when you are not the only woman in it”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“It's hard to live with people willing to send you to exile or death. It's hard to become intimate with them. It's hard to love them.”
“It’s hard to look back at the past and feel some regret, but it’s really exciting to look to the future and see a window of hope.”
“It’s hard to look back on your life and point to one event–one moment–that changed everything and set you on the path that made you…you. That only happens in movies. Most people’s lives are a series of millions of messy little moments strung together adding up to a messy little life. But sometimes, you can look back and see a pattern forming… see a clear path cutting through the mess.
It makes you wonder, do we even have a choice at all? Or was that path going to form no matter what we did?
Yeah, it’s easy to look back and see the pattern. It’s easy to second-guess every decision you made and figure out what you would’ve done differently. But none of that much matters now. It’s all in the past. Can’t waste time thinking about who i was, who i could’ve been. All that matters now is who i am.”
Source: All-New Hawkeye (2015) #5
“It’s hard to love a second home as much as the first..”
Source: Fourth Wing
“It's hard to love a second home as much as the first.'
I swallow. 'It's easy when the second home is the right one.' And that is what the Riders Quadrant has become to me- the right home. The longing for the kind of peace and solitude I found only here can't match the adrenaline rush of flight.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“It’s hard to love someone without restraint. To give yourself over to the swell and pull of it without fear of what might happen. I think it’s only natural to hold a part of yourself back and protect what you can. But it’s hard to keep yourself from giving in too. Layla is right. These past nine years I’ve buried every glimpse of strong feeling with denial, yearning and a sprinkle of deliberate misunderstanding”
Source: Lovelight Farms
“It's hard to make a decision
when being fair doesn't mean being nice.”
“It’s hard to make and maintain friendships on a coaching schedule, and as a result, it can be a very lonely profession. If anything, I’d like to see more reaching out among the coaches in the women’s game. It means a lot to get a phone call from a colleague remembering a birthday or commemorating a milestone. I try to reach out that way, even if it’s to say, “I know things look bad out there right now, but you’ve got a fan in me.”
Source: Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
“It's hard to make money working; and the harder the work, the worse the pay”
Source: Violeta
“It's hard to mourn someone you know you shouldn't.”
Source: Part Two: Execution
“It’s hard to not feel a smidge of jealousy, especially when I am waiting for a similar blessing to break through in my own life and it seems God is answering other people’s prayers and not mine. But I can’t just sit on the sidelines and grumble about it! I need to have a trusting spirit towards God and know that if he can work a miracle for that person, he can certainly bless me! And when I rejoice over someone’s good news, I know that my friend will be there to celebrate with me when the time comes!”
Source: Be The Sunshine
“It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried”
Source: Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
“It's Hard to order just a black coffee these days. That's the kind of miserable world we live in.”
Source: The Divine Dantes: Squirt Guns in Hades
“It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set IQ and that it's precisely measurable. My lowest scores probably reflect less than my maximum effort, and my highest scores probably grant me some extra points due to crazily high levels of diligence plus vast experience with these tests. It doesn't really matter unless we want to turn IQ testing into a reality show sport.”
“It's hard to pretend you're OK. Especially when you're all by urself, alone. :'(”
“It's hard to push up against a wall, when you are the wall.”
“It's hard to reconcile this August with the other one. and to be honest I don't try very hard. I've seen flashes of this August before-This brightness, this conviviality, this generosity of spirit-but I know what he's capable of, and I won't forget it. The others can believe what they like, but I don't believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration And yet I can see how they might be fooled-”
Source: Water for Elephants
“It’s hard to reflect on the things we take for granted.”
Source: Why We Follow: Natural Followership in a World Obsessed with Leadership
“It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment. During the days that Bonaparte stayed in Boulogne, there was a feeling of urgency and privilege. He woke before us and slept along after us, going through every detail of our training and rallying us personally. He stretched his hand towards the Channel and made England sound as though she already belonged to us. To each of us. That was his gift. He became the focus of our lives. The thought of fighting excited us. No one wants to be killed but the hardship, the long hours, the cold, the orders were things we would have endured anyway on the farms or in the towns. We were not free men. He made sense out of dullness.”
“It's hard to remember who you were when you're constantly pretending to be someone you're not.”
“It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. “The same procedure as every year, James!” ("Things needing to be changed")”
“It's hard to say." Helen shut the window. "Julian has always been able to make sacrifices that were difficult and hide the pain it caused him.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.”
Source: A Piece of the World
“It’s hard to say where this will take me
My heart tends to run faster than my feet,
but you walk across my thoughts
like a visitor in the city,
careful to not leave footprints of his own,
but failing to stay hidden
from every passerby coming through
My heart’s been broken before
but, still, it yearns to hear your name
It’s hard to say where this will take me,
but, if you’re there,
I’ll go too”
Source: September Was Yellow Flowers
“It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“It’s hard to search for someone like yourself when you’re not even sure who you are.”
Source: A Million Quiet Revolutions
“It's hard to see at first because it's dark, but there's a cardboard box, and in it are a cat and five small kittens. I don't have any pets, and if I had to choose, I'd probably consider myself a dog person. But I can't deny how cute the kittens are. The love Annika feels for these tiny animals transforms her face, and I'm reminded of how protective and nurturing she can be.”
Source: The Girl He Used to Know
“It's hard to stay alive, but sometimes it's the only choice we have.”
Source: A Dark Matter
“It’s hard to stay sane in a world where countless minds are shaping us, each offering a different vision of who we are and who we could become.”
“It’s hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have.”
Source: The Social Worker
“it's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds”
Source: Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World
“It's hard to teach children about our migration West when they're thinking, "Why didn't you just call an Uber?”
“It’s hard to tell if the tooth that fell off misses the set of teeth in the mouth or the other way round.”
“It's hard to tell where
It is that I end
And you begin, synergy”
Source: 17: Haiku Poems
“It's hard to tell where reality ends and illusions begins. They blend - then they separate”
“it’s hard to tell whether or
not hell’s flames are getting
closer”
“It’s hard to tell. Who is alive? Who is dead? We all look same here. We all are stung, harshly stung by life. However, we’ve to survive and we’ll survive.”
“It's hard to tell you how I am feeling. Perhaps if I share with you the event that made me aware of these feelings, you will have similar feelings of your own.”
Source: The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
“It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is undependable at best, and folks in one river system are always trying to steal water from another.”
Source: Threshold
“It’s hard to trust again after betrayal, because all you have from the past is reasons why you shouldn’t. Learning to trust yourself must come first. Trust that you will set a boundary, recognize and never tolerate bad behavior again. Trust that you know the standards of behaviors you will not tolerate again are for your own protection and be okay never tolerating abuse again.”