I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's how the colours dance when put together that makes me fall in love with art.”
“It's how we should start reframing the dialogue around sexual violence. Discussion that fixates on the victims and survivors only succeeds in erasing the perpetrators. If the majority of perpetrators are known to their victims, it stands to reason that they move in the same communities we do. And if university students in particular are at risk of being sexually assaulted (which they are), then the question is an essential one: Which one of you raped us?”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
“It's how we work," his brother said simply. "I plan. Jake refines. Owen organizes. And you growl and grunt.”
Source: Love Restored
“It's how words
come apart in a dream.
And then you're awake.”
Source: Cadaver, Speak
“It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.”
“It's human to doubt things. In fact, human beings are the way they are because we harbor doubts. The problem, then, lies in the fact that, once your medical record shows that you've been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, any suspicion becomes an automatic indicator that confirms your insanity.”
Source: Desmesura
“It's humbling, this business of applying for low-wage jobs, consisting as it does of offering yourself--your energy, your smile, your real or faked lifetime of experience--to a series of people for whom this is just not a very interesting package.”
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
“It’s humbling to realize maybe you ain’t as good as someone you’ve spent years looking down on.”
Source: Good Hope Road
“It's humbling to recognise just how many great achievements have been the result not of superior talent or technical know-how, but merely of that strange buoyancy of the soul we call confidence. And this sense of confidence is ultimately nothing more than an internalised version of the confidence other people once had in us.”
Source: A Job to Love
“It's humbling to think how little we contribute to our own ideas.”
“It's humiliating begging complete strangers for help. I don't like relying on charity"
"We do what we can" Danijela said. "One day, if we survive this, we will even the score. We'll do our best to help others.”
Source: Paper Planes
“It's humiliating to wonder if I have ever meant the same things to her as she does to me.”
Source: Sunburn
“it's hurt but I love you I'm strong”
“It’s hurtful somehow to admit this thing and anyway that doesn’t mean i’m losing my faith in this beautiful world. But these days now is the time where people have become so much more-excuse me-shallow. When all of the fancy things and outer beauty are demanded, and those who are lost enough to chase and manage to get those things, they will happen to get very nice response from social and able to expand their images and get famous and be seen as someone who has value. Meanwhile those who could see deeper and their souls are insecure of this mad world, they will have smaller space in width but they will dig deeper and deeper into their self, making space in height, finding the true meaning of their souls, the true essential unshakable truth that’s beyond the fragile material worldly things.”
“It’s Ian’s Little Poppet now, remember?” I said snippily. His eyes were blazing with green. “Oh, it is indeed, and more than you realize.”
Source: Shades of Wicked
“It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.'
'Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race.”
Source: Angle of Repose
“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.”
“It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government. It's illegal to kill someone, unless you're the government. Private organizations can do everything that government can do except for legally break the law.”
Source: Gods of Ruin
“It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.”
Source: The Sellout
“It’s illegal, you know,” he murmurs. “Stealing.”
I clear my throat. “Stealing?”
“My heart. I could have you arrested.”
I snort. “For that tiny thing? I’d get a misdemeanor at most.”
Source: Crushed
“It’s illogical to think that a life lived at the sacrifice of priorities will one day show up as a prioritized life.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
“It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.”
Source: Odd Interlude #1
“It's imperative for leaders to be lifelong learners.
Continuously seeking out new knowledge and expanding your skillset is essential for staying ahead of the curve and adapting to new challenge.”
Source: The Virtuous Boardroom: How Ethical Corporate Governance Can Cultivate Company Success
“It's important as an adult to cultivate and restore your imagination. This will take you very far.
Without imagination, cynicism increases. This builds barriers in your life.”
“It's important for business processes to be adaptable and flexible.”
“It’s important for intuitive people to differentiate other people’s energy from their own pre-existing emotional state.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.”
“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.”
Source: Life of Pi
“It's important never to forget what we truly want, and never stop inching toward our goals, step by step, little by little.”
Source: Limp Forward: A Memoir of Disability, Perseverance, and Success
“It's important not to insist that people try things against their will. The palate is for pleasure, not for obligations.”
“It’s important that meditation is not seen as something that only happens when you are seated in a quiet place. Otherwise spirituality and our daily life become two separate things. That’s the primary illusion—that there is something called “my spiritual life,” and something called “my daily life.” When we wake up to reality, we find they are all one thing. It’s all one seamless expression of spirit.”
Source: True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
“It's important that we clearly defined what we need from our home so we don't get distracted by what someone else might want if it were their home.
(Happy Starts at Home: Getting the Life You Want by Changing the Space You've Got, Rebecca West)”
“It's important that we pair additive manufacturing with robust upcycling. It should be easy to turn items that were 3d printed right back into raw material to print something new.”
“It’s important that we speak up for ourselves, but even more important that we speak up for those who cannot.”
“It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“It's important that you show him that I've taught you the proper respect for your elders."
"Then perhaps you should have.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.”
“It's important to achieve balance in sandwiches, because who really knows how to achieve it in life? Life is messy, difficult, occasionally great but mostly upsetting and out of your control. But you can always make a good sandwich, and a good sandwich will make you happy!”
Source: A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches
“It's important to acknowledge that not every hire will be perfect. So, it's crucial to evaluate each one based on your criteria and learn from the experience.”
“It's important to always keep the business' assets growing. Inflation will make sure that expenses grow, so each business needs to make sure that it's assets are growing to at least compensate for those inflationary pressures.”
“It’s important to be able to recognise and seize crux moments when they do appear, but much of the time one is faced with quotidian tasks and routines. There’s an art and a science to these things; the art consists in trying to improvise more inventive means of breaking a silence and the science consists in trying to make the periods of silence bearable.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“It’s important to be aware that many families are dysfunctional, but we can change the patterns. Even if a child grew up in an aggressive or addictive household, they can heal and move past that with immense emotional resilience, wisdom and gratitude. This is what recovery can offer anyone who, like you, is open-minded, willing and ready to explore self-awareness and take action.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“It’s important to be sincere and empathetic in your approach, acknowledging her feelings while reminding her of her strength and resilience. Let her know that you believe in her, that you’re proud of how she’s handling the situation, and that you’re there for her every step of the way.”
Source: 365 Ways a Year to Cater to Her: Because She Deserves Your Best-Not Occasionally, but Always
“It's important to be truthful, but not with the ones who keep lying to you.”
“It's important to bear in mind that I'm being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrentless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineer a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 1000,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.”
“It’s important to believe in something, a spirit in things and a higher purpose. Something I call ‘True Beauty’.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“It's important to both ground ourselves in the here and now and also remember that the world is much bigger than this moment, bigger than us and our experience of it, and much bigger than we imagine when we are afraid”
Source: Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
“It’s important to determine your path towards healing, the one that works best for you, someone else path may not work for you.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“It's important to distinguish the value of raw land from the value of improvements made to land. Land values are socially generated and belong to the communities that have created them. The irony is that while improvements such as buildings don't affect the underlying value of the land upon which they are located, they do have the ability to indirectly affect the properties that surround them.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“It's important to empower localized problem-solving in the way mycelium networks do.”