I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s not even death that’s lonely. . . . I think it’s surviving. Because afterwards, you realize you did die—the person you were before is gone—and while everyone around you is pressing onward, you’re learning to become a person all over again.”
Source: Zodiac
“It's not even like memory. It's all just there."
"All the time, Willy?"
"Every hour, every minute.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“It's not events, but our opinions about them, which cause us suffering.”
Source: The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
“It's not every girl who gets rescued from prison by the dashing Son of Zorro”
Source: Silent Murders
“It's Not Every Issue That Deserves Attention...
It's Not Every Speech That Deserves Recording...
And
Truly It's Not Every Elder that Deserves Respect!”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“It’s not everyday that you want to wear a smile on your face, but you do it anyway, no matter how hard it is.”
“It's not everyone that likes RnB, Hippop or Hiplife. However, each of them has their fans. Meaning not everyone will like you as a person, your ideologies or your business.
But if you persist and strategically position yourself, then you will attract a segment of the market that loves everything about you.”
“It's not evil that separates Earth and Ingo; it's difference. But there are plenty who want to make evil out of difference.”
Source: The Deep
“It's not exactly polite to keep saying hell, but you can always do what I do and make up a word. Like, twatwaffle. Or douchecanoe.”
Source: Ashes to Ashes
“It's not exactly what I wanted. Not how I always pictured this moment. But I know that just like I've given my all for him, he's giving everything he has to give.
To me.
His Golden Boy.
And that makes it perfect.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“It’s not fair how someone can do everything right and still be hurt because someone else does one thing wrong.”
Source: The First to Die at the End
“It's not fair! I wanted to be the master halfling thrower!" Steve complained.
Suddenly the air distorted and Steve was thrown over the wall, falling down the inner castle wall.
Dave coughed and put a card down as there was a loud metal on stone impact.
"I'm okay!" Steve yelled back up.
"Seems like these floors are getting slippery," Lox commented.
"Very slippery. One might fall once or twice on them," Gurren agreed.
"Dave," Deia said with a low voice, looking to her husband, who looked like a paragon of virtue.
"Those falls are dangerous," Dave said.
"Yes, I hope they don't happen again," Deia said.”
“It’s not fair!” is the mantra not of the poor and oppressed but of the rich and spoiled. The poor and oppressed of the world don’t pout, “It’s not fair!”—they know the world too well to dare.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can.”
Source: Ocean's Echo
“It's not fair. It's not fair that he lets his rage take over, that he lets it rule him. I don't know why he has to let it rule him. I don't know why he has to be two people.
I don't know why he gets to be two people, and I only get to be me, the one who is here to take what he has to give, and who is here to pick pu the pieces afterward.”
Source: But I Love Him
“It's not fair," Linus said, staring off into nothing. "The way some people can be. But as long as you remember to be just and kind like I know you are, what those people think won't matter in the long run. Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as you remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“It's not fair that I know how great we would be together, except that we can't. It's not fair that, even though I know I'll never have you, I had planned everything - the candles, the lilies - replayed the words I wanted to say a million times when you and I finally made love. I get that it's not fair,”
Source: Embrace
“It's not fair, the way some people can be. But as long as you remember to be just and kind like I know you are, what those people think won't matter in the long run. Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as you remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“It’s not fair to be hurt or angry over something he didn’t even say, especially since the words I put into my own head are all true, but knowing he potentially could say it—and probably will—is enough to make me sink into a dark silence that I don’t rise from for the rest of the ride home.”
Source: You Deserve Each Other
“It's not fear that's holding you back, but it's your lack of obedience to your heart.”
“It's not food that keeps us alive, it's unity.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“It's not funny anymore...", did you heard your self, you are entering a position called, "I wanna be a victim..., please take me".”
“It's not generally realized that camels have a natural aptitude for advanced mathematics, particularly where they involve ballistics. This evolved as a survival trait, in the same way as a human's hand and eye coordination, a chameleon's camouflage and a dolphin's renowned ability to save drowning swimmers if there's any chance that biting them in half might be observed and commented on adversely by other humans.”
Source: Pyramids
“It’s not God’s great love that falls short in accomplishing redemption of nations”
“It's not God who doesn't care, it's us”
“It's not going to be easy," she says, looking up at me. "it's probably going to get a lot harder before it gets easier. No one can change what you did or what has happened in the past." I lower my head and start to cry again. "But-" she says so sharply that I have to look up at her again. "But you do have control over who you are no and how you carry yourself. Do you understand?”
Source: These Things Hidden
“It's not gonna be easy, but with you it's not gonna be difficult either.”
“It's not good for your health to be the center of too much attention when you work in the palace. At least not until you make a few powerful friends. Sometimes, the best gift you can receive from a royal hand is a bit of anonymity.”
Source: The Queen's Cook
“It’s not good idea to always dance with the day’s tune.”
“It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely you'll die that way---a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Source: The Program
“It's not good to know things ahead. It screws up your life.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“It’s not good to stare too long at the Mire. It might look back.”
Source: Bayou Moon
“It’s not great. What kind of connection is this? A one-way hotline to Pervyville?” I took a step forward, on a roll now. “It’s disgusting. Freaky—stop laughing, Seth!”
Source: Pure
“It’s not growth itself that matters – what matters is how income is distributed, and the extent to which it is invested in public services. And past a certain point, more GDP isn’t necessary for improving human welfare at all.”
Source: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“It's not hard to confuse love and hate.”
Source: How the Mistakes Were Made
“It's not hard to like these foods once you open your mouth to them: the anchovies, the trotters, the pig's head terrines, the sardines, the mackerel, the uni, the liver mousses and confits. Once you admit that you want things to taste like more or better versions of themselves---once you commit to flavor as your god---the rest follows. I started adding salt to everything. My tongue grew calloused, overworked. You want the fish to taste like fish, but fish times a thousand. Times a million. Fish on crack. I was lucky I never tried crack.”
Source: Sweetbitter
“It’s not hard to spot an honest man. He’s the one that no one wants to talk to.”
“It's not harsh to be assertive, its harsher when people take advantage of you”
“It's not her fault,' she said. 'Nobody knows how to grieve in this country. They don't make any noise. Nobody taught them how. I don't want to be that way.”
Source: Write Naked
“It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“It’s not his friendship I miss,’ Elizabeth said bluntly. ‘It’s him. The very person of him. His presence. I want his shadow on my wall, I want the smell of him. I can’t eat without him, I can’t do the business of the realm. I can’t read a book without wanting his opinion, I can’t hear a tune without wanting to sing it to him.”
Source: The Virgin's Lover
“It's not hope until you put your 'p' in a 'hoe'.”
“It's not hotels and nightclubs I crave, or even spectacular beaches -- it's isolation and solitude, time away from the human world and a chance to measure life on a different kind of yardstick.”
Source: Beyond Paradise: Encounters in Hawaii Where the Tour Bus Never Runs
“It’s not how fast the system runs, but how well it delivers — quality always outshines speed.”
Source: Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh
“It’s not how fast you go but how far you go fast.”
Source: Mid Ocean
“It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.”
“IT'S NOT HOW LONG, BUT HOW WELL WE LIVE.”
“It's not how long you live somewhere that makes it home. Home is a feeling here, (she tapped on the chest). That you belong somewhere and somewhere belongs to you. But i will tell you a secret. Some people don't feel they belong anywhere. No matter where they are, they are always unhappy. They go from place to place trying to find peace. And usually they find themselves back where they started.”
“It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for." -Josephine to Apollo (Trials of Apollo: Book 2 The Dark Prophecy)”
“It's not how long you see something. It's how you intensely you feel it"
From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”
Source: Stories and Scripts: an Anthology