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 just what substances you put on your skin. Inappropriate inflammation is rooted in diet, how you handle stress, how you rest, and your exposure to environmental toxins. - llskin.jp”
“It's not just you, this. It’s the basic problem with religion, be it Jesus or Vishnu or God Emperors. Ideological purity never survives contact with the enemy.”
Source: Memory's Legion
“It’s not just your heart beating inside your chest anymore, Dubh Burton. It’s mine, too,”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“It's not just your skills that get you to the top of a tough mountain! Can you reach the top if a violent storm suddenly breaks out? What if rocks broke off from the mountain and landed on you? What if lightning hits you? You see, luck must be on your side to be able to reach the top! When you reach the top, don't forget to thank your luck!”
“It's not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief.”
Source: Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
“It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's a million little paper cuts every day.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“It's not like any of you could best me. I mean, it's three on one and you're still losing.”
Source: The Quest for Freedom
“It's not like anything is going to change, but.
"It's not like nothing is going to change," Senjogahara said at the end.”
“It's not like I'm some evil witch, an Uregma of the unborn, but I've learned to look at life from above, like an Aeroflot pilot flying over our capital. My mother would say like an eagle over the steppe swarming with mice. Like a girl at her embroidered sleeves, as people in the country say. It's the only way to tell right from wrong. I'm not the most sensitive woman, but my heart isn't made of stone either. I only know things are right or wrong, regardless of a woman's tears.”
Source: All This Belongs to Me
“It's not like I'm some evil witch, an Uregma of the unborn, but I've never learned to look at life from above, like an Aeroflot pilot flying over our capital. My mother would say like an eagle over the steppe swarming with mice. Like a girl at her embroidered sleeves, as people in the country say. It's the only way to tell right from wrong. I'm not the most sensitive woman, but my heart isn't made of stone either. I only know things are right or wrong, regardless of a woman's tears.”
Source: All This Belongs to Me
“It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.”
Source: After Spring Comes
“It’s not like I want to be friends with you now, Frankie. Don’t even talk to me, I seriously can’t deal with you.
I’m just writing to say I underestimated you. I significantly underestimated you. I don’t actually think it is possible to overestimate you. Although you are not a nice person.”
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“It's not like pain just evaporated, she considered. It needed to go somewhere, and maybe shards of it were still lying dormant inside of her, waiting for a resurrection.”
Source: The Rewind
“It’s not like the movies. There are rarely gunshots or explosions, bad guys hunting you down. You follow a lead to where it takes you. Most times it takes you to a dead end and you have to return to the beginning and follow another. Usually, you have to follow dozens of leads before you get anywhere. But, sometimes, you get lucky, and every door you open leads you to another until, finally, you stumble upon the truth. It’s not about justice, you see, or money—God knows it’s not about money. It’s about bringing the truth to light. It’s not glamorous, but it makes the world a little more truthful a place. That’s enough for me.”
Source: Porno Valley
“It’s not like we can keep this a secret forever, right? One day Alice and Jerry are going to start to notice that Otter and I live together and spend every waking moment together, and even if they don’t notice that, there’s no way they’re not going to be able see what happens when I look at him. Jesus, it’s a dead fucking giveaway because I get that stupid, goofy grin on my face and… and…. What the hell are you all staring at?”
“Who are you and what have you done with Bear?” Creed asks, eyes wide.
“Aw,” Anna says sweetly. “You love him.”
Source: Who We Are
“It's not like you ate Filipino food all the time. You loved Emperor's Way takeout, and the friendly Chinese girl there who you were too shy to ask but whose name tag said to call her Ming always gave you extra sauce for your orange chicken. The sweet potato pie from Butter was absolutely to die for, and it made you feel soft and warm the same way Lola's leche flan did. The youngest Manzano once handed you a delicious pastry without prompting or demanding payment before drifting away, seemingly lost in a world of her own. If this was a marketing strategy for their pastelería, it worked.
But you could tell that there were differences in the way they cooked and baked, that they took old and treasured recipes and put in their own unique, modern spin to them. Why couldn't you do the same?”
Source: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
“It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight”
Source: Amelia Grey's Fireside Dream
“It’s not like you have anything to lose anymore.”
My fingers stop at my thumb ring while Sienna’s words echo in my head. Do I have anything to lose? I mean, after all I did, everything I fought against.
I slowly turn the ring on my thumb. This simple band has, like all of my rings, one word engraved on it.
Will anything change if I go to him? After all, I did lose everything that is important.
It’s funny, actually, after the months I spent pushing him away. I thought, like the silly girl I probably am, that if I didn’t give myself to him, I’d be safe, that as long as I didn’t sleep with him, I wouldn’t lose my heart. Shouldn’t I have this one last memory to take home with me?
So lost…I came here lost and I’ll go home lost. How convenient, and so utterly pathetic I want to give myself one strong shake to snap out of this.”
Source: Lost & Found: Anabel & William #1
“It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.'
'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great.”
Source: Stag
“It’s not loneliness. It’s peace without witnesses.”
“It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.”
“It’s not Love. But what fault is it of mine
if my affections do not become
Love? Very much my fault, I would say,
when I can live from day to day
on mad purity, blind pity…
Make a scandal of meekness.
But the violence of the senses and intellect
that has confounded me for years
was the only way.”
Source: Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The: A Bilingual Edition
“It's not love if you have to dim your light to fit in their shadow”
“It's not love on which the strongest foundations are built. It's the decency of merciful lies.”
“It's not love. Or at least not what I thought love would feel like. It hurts to be near him and it hurts to be away.”
Source: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
“It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices.”
“It's not love that you hate, it's the loved one who betrayed.”
“It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.”
Source: Wilder Girls
“It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it’s racism. It’s not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it’s sexism. And it’s ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us.”
Source: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
“It’s not loving that hurts, but the fear we associate with it that does.”
“It's not luck, I'm cheating." (Allen Walker)”
“It's not luck - there's probably no such thing as luck, and if there is you can't depend on it. All you can do is play the percentages, play your best game, and when the critical bet comes - in every money game there is always a critical bet - you hold your stomach tight and you push hard. That's the clutch. And that's where your born loser loses”
Source: The Hustler
“It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slamdunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.”
“It's not magic, it's science. Neural plasticity is real. Long-term potentiation is any parent or teacher's best friend.”
Source: The Brain-Based Classroom Practical Guide: 60 Simple Tools for Teachers to Implement Now!: Regulate Relate Reason
“It's not many people who do selfless acts of kindness anymore. Change the game. Be the hero you can't find in society.”
“It's not me but the world that's deranged.”
Source: 1Q84
“it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!”
Source: A Fragile Enchantment
“It's not merely that life is fragile- but the plans we make, the paths we plot, all of it so easily thrown off course.”
Source: Escape from Chernobyl
“It’s not mind-reading,’ she said. ‘Not even an empathy link. Just … a temporary wave of exhaustion. Primal emotions. Your pain washes over me. I take on some of your burden.’
Nico’s expression became guarded. He twisted the silver skull ring on his finger, the same way Reyna did with her silver ring when she was thinking. Sharing a habit with the son of Hades made her uneasy.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“It’s not mine, it’s not yours
Though imperfect, but it’s ours.
We gotta breathe
We gotta sleep
We gotta laugh
We gotta live.
Can you hear me?
This story belongs to us.”
Source: The Imperfect
“It's not money which will make your life meaningful.it's life which will make your money meaningful.”
“It's not morbid to miss people.”
Source: All Things Different
“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”
Source: Flotsam
“It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.”
“It's not my cow. It's a sheep with a pitchfork. Unfortunately, it goes quack.”
Source: Thud!
“It's not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It's my God who made me qualified when I became a mom.”
“It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“It’s not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They’re basically huge vibrators. With wheels. - Harry Dresden”
Source: Blood Rites
“It's not my fault! It can't make any difference, can it?"
"You understand nothing. You are a destroyer, a black spiteful destroyer. You are the sort of person who goes around in a dream smashing things . . . You aren't really here at all.”
Source: The Black Prince
“It's not my fault the floors are porous. Take it up with management."
He glowers. "Maybe I will. And maybe I'll have you evicted."
"Good luck with that," I say with a smirk. "You know how French laws work."
His threat is empty. When it comes to real estate, the laws in France protect the renters, not the owners. Even if he starts the eviction process, it could still take up to three years to get rid of me.”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique