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 quite right what they say: love doesn't make you blind, it makes you optimistic.”
Source: I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
“IT’S NOT RACIST
TO BE PROUD
OF YOUR COUNTRY!'
no, but it is fucking
stupid
to think it makes
you a better man.”
Source: Anti-British Lefty Commie Traitor Scum
“It’s not reality that creates your beliefs, it’s your beliefs that create reality.”
“It’s not reality that makes people happy; good thoughts make people happy.”
“It’s not really a mystery except it’s always a mystery about people.”
Source: If Beale Street Could Talk
“It’s not really impressive when there isn’t another option. What am I supposed to do, be all ‘woe is me’ for the rest of my life? I still get access to the same sunrises everyone else does, the same 24 hours in a day. And if I don’t take advantage of those things, it’s my own fault.”
Source: Pretend You're Mine
“It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing out
Outcry is the only outburst,if you can’t shout”
“It’s not really that I hate capitalism; I really couldn’t care less what kind of system of economic distribution we have, as long as it works for the good of all.”
“It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die.”
Source: Fire
“It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said.
Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking Small's neck with great deliberation, as if the fate of the Dells depended on that smooth, careful movement.
"I have two responses to that," He said at last. "First, everyone is going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. Against all reason I loved my father." He looked at her keenly. "Did you love yours?"
"Yes," she whispered.
He stroked Small's nose. "I love you," he said, "even knowing you'll never have me. And I love my brother, more than I ever realized before you came along. You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.”
Source: Fire
“It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said.
Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking Small's neck with great deliberation, as if the fate of the Dells depended on that smooth, careful movement.
"I have two responses to that," he said finally. "First, everyone's going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. Against all reasons I loved my father." He looked at her keenly. "Did you love yours?"
"Yes," she whispered.
He stroked Small's nose. "I love you," he said, "even knowing you'll never have me. And I love my brother, more than I ever realized before you came along. You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do."
She made a connection then. Surprised she sat back from him and studied his face, soft with shadows and light. She saw a part of him she hadn't seen before.
"You came to me for lessons to guard your mind," she said, "and you stopped asking me to marry you, both at the same time. You did those things out of love for your brother."
"Well" he said, looking a bit sheepishly at the floor. "I also took a few swings at him, but that's neither here nor there."
"You're good at love," she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true. "I'm not so good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away."
He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.”
Source: Fire
“It's not regret for staying. It is nostalgia for something that we believe is true in our illusion, something we will never have. And if we touched it, we would soon realize that it was not what we dreamed of.”
Source: الساعة الخامسة والعشرون
“It’s not remotely a taboo to investigate the Holocaust. Even in Europe, where there are strict laws in place outlawing denial of crimes against humanity – and thereby outlawing denial of the Holocaust – you can study historical records of the Holocaust and inspect Nazi documentation relating to it until your heart’s content. You will even be encouraged to do this.”
Source: Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
“It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything.”
Source: THE PSAMMEAD TRILOGY – The Magical Adventures of Five Friends (Illustrated): Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet & The Story of the Amulet
“It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.”
Source: After the Quake
“It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.”
Source: Hidden Pieces
“It’s not rocket surgery”
Source: The Patternmaker and the Tide
“It's not safe out there," he says, too close to my ear.
"Yeah...well..." I look at him. "Maybe it's not safe in here either.”
Source: See How They Run
“It’s not saying something that’s been said a million times before. It’s saying something that’s been said in a way that feels as if it was missed a million times before.”
“It’s not saying something that’s been said a million times before. It’s saying something that’s been said in a way that’s feels as if it was missed a million times before.”
“It's not selfish to run away from insult,
Better run away than retaliate with harm.
Even mindless cavemen have a right to live,
Even if they know not the worth of the sun.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“It’s not simply a matter of accumulating data points, though in the early stages there is a necessity to take the raw material on-board. If anything, rather than carrying a large inventory, knowledge arrives “just in time”, without the expensive overhead of warehousing, in response to the needs of time, place, people and circumstances.”
Source: Secret Friends: The Ramblings of a Madman in Search of a Soul
“It’s not smart to piss off a dragon.”
Source: The Rogue King
“It's not so easy... it's not possible.”
“It’s not so easy to let go, when what you really want is for the past to remain in the present, to remain secure within your heart.”
Source: The Memory Gardener
“It's not so easy."
"What isn't?"
"To establish relationships, you can't just elect people, it can't be done by thinking and willing.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“It's not so much a choice between heaven and hell, as it is the realization of both simultaneously, but with the confident knowledge that you have chosen your fates under no duress for which to contest it as unfair.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“It’s not so much about the difficult place that I’m at, although that’s what’s probably got most of my attention. Rather, it’s more about how I got here. Because whatever that is, if I don’t change it I’m going to live out the whole of my life is some pretty similar places.”
“It's not so much about what the morning brings; it's what you bring to the morning”
“It’s not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it’s much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life.”
“It's not so much how I think as how I feel. Sometimes I feel so weak and helpless, because of everything I was told. Feelings can overpower thoughts, no matter how hard you try to rationalize them.”
Source: Acts of Love
“It’s not so much that a person wins, but that they refuse to lose that results in success.”
“It's not so much that history is written by the victors, as the old saying goes, but the powerful do often have the capacity to make themselves heard and to erase the voices of others.”
Source: Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past
“It's not so much that I don't believe in it. I don't subscribe to its nomination. If fate is the law then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“It's not so much time is circular as time
confuses memory with hope and fear
which often looks like the future”
“It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be.”
“It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.
Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.”
“It’s not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter”
Source: Unlawful Contact
“It’s not so terrible a feeling, aloneness, or it’s so terrible it’s mind-blowing. I’ve never felt so present as I do now, every second on the brink of life and death. No sense of space or scale. I picture myself as a tiny person teetering on the rim of a glass of milk. (I don’t know why milk, I don’t like milk – a drink from childhood, perhaps, when I felt powerless.) I could go either way: lose my footing, fall in and drown, or recover my balance and survive.”
Source: To Throw Away Unopened
“It’s not solving someone’s problem. Rather, it’s solving the loneliness that they’re experiencing while they’re facing the problem.”
“It’s not some romanticized Atticus Finch-type picnic. You’d probably love it, the whole risk of it all, but it’s not without a price. Out there in this city when you pass the bar, it’s all broken dreams and out-of-reach stars. You have to be brilliant, and you have to throw away your social life, your hobbies, but more than that you can’t get your moral values mixed up with legal ethics. They’ll both clash whenever you least expect it, and when you hit a crossroad you have to know when to go left or right or when to just blindly go forward… can you do that?”
Source: Bittersweet Symphony
“It’s not something you can put your finger on, like height (though he’s taller than me) or strength (though he’s stronger than me), but there’s something there. This power. Like being ordinary is just a mask he wears.”
Source: For Real
“It's not square to say a prayer.”
Source: Destiny's Gate
“It’s not stalking when we are meant to be together. I can’t help it that I imprinted on him when I was six.”
“It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.”
Source: The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
“IT’S NOT STRESS THAT IS THE CHALLENGE. IT IS OUR REACTION TO IT.”
Source: ANXIETY HACKS
“It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.”
“It's not such a huge deal when this happens at a 7-Eleven. It's pretty huge, though, when you spend the entire job interview trying not to come across like a box of hair and you come across like a box of hair.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“It’s not such a terrible thing, grief. It means you carry a bit of your loved ones with you.”
Source: Stormblood
“It’s not such a wonderful thing, to be young,” I said. “It’s heartless, and selfish.”
“But, oh, so free,” Nod said sadly. “So free when you have no worries or cares.”
Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook