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 sufficient to know that something is wrong. You also have to appreciate why it is wrong, how things might be changed, and then persuade others of the new possibilities.”
Source: 7 Principles for Exceptional Performance: Develop Purpose, Motivation & Leadership Skills
“It's not supposed to reflect reality...Reality is all well and good. But sometimes you just want to pretend the world is a better place than it actually is. That great and wonderful things can happen. That love triumphs over everything.”
Source: Field Notes on Love
“It's not surprising, I don't think, that in the midst of this indiscriminate killing, many of the Westerners doing the most active work in opposing genocide are Jews. Here is love born of pain, if the past century's most horrific crime, love of one's own spread outward into love of another. Whatever the empire is, it has no idea what to do with this kind of love, which adheres neither to the empire’s own central principle of self-interest nor to the adjoining principle that solidarity is only with one’s own, that love for one’s people may never become love for another.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“It's not surrendering to the Universe, he told me, if all you're doing is sitting around waiting for it to turn out like you hope.
—Partial Surrender”
Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings
“It's not synthetic; it's from before the war, made from genuine mash.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“It's not technology that does the harm, it's the person wielding it.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“It’s not terribly fashionable any more to like bread. It’s sort of lucky that I’ve never managed to be fashionable, because I’ve always loved bread: I love it wholeheartedly and overwhelmingly. Sometimes I think there is no meal – no matter how thoughtful or beautiful or delicious”
Source: Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
“IT’S NOT THAT ANYONE CAN BE A HERO, BUT THAT A HERO CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. BUT THE KEY IS THAT THEY HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING INSIDE THEM. A SPARK. A SENSE OF MORALITY. A YEARNING.”
Source: Screenwriting 101 by Film Crit Hulk!
“It's not that bikini waxing is a foreign concept to me, but . . . I mean, I guess it kind of is. Like, it's one of those girl habits that's so far beyond me, it makes me feel like a different species. Do boys require hairless vaginas? Is this a known thing?”
Source: The Upside of Unrequited
“It's not that difficult, I want to say. People cheat all the time. The reasons are always selfish and base, it's the excuses we make that are complicated.”
Source: Behind Her Eyes
“It's not that difficult you see,
To be all that you can be;
For the true secret to success,
Is simply this...
ALWAYS do your best.”
“It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.”
“It’s not that fact of him telling me he’s not going to kill me that assures me I’ve got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey’s good and cigarettes are better and I’d still need a drink and a Lucky to believe he’s not lying. The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a room, he mutters lies to himself to keep from falling into the trap of truth-telling. In the day, sleeping in his bed, deep in the safest heart of Coalition headquarters, he dreams in lies. The better to keep his left hand from knowing what betrayals his right has planned.
Stretched on the rack and burned with hot irons, Dexter Predo will be in no danger of revealing the truth. Living so far beyond its borders.”
Source: Every Last Drop
“It’s not that geese can fly. It’s that they choose to.”
“It’s not that God can’t rescue us. It’s that we choose not to be rescued because we’re too blind to see the necessity of it.”
“It's not that God is not pursuing me. Rather, it's that I'm not pursuing Him. So if I'm pursuing a reason for the fact that I'm alone, the pursuit is over.”
“It's NOT that hard but hard to 'Believe' to Live a life based on Love and Kindness.”
“It’s not that he returns because it’s meant to be. He returns because you are an easy target for him to practice his inability to be emotionally present.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago--he's choosing a world in which no one has to die.”
Source: This Shattered World
“It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished." - 140”
“It’s not that I avoid protests, I’m just waiting for the right cause, like one where people march in support of freeing themselves from their own stupid behavior.”
“It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make choices in life and I choose you.
My heart belongs to you. And I'm not asking for it back, even if you won't want it anymore. I'm just asking for a chance to have your again. I promise I'll be more careful with it this time.”
Source: The Perfect Game
“It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.”
Source: An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
“It's not that I couldn't love you more
I loved you in a way I thought you deserved
You thought you deserved more
I just didn't see It”
“It’s not that I cry because I miss him, its because I know our paths won’t cross for another thousand years or so.”
“It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect and my emotions. The Puritan Jonathan Edwards likened his reawakening to the gospel to a man who had known, in his head, that honey was sweet, but for the first time had that sweetness burst alive in his mouth.”
Source: Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
“It's not that I dislike you; it's only that in your presence I can't like myself.”
“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. (...) If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“It’s not that I don’t believe in God. Rather, it’s that I don’t believe in not believing in God.”
“It’s not that I don’t care anymore… It’s just that caring started to hurt more than letting go.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“It’s not that I don’t have a long-term plan, it's just that mine is to indulge extravagant short-term plans for as long as possible.”
“It’s not that I don’t like cats. And really, I think I would enjoy having… a cat. But what if I get a cat before I’m ready? What if I choose the wrong cat? Or what if I’m bad at it… being a cat owner, I mean?”
Source: Losing It
“It's not that I don't like surprises.
I just don't always respond to them well.
You see, typically think before I speak. I deliberate before I act. But surprises...
They make it impossible to use reason and logic.
(Viscount Bardon, Maxwell)
Perhaps that's the beauty of surprises. (Miss Rebecca)”
Source: Miss Rebecca's Rebellious Viscount
“It's not that I don't like you. I like you too much. So does Felipe. That's the problem." Marcelo”
Source: Playing with Fire: A forbidden romance set in São Paulo, Brazil
“It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.”
“It's not that I forgot; it just stopped bothering me. It was the strangest thing.”
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“It’s not that I hate everyone outside of England. I don’t. I don’t hate people from Syria, Afghanistan or Somalia. How could I? I don’t know them. How could I hate someone I don’t even know? That would take a special kind of madness. But if they refuse to make a useful contribution to society then we should send them back where they came from because we just can’t afford them anymore. It’s 10.30 p.m. and my front door’s locked. Why? Certainly not because I hate everyone OUTSIDE the front door, but because I love everyone INSIDE.
Nobody’s telling me not to not to lock my front door. Or are they? The EU certainly is.”
Source: Gunpowder Soup
“It's not that I have something to hide, I have nothing I want you to see”
“It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed.”
Source: Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing
“It's not that I'm angry;
You've done nothing wrong.
I'm just not sure why I'm staying
When you're already gone.”
Source: The Words
“It's not that I'm not occasionally interested in romance, or even just sex. It's just that the chances of my interest coinciding with opportunity and, more important, physical energy are very remote."
Rachel frowned. "You guys make it very hard for us single women to look forward to having kids."
Angie and I spoke in unison. "Good.”
Source: The Garden of Small Beginnings
“It’s not that I’m particularly worried about growing old. Nor am I all that bothered about wrinkles, grey hair and all that. BUT. Major but. I don’t like the idea of dying – not when i have so much left to do! That, people, is the rather unwelcome realisation that strikes me now and then, namely that the number of years ahead of me are fewer than the ones behind me, and while I have ticked off a lot of items on that mental list of mine, there are so many things left. Like riding through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in my hair, to mention one.”
“It’s not that I’m suffering inside a prison. It’s that I am the prison. I’m the cell, the bars, the locked door, and the scream no one hears.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“It's not that I'm unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it's that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true.”
Source: Tom Lake
“It’s not that I normally avoid thinking about my Mom. I think about her every day, of course, and feel how much I miss her. But I always make sure not to wade in above my chest.”
Source: Robin (1993-2009) #102 (Robin
“It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.”
“It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.”
Source: An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
“It's not that I wait for you.
It's that my arms are doors I cannot close.”
“It's not that I want to work for Williams-Sonoma, per se, it's just that you guys have the money and I don't.”
“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.”
Source: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution