I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's okay to want things, Cole. It's okay to go after them, too.”
Source: Blind the Eyes
“It's okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites.”
“It's okay, we can go back from this." It comes out of his mouth so kind - he means it - and it just makes me feel worse. That he can kiss me like this and change everything, but still promise me nothing has to change because I can't promise him anything.”
“It's okay, we got out the other side alive, didn't we? It took twenty years to get there, but we did it.”
“It's okay. You don't have to worry about anything. That's because I'm here.”
Source: バッカーノ！1933 ＜下＞ THE SLASH 〜チノアメハ、ハレ〜
“It's okay, you know?'
'What is?'
'Everything that you're feeling,' he said. 'And everything that you're not.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.”
Source: Graveminder
“It's okay", you say, perhaps more to yourself than to him. Like if you keep telling yourself that it's okay, then it will be.”
Source: Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter
“It's old. Really old.
Is that a technical term?”
“It's old. Really old.
Is that a technical term?
Yeah, it's technical. Translation: I don't know how old it is, but it's really fucking old.”
“It's old. Really old.
Is that a technical term?
Yeah, it's technical. Translation: I don't know how old it is, but it's really fucking old.
Wow. That is old.”
“It's old-school to write by hand, but Jess likes the way the words blossom under her fingertips [. . .] These scribblings and imaginings are for no one else.”
Source: Not Your Sidekick
“It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“it's on purpose that
everything here only feels like you…
that's how you know that
this is your path.”
“It’s on the house,” he said, which I thought was the dumbest thing, because if there is anyone that should be getting free food, it isn’t rich people.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It’s on the third night, during our game, that I answer the question eating away at me. Crazy Cat becomes a metaphor for my situation. I am Buttercup. Peeta, the thing I want so badly to secure, is the light. As long as Buttercup feels he has the chance of catching the elusive light under his paws, he’s bristling with aggression.
(That’s how I’ve been since I left the arena, with Peeta alive.) When the light goes out completely, Buttercup’s temporarily distraught and confused, but he recovers and moves on to other things. (That’s what would happen if
Peeta died.) But the one thing that sends Buttercup into a tailspin is when I leave the light on but put it hopelessly out of his reach, high on the wall, beyond even his jumping skills. He paces below the wall, wails, and can’t be comforted or distracted. He’s useless until I shut the light off. (That’s what Snow is trying to do to me now, only I don’t know what form his game takes.)”
Source: Mockingjay
“It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.”
Source: Athena the Brain
“It's one of my jobs to fret about his arteries, one of the many personal responsibilities that men subconsciously off-load onto their wives, not because they're all jerks but because that's just part of the labor agreement. Unmarried men, it's true, die fatter, younger, filthier, sadder, than their married friends, if they even have friends, because that's another thing a wife is responsible for, friends, except I'm a bust in that department, which is why I have to go extra hard on his arteries.”
Source: Motherthing
“It's one of my own recipes: peach crème brûlée with a brandy crust." She paraded it past Daniel's eyes. "See," she said, "I made your favorite. Of course I perfected it considerably these past few weeks." She kept walking and deposited the dish in front of Troy. She poured over it a good douse of brandy, then rummaged in her apron and drew forth a long match. One flick and the brûlée ignited in a crown of blue flames. Troy's eyes widened with childish pleasure.
"Here you go, my big man." Her spoon crunched into the caramelized topping and reemerged with rich, creamy, peachy dessert. On the plate, the velvety brûlée glistened with delicious, crackly caramel. Jasmine pushed forward a glass of Robert Mondavi's luscious Moscato d'Oro.
"Bon appétit.”
Source: How to Cook a Tart
“It's one of our ironies about fighting life: we wish for a fighter heart without getting surprised by a fighting situation.”
“it’s one of the darkest feelings
i’ve ever known… unworthy.
and maybe i want to learn to start
questioning it when i feel it.
like… is it always even mine?
because if it's from someone else…
someone else's unkindness, or judgment,
or their own unworthiness they’re projecting…
then i want to learn to say no.
i think maybe my own battles would get a little
easier to face if i wasn't also fighting the
ones that aren't even mine.”
“It’s one of the few places I don’t have overwhelming anxiety. Nobody looks at me strangely or thinks I’m different. I can read and listen to music and pet my cats. I can work and research. I can do whatever I want and feel like a normal fucking human.”
Source: My Torin
“It’s one of the game’s slogans: 'there are no status quos in Apocalypse World.”
Source: Apocalypse World
“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man."
"And memory."
"Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.”
Source: East of Eden
“It's one of the mistakes most people do… not the minority… but the most.. the majority people is to have books or to buy books never to read them… never to finish them.”
“It's one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child... 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' As if growing up is finite. As if, at some point, you become something and that's the end.”
Source: Becoming
“It's one of the rules for dying girls: if you like something, like it hard, because you don't have a lot of time to waste.”
Source: A Spindle Splintered
“It's one of the things Cam and I discussed last evening- he said it's characteristic of Hathaway women, this need for demonstrations of affection."
Amused and fascinated, Poppy made a face. "What else did he say?"
Harry's mood altered with quicksilver speed. He threw her a dazzling grin. "He compared it to working with Arabian horses... they're responsive, quick, but they need their freedom. You never master an Arabian... you become its companion." He paused. "At least, I think that's what he said. I was half dead from exhaustion, and we were drinking brandy."
"That sounds like Cam." Poppy raised her gaze heavenward. "And after dispensing this advice, he sent you to me, the horse."
Harry stopped and pulled her against him, nudging her braid aside to kiss her neck. "Yes," he whispered. "And what a nice ride it was.”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“It's one of the things I love about motorsports - you're always learning, always having to adapt and develop. It's not like tennis, where the rackets might change a bit but everything else stays the same. If you're in motorsport, the formulas are always changing. The regulations, the tyres, the power, the type of engine. It keeps you excited.”
Source: Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
“It's one of the things I love about motorsports - you're always learning, always having to adapt. It's not like tennis, where the rackets might change a bit but everything else stays the same. If you're in motorsport, the formulas are always changing. The regulations, the tyres, the power, the type of engine. It keeps you excited.”
“It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.”
Source: Death Masks
“It's one of the two major fears of people. 'Cause one is social humiliation. And the other is something like mortality and death.”
“It's one of the worst tendencies of human nature to assume that being alone necessarily means being unhappy. Isn't solitude the most profound way to embrace and understand the beauty of life?”
“It's one of those dumb days where nothing's really wrong but nothing's really right either and the sky can't even choose to be white or gray.”
Source: Anatomy of a Misfit
“It's one of those nights again, isn't it?
The kind where the stars seem to tell their stories.”
Source: Endlewood
“It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.”
Source: The American Dream & The Zoo Story
“It's one small mercy that here in prison we don't see anyone we don't choose to see. In this way, prison is beautifully unlike real life. In real life, people from your past litter your life like cockroaches, popping out of crevices and scuttling across the dark.”
Source: A Certain Hunger
“It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“It's one thing that happened, not the only thing.”
Source: Summer Darlings
“It's one thing to admire a man's work. It's another to get your picture in the paper doing it." General Clayton”
“It's one thing to be bitter about the circumstances of your birth, but another to drill your bitterness into the head of someone going through a rough time.”
Source: The Council
“It's one thing to be buried, but another thing entirely to be buried alive.”
Source: Home in a Hundred Places
“It's one thing to be powerless and another to be useless.”
Source: Infinity Son
“It's one thing to Connect and it's another thing to Communicate”
“It’s one thing to deconstruct and analyze and condemn the institutions of patriarchy and their flaws.
It’s another one to feel their bruises on your skin, and their grasping hands pulling your hair and covering your mouth as you scream.”
“It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by the bulls in Pamplona. It's something else to go home and visit with the folks in Reed's drugstore on the square and actually listen to them. The reason you can't go home again is not because the down-home folks are mad at you--they're not, don't flatter yourself, they couldn't care less--but because once you're in orbit and you return to Reed's drugstore on the square, you can stand no more than fifteen minutes of the conversation before you head for the woods, head for the liquor store, or head back to Martha's Vineyard, where at least you can put a tolerable and saving distance between you and home. Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.”
Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“It’s one thing to disappoint others and quite another to let yourself down.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“It’s one thing to fail your whole life and then become successful because of your failures, it’s another thing entirely to repeat the process after you have fallen from the success you once had as the memories of success will attempt to creep into your mind and cripple you, Don’t Let it stand back up, dust yourself off and keep walking”
“It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found the oldest tree of all, a black oak bigger than twelve men could encircle with their arms, and I knew it for the one Na called Heart of The Wood. Dolls of twigs and shucks dangled from its branches: right side up to cure barreness, upside down to bring on a miscarriage. Mudwomen had dared to put them there, knowing that if the kingsmen had caught them in the woods out of turn, they might also hang from those branches.”
Source: Firethorn
“It’s one thing to get up on the wrong side of the bed and quite another to live your life that way.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose