I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s one thing to go into a fight knowing you’ll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit.”
Source: Demon Apocalypse
“It's one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it's something else altogether to recognize it when it appears. Our job is to go on being humbled and grateful that we should get to experience such a thing in our lifetimes, and preserve its magic by doing the most responsible thing possible to keep it alive . . .
Just keep saying yes.”
Source: You Are Loved . . . an email memoir
“It's one thing to have a spinal cord, another to have a backbone.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“It’s one thing to have a support system in your life
to cheer you on during the instances when
everyone is rooting for you. However, it’s another
thing entirely to look back in your darkest
moments and still see them standing in your
corner, encouraging you to stay in the ring and
FIGHT, when the odds aren’t in your favor and all
you want to do is throw in the towel.
Not many people in this life will be on your side
even when they aren’t on your side. Even less who
momentarily will slam doors out of frustration but
never actually lock you out.
Unconditional love; the definition of sister.”
Source: Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
“It's one thing to have your partner tell you he or she has multiple personalities, and it's another to walk in on your partner and find him or her sitting on the bedroom floor, speaking in a child like voice, having a tea party with stuffed animals.”
Source: Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
“It’s one thing to lose to a better opponent and quite another to beat yourself.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“It's one thing to raise three children. It's another thing altogether to raise three boys. There is a certain unique dynamic (or dynamite!) that boys bring to a household. The presence of even one girl in the home is at least some measure of comfort to a mom. There is always the hope that having one other female with which to identify might bring a calming influence on family life. But peace and quiet are usually the first of many casualties associated with an all-boy family. Mom is greatly outnumbered from the start, and she must possess the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, and the tenacity of General Patton if she is to survive the ordeal.”
“It's one thing to remember the face or voice of a dead loved one, but another to know you're standing on their actual body. Your mind can't pretend that they weren't real or deny that they're really gone forever. You're only separated by six feet of dirt, but you could dig to infinity and never get back what you lost. So we avoid. The dead always seem to make ghosts of the living.”
Source: Just Life
“It's one thing to say so in a prayer, but it's a whole other thing to match those prayers in obedience.”
Source: Called to Pray: Astounding Stories of Answered Prayer
“It’s one thing to say you hate your dad. Everyone’s dad is an asshole sometimes. But it’s different to realize you’re never going to wake up one morning and have a dad who isn’t an asshole...”
Source: Please Don't Tell
“It's one thing to say you think someone "hung the moon" but that generally means you are blind and deluded, and then the relationship fails because they say you changed, when really, they never saw you at all...The real test is if someone sees all your flaws or blemishes or individual differences, and they still think you hung the moon.”
“It’s one thing to set a goal. It’s another, however, when you get so caught up in the details that you neglect to review your progress. Reevaluation enables you to improve your aim to ensure you hit your target.”
“It's one thing to speak of humans' essential nature theoretically, another to consider it when a fist is smashing into your mouth.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.”
“It's one thing to study war
and another to live the warrior's life.
- Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth century B.C.”
Source: The War Of Art
“It’s one thing to tell your children about God, but when they experience God in their life and witness faith in action, it’s the most life-changing experience available.”
Source: The New Vintage Family: A Vintage Look for the Modern-Day Family
“It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are.”
Source: Dirty Little Secret
“It's one thing to understand what you need and mentally process the trauma you've endured. It's another thing to embody it.”
Source: Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom
“It’s one thing to win a game with a base hit, or to save a game by pitching a scoreless ninth ... it’s something altogether different to save our National Pastime by day in and day out showing up with the joy and passion of a kid playing Little League and the determined attitude and work ethic of a consummate professional bent on doing one thing and one thing only: his job.”
Source: Baltimore Orioles IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom
“It’s one way or another, Summer. For me, it’s black and white. You’re either in the friend zone or the lover zone. And with you…Gosh, Summer, you’re in my danger zone. My rip-my-heart-out and change-me-forever zone. I have to tread lightly with you. Because if I don’t, I may never be able to find my way back.”
Source: Perfect Summer
“It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in hell. Am I allowed to feel pain at a breakup? When there is so much other shit going on in this world? Love is extremely serious. I don't think this is trivial.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“It's only a little,but I feel like I've changed”
“It's only a matter of time, and mine is short.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“It's only a matter of time until the truth rises to the surface.”
Source: Drift
“It's only a nightmare, and soon we'll be set free.”
“It's only a question,
Which can obstruct the path,
And at the same time,
Pave a stronger bridge.”
“It’s only a saying. You don’t need to analyze it.”
“That’s the problem with the world. No one wants to analyze anything.”
Source: As You Wish
“It's only after you've found what you want inside of you that you can find it outside of you.”
Source: Breaking Away
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
“It's only as bad as you make it.”
Source: Barefoot in November
“It’s only as dark as the light of my attitude.”
“It's only awkward if it matters.”
“It's only by becoming familiar with poisons that you can make the best antidotes.”
Source: Destined
“It's only by owning our struggles and embracing what makes us unique that we grow.”
Source: Threads of Deception: A Suddenly French Mystery
“It’s only called CORRUPTION when you’re not Eating. Once your plate is served, suddenly it becomes CONNECTION.”
“It's only crazy if we fail.”
Source: Space Fandango: Backstabber's Blues
“It’s only fabric! Freestyle fabric cutting and sewing is a low-risk endeavor with a strong payoff of personal growth and empower- ment.”
Source: East-Meets-West Quilts: Explore Improv with Japanese-Inspired Designs
“It's only five words long—she died a year ago. And I'm out here to say goodbye. Which turns out to be a long and complicated process. I'm not sure I'll ever finish saying it.”
Source: Harry's Trees
“It’s only God Himself who can truly give validation and recognition for our actions and opinions, and His approval is what makes them worthy of all things. The feelings in our heart coming from God are the only feelings of validation we strive. It’s that spark of Godhood. For this emotional gift of morals are some of the most spiritual gifts of all.”
“It’s only gotten to the point where it’s easier for us to imagine the destruction of the world than the changing of our economic system”
Source: The Easy Chain
“It's only hard until it becomes easy.”
“It’s only history to you because you live out here and aren’t poor.”
Source: Followers
“It's only horrible if you see it that way," Morrie said. "It's horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it's also wonderful because of all the time I get to say good-bye."
He smiled. "Not everyone is so lucky.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“It's only human nature for dogs to chase motorbikes”
“It's only human nature for dogs to chase motrobikes”
“It's only in Algebra that two negatives make a positive”
“It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?”
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“It's only in silence that the lamp burns within the heart, for beyond the noise there is another world.”
“It's only in something's absence that you realize how much space it takes up.”
Source: The Lost Bookshop
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. Yes, the differences between male and female are biological, but if you look at biology as a matter of percentage, there aren't a whole lot of things that are different. Race is different purely as a social construct, not as an inherent difference. And religion - whether you believe in God or Yahweh or Allah or something else, odds are that at heart you want the same things. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”
Source: Every Day