I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.”
“It's the least awkward extended eye contact of my life. It feels like we've both signed on for the same activity, and this is it: existing, at each other.”
Source: Book Lovers
“It’s the Leidensdruck concept. The literal translation is ‘the pressure of suffering’. What the concept suggests is that the suffering inherent in not acting must exceed the suffering one expects to experience if one acts. That the ‘Leidensdruck’, the pressure has to be high enough to become the impetus for moving forward, for change.”
Source: A Whisper of Solace
“It’s the lies we tell ourselves, about ourselves that we hang on to, sending our lives in the wrong direction. We talk ourselves out of our own ambitions. When we let go of this falsehood our total well-being becomes clearer and fulfilling. There’s a certain amount of confidence that will always rest with the truth. We’re capable of accomplishing anything we set out to achieve.”
“It’s the little things that keep us going.”
“It’s the little things that make life worthwhile; like breakfast in bed, every now and then.”
“It's the little things that make you want to kill someone, the way Milo drinks Diet Dr Pepper and ties his Jewfro in a bun and lifts his shirt to show off his stomach and wipes his glasses down even though they're not dirty. Yes, Milo got glasses, and seafoam green Topsiders, and a navy blue Polo-style shirt with a popped collar, and didn't I already kill this guy when he was schilling Home Soda and fucking Guinevere Beck?”
Source: Hidden Bodies
“It’s the little things we do for others that mean the most, freeing them up to take care of something else in their lives. You’ve sacrificed your own time and gave it to someone else! Giving a person more time is the most valuable gift of all.”
“It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.”
“It's the living who struggle to accept death.”
Source: Shadow Life
“It’s the living you have to be fearful of, not the monsters in your dreams”
“It's the lobby that determines which floor that you sleep on.”
“It's the longing to live as loss becomes the way to light, and all the way to God. Born again, fiery and flourishing with sun in the spirit, a luminous treasure.”
“It's the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home.”
Source: Eileen
“It’s the mark of a backward society—or a society moving backward—when decisions are made for women by men. That’s what’s happening right now in the US.”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“It’s the memories that we yearn for & cherish – not the relationship or person when sadness engulfs our heart and makes us go through the whole storyline again and again and again and again. Those memories are not even real. They are an idea of the memory formed that day – gorgeous and heartwarming – but it wasn’t always that. Was it?”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“It’s the mercy in our making that allows for these kinds of memories to win over the dark ones. Though they might haunt us and serve to protect us from harm, bad memories will always be lessened by those of light. Our survival depends on these rays of built-in grace, the thriving that urges us to hope.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“It's the middle and backbenchers who change the world, whereas toppers and front benchers only make good employees.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“It's the mind that sees, not eyes.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“It’s the mind that will win or lose today. It’s all in the head.”
Source: I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
“It's the moment I love, when a song comes to you and you decide whether or not it'll be written. It's the space between a dream and reality. Will you. Won't you? There's never as much anticipation as in that moment.”
Source: The Space Between
“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart, for the heart, too, has its night and its wild surges, as strong an instinct for the hunt as a wolf or a stag. The human night is filled with the crouching forms of dreams, desires, vanities, self-interest, mad love, envy, and the thirst for revenge, as the desert night conceals the puma, the hawk and the jackal.”
Source: Embers
“It's the moon that's making this silence,' Raskolnikov thought. 'What it's doing just now is trying to obtain the answer to a riddle.' He stood and waited, waited for a long time, and the more silent the moon, the more violently his heart thumped, until it actually started to become painful. And all the while the silence deepened.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“It’s the moral fabric that lends to behavioural pattern”
“it’s the most terrifying but most beautiful thing when you realize your path is you-shaped”
“It's the muddle-headed loyalty of friends and relations that makes a detective's life so difficult.”
Source: 13 at Dinner
“It’s the Naskar Fever, side effects include – rewriting the world, you may experience thoughts too wide, and sudden urges to dissolve divide.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“It's the nature of mind that it always wants to reach somewhere. Total acceptance also includes accepting this nature of mind. When total acceptance happens, soul awakens and mind calms down on its own.”
“It's the nature of our specialty: nothing can be explained. One can only achieve understanding on one's own. You are a command, a part of the Speech of Creation. A load-bearing structure. I told you once you were a projection. Remember? Here it is: You are a projection of the Word that is destined to reverberate. And every day you get closer to the original. You are a foundation upon which an entire universe can be built. And this cannot be explained, Sasha, it can only be understood.”
“It's the new life in her which strikes me," he said. "She's brought wealth with her and wealth is power to do the good or evil that grows in a man's soul, but she has brought something more... She has begun living with them as if her ancestors have done it for six-hundred years. And what I see is that if she had come without a penny in her pocket she would have done the same thing... She's life," he said, "She's life itself. Good God, what a thing is it for a man or a woman to be life instead of a mass of tissue and muscle and nerve dragged about by the mere mechanism of living."
Mount Dunstan about Bettina Vanderpoel”
“It's the nightmares that replace my dreams that I am afraid of.”
“It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.”
Source: Venture to the interior
“It's the odious, insufferable people who usually get to the top.”
Source: A Song Begins
“It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're 17 planning for someday and then quietly, without you ever noticing, someday today. And then someday yesterday. And this is your life.”
“It's the ones who never loved you enough that come to you when you can't sleep. You always wonder what the future might have held and you'll never know.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“It’s the ones who never loved you enough that come to you when you can’t sleep. You always wonder what the future might have held for you and you’ll never know. Maybe you almost don’t want to know.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“It's the ones who smile at you while they're plotting in the dark that I've learned to worry about.
Sometimes the monsters we fear aren't on the opposite side" Esa Khattak”
Source: A Deadly Divide
“It’s the only thing sexier than a sexy woman. A sexy woman cooking fuckin’ sausages.”
Source: Paula Spencer
“It's the only thing that brings us together now, you see. Memories. We make so many mistakes in life, young lady, but we only realize this when old age creeps up on us.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.”
Source: Three Act Tragedy
“It’s the only way to get away properly. Leave no trace.”
Source: Broken Throne
“It’s the only way to know you’re really in love, when you ask the question would it be harder to watch him die, or to know he’ll watch me die? Is there more mercy in being the one who does the watching or in being the one who does the dying? It’s when you realize what mercy-killing actually means, it’s when you actually care to the point of tormenting worry. It’s not roses and white horses, it’s fucking brutal and it can send a person running for the hills. To love is brave.”
Source: Sweet Thing
“It's the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy.
It's what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth. I'm seeing her for the first time. Not Ava Garden Wilder, the rags-to-riches granddaughter of Clyde Jones. Not a tragic, romantic heroine.
Just Ava.
And I am utterly in love.”
Source: Everything Leads to You
“It's the other part I'm not so sure about. You got any advice for me on that, Lucan?"
"Sure." The vampire grunted, his smile filled with dark amusement. "Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.”
Source: Kiss of Crimson
“It's the outcome that matters.”
Source: Squall
“It’s the outsiders who change the world.”
“It's the pencil that has the imagination to write your words.”
“It's the people closest to you eager of indignation betray you first for you are the most reliable testimony to their character.”
“It's the people that make a home, not the place.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“It’s the people that matters, not the traditions, doctrines or institutions.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana