I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It's true; the heart within me is wild, fierce, kind and feeling. And I don't mean this in concept or in theory. I mean this palpably and realistically.”
“It's true. The older you get, the more you stop caring about other’s opinions of you. It is a freeing feeling.”
“It's true. The storms won't last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel.”
“It’s true—there are only, like, two songs about rainbows, including that one. He should be asking why there are so few songs about rainbows.”
Source: Must've Done Something Good
“It's true, these last few years I've lived
watching myself in the act of loss—the art of losing,
Elizabeth Bishop called it, but for me no art
only badly-done exercises
acts of the heart forced to question
its presumptions in this world its mere excitements
acts of the body forced to measure
all instincts against pain
acts of parting trying to let go
without giving up yes Elizabeth
a city here
a village there a sister, comrade, cat
and more no art to this but anger”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.”
Source: After Dark
“It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invisible bars of the lives we have somehow carelessly constructed for ourselves, despite our youthful promises to ourselves. We see adults who are stagnant and miserable as we grow up. They graffiti the walls behind them with their mistakes and we swear secret oaths that we will heed those warnings. We’re much too clever, we know all the shortcuts and the back alleys.”
Source: Waking Up at Rembrandt's
“It's true what the folktale says: I did choose to live with the beast. But not for the reason you think. Not to save my father. Not even to save myself.
In truth, I was hoping I'd be eaten.”
Source: Beauty Reborn
“It’s true what they say about men in New York. They all work too much. Devote too much time to their careers, not enough to love, to family.”
Source: In Limbo
“It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time, nor status, nor chance.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.”
Source: The Crimson Crown
“It's true what they say, you know. First fuck. First love. First kill. You never forget your first.”
Source: Cease and Desist
“It’s truly an illusion is so wildly amusing.
That the difference between me and you. Inside this room. Is simply a point of view.”
“It's truly sad when a person with vision blames others and doesn't accept responsibility for personal actions and shortcomings.”
“It's truthfully difficult growing up a woman. When I was a girl, we lived in a small town for the most part and nobody cared to know about anything other than what they already knew. And I was something they didn't know. I really think it was harder for me than the average... girls hate you when you're adorable. Every girl in a small town wants to be the only one worth loving and I've always just had this champagne-bottle personality, unafraid to be soft. But girls took that from me, they really did. They hurt me until I had to toughen up. The best thing about being a woman is that, by now, I've learned how becoming even more like myself is more powerful than any tough exterior I could ever put on. They hate that. It really kills them.”
“It’s
twilight in the vineyard, and the red night
rises from a troubled woman’s
glass of wine.”
Source: Lightning Falls in Love
“It's two A.M. "To sleep or to write that is the question?" Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of my piss poor punctuation or take arms against a sea of keys with so many new possibilities.”
Source: Return to Stantasyland
“It's two o'clock in the morning and I'm not sure I've slept.”
Source: The Birds, The Bees, and You and Me
“It’s two things; you either choose to take risks through storms and win after the hail or you remain idle and die idle. Once laziness is deliberate; failure is not an accident!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“It's ugly, but is it art?”
Source: Pictures from an Institution
“It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“It's unbearable that the sun rises again, that Maya is here and not Benji, for the rest of her life she will stop almost daily and think: "Would he be proud of me? Have I lived a worthy life? Been a good enough person?" Because of course that's all she is, all everyone she grew up with in Beartown is: hopelessly simple but horribly complicated. Ordinary, unusual people. Unusually ordinary people. We try to just live our lives, live with each other, live with ourselves. Accepting joy when we find it, bearing grief when it finds us, and being amazed at our children's happiness without falling apart when we think that we can never really protect them.”
Source: The Winners
“It's unclear whether Brauser was trying to hit Franz Josef or Rangi. I hope it was the former. There's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim.”
Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“it's unexpected pain brings change in a person's life. this change brings slowly transformation in same person”
“It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”
Source: If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
“It's unfair."
As a rule, life is unfair," I said.
Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things."
To Dick?"
Yeah."
I pulled the car over to the shoulder of the road and turned off the ignition. "That's just stupid, that kind of thinking," I said, nailing her with my eyes. "Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“It's unfair, Malkiel thought. It's unfair for Israel to separate us while it should bring us closer. Help us, Father, as you have helped so many others.”
Source: The Forgotten
“It's unfair to hire someone and expect success if you aren't providing any sales training or support.”
“It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“It’s unfortunate really—how everyone can live on the same soil yet not even know the first thing about their neighbors.”
Source: The Conversation Starts Here: A Perspective of Self, Culture, and the American Society
“It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real.”
Source: Natural Beauty
“It’s unfortunate that I’m just now living. Don’t be like me. Live and soak up every single moment. Lean into them, even the moments that terrify you. That’s how you know you’re alive.”
Source: Colliding With Fate
“It’s unfortunate that inflated self-worth is being mistaken for confidence when it’s really an indication of the opposite. True confidence is reflected through humility, vulnerability and kindness. It’s quiet. It’s subtle. It does not overwhelm. It does not shrink others down to elevate oneself and it doesn’t not knock others down to give the illusion of being above.”
“It's unfortunate that the more annoyed she gets, the prettier she looks.”
Source: Queen of the Night
“It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“It’s universally known that the more forbidden something is, the more desirable it becomes. I feel this truth like a fist around my balls as I enter my classroom after lunch and find the forbidden object of my desire waiting for me.”
Source: Dark Notes
“It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water.”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“it's unrealistic to expect work systems that have existed for years or even decades to be completely transformed in a matter of months. Any consultant who tells you that it's likely, or even possible, should be shown the door”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.”
Source: The Color Master: Stories
“It’s unsettling when you read a story about anthropomorphic animals, and the animals can’t decide whether or not they wear clothing. (Note that Catterton cats aren’t anthropomorphic; they’re simply cats themselves.) You sit there asking yourself, “For heaven’s sake, do these animals have a sense of modesty? If some are clothed, are the others considered naked?”
Source: Catterton
“It's unsurprising that intelligent people spend the most time with themselves because, as the saying goes, we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with.”
“It’s unthinkable, now to live as her parents had done, going to work from nine to five and enjoying the benefits of the newly-formed health and education services. What paradise it had seemed! Now, in order to pay their exorbitant mortgages, and ever more exorbitant fuel prices, British adults have to work long hours – the longest, it is said, in Europe… Everyone they know, everyone they see, is just like them, living in houses like these, reading the same papers, seeing the same films and TV programmes and plays, buying from the same shops and sending their children to the same schools; and they think it will go on for ever, either ever-mounting property prices cushioning them. But it can’t.”
“It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.”
“It's unwise to make plans based on hope. In business, prudence is greater than hope and strategy is greater than wishing. Be ambitious, make your affirmations, and have faith - but also be prudent and practical.”
“It's unwise to waste resources, and it's also unwise to waste capacity. Every system should maximize utilization.”
“It’s up to Illuminists alone. No one else is coming. We are against everyone. We are enormously outnumbered and surrounded, yet victory is certain to be ours ... because we are the Gnostic Legion of Reason and Knowledge, and we shall command the cosmic forces that can defeat any odds.”
Source: Contra Mundum
“It's up to poets to revive the gods.”
Source: Dead Man's Float
“It’s up to the individual to imagine that everything has been predestined into his life, or to realise that he’s capable to shape and re-shape his own destiny.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“It's up to the owner of a blanket to sleep on the blanket or to sleep in the blanket.”
Source: My Two Selves and I