I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.”
Source: What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers
“It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.”
Source: New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire
“It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.”
Source: Hetalia: Axis Powers, Vol. 2
“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
Source: Selected essays
“It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love”
Source: These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
“It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world. And in doing so, we lose the ability to wonder about something central-something philosophers try to restore. For somewhere inside ourselves, something tells us that life is a huge mystery. This is something we once experienced, long before we learned to think the thought.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“It seems as if the education system is rapidly forgetting that people can feel better about themselves when they succeed through, in some cases, multiple failures.”
Source: No Diploma Left Behind
“It seems as if we can't go right, or do right, or be righted”
Source: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth
“It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.”
Source: The Prodigal Women
“It seems as though every joy that comes to one must have a grief to spoil it.'
'It is so, but think instead, dearest, that every grief has joy to lighten it. Nothing in this world is quite perfect, nor quite unbearable.”
Source: An Infamous Army
“It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.”
“It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.”
“It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.”
“It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.”
“It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.”
Source: War and Peace
“It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.”
“It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.”
“It seems as though the voice of man
Will never sound in this place,
But only wind from age of stone
Is knocking on black gates.
It seems to me that I alone
Have kept good health under this sky,
Because of this, that first I sought
To drink the deadly wine.
Parting, Evening and slanting,
Downward goes my way.
Yesterday in love still,
"Don't forget" you prayed.
Now there's only shepherds'
Cry, and glancing winds,
And the worried cedars
Stand by clear springs.”
“It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.”
“It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.”
“It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.”
“It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.”
“It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.”
“It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen to Kid A twice, or poring over the lurid covers of horror paperbacks in a newly discovered corner of Foyle Street library. How is my mother's passing even part of the same universe that gave me the simple pleasures of ice cream after swimming lessons in William Street baths, or scenting the sun cream on girls' skin as they daubed polish on their outstretched, nonchalant nails. My life wasn't over from that point on. I'd laugh and cry and scream about borrowed jumpers, school fights, bomb scares, playing Zelda, teenage bands, primary-school crushes and yet more ice cream after yet more swimming lessons. I'd just be doing it without her. To some extent, I'd be doing it without a memory of her. The most dramatic moment of my life wasn't scored by wailing sirens, weeping angels or sad little ukuleles, nimbly plucked on lonely hillsides. Mammy's death was mostly signalled by tea, sandwiches, and an odd little boy in corduroy trousers, announcing it with a smile across his face.”
Source: Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
“It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.”
“It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.”
Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader
“It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.”
“It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.”
“It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.”
Source: Autobiography
“It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.”
“It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the window appear against the branches of a spreading tree. With a shock of emotion one feels 'There are figures without features robed in beauty'. In the pause that follows while the ripples spread, the girl to whom one should be talking says to herself, 'He is old'. But she is wrong. It is not age; it is that a drop has fallen; another drop. Time has given the arrangement another shake. Out we creep from the arch of the currant leaves, out into a wider world. The true order of things – this is our perpetual illusion – is now apparent. Thus in a moment, in a drawing-room, our life adjusts itself to the majestic march of day across the sky.”
Source: The Waves
“It seems contradictory, but if you want your child to be adventurous, you need to cuddle her more. If you want your child to always be close, you need to applaud her explorations. Some children need a little push out of the nest, but never give the shove without an unlimited free pass for coming back home. Children of all ages need to be able to regress sometimes, pretending to be younger than they really are. They need to know they can cuddle with you or check back with you any time they want. Other children will race away recklessly and need to be held in check a little. Don’t hold them back, however, without a clear message that you’re eager for them to try their wings, once they can do it a bit more safely. Otherwise, the clingy children will just cling tighter or stumble out into the world unprepared. Conversely, the reckless child will just rush out even more impulsively or catch the parent’s anxiety and become fearful.”
Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.”
“It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.”
“It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.”
“It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.”
“It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.”
“It seems either shortsighted or willfully ignorant to be so pissed off at one of the key reasons for your own being, however horrific the circumstances around it were—unless you would have rather you’d never been born at all.”
Source: In Limbo
“It seems Elon Musk follows a policy of halving the staff and making the remaining staff work twice as many hours in companies he acquires!”
“It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!”
“It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.”
“It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.”
“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”
“It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.”
“It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.”
“It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.”