I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.”
Source: The Painted Veil
“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”
Source: The Return
“It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.”
“It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.”
“It was a place to have a young mind challenged, to dream about the future, time to grow, explore, and discover one's place in the world.”
Source: Lanark County Collection: Winding Our Way Down Memory Lane
“It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.”
Source: Go Set a Watchman
“It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn’t worked out.”
Source: How to Be Lost
“It was a play of opportunity. It's certainly something that he can do. He has the wherewithal to do that. It's a concern when we are backed into our own endzone. The reality is I want him to take that advantage. It's like leaving a net untended and you're supposed to pass, but damn you got to take a shot. Certainly represented what we wanted to happen.”
“It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.”
“It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.”
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
“It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack 2
“It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.”
“It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?”
Source: River Secrets
“it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it meant that conversation at dinner had to be open and general rather than close and gossipy”
“It was a popular theory at the time that death didn't automatically end a marriage because the spouses would eventually be reunited in heaven. The most pragmatic reason for the Church's view was that England was a land-based society and property was inherited upon the death of a spouse, so a remarriage threatened the inheritance of any issue from the previous union.”
Source: Notorious Royal Marriages
“It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.”
“It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.”
Source: Maximum Ride: Nevermore
“It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.”
“It was a pretty good year for predators.”
“It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed.”
“It was a privilege to be president and it is a privilege to be a former president and I believe that I have got a chance to be a part of something that is influential - but not for my sake, but for the sake of people dying in Africa or people worried about a free society in their countries or people who wonder whether there will be a free market.”
“It was a problem with no solution. Whichever path she chose would be harder than she felt she could stand.”
Source: Winterkeep
“It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'”
“It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.”
“It was a proud moment in giving me the confidence, that I was 'stamped' in the offices as much, you know, as I would get from the streets. To where it's like I'm getting the love from the streets and from the people in the building - and that's kinda dope.”
“It was a psychoanalyst colleague, Dr. Stanley Coen, who suggested in the course of our working on a medical paper together that the role of the pain syndrome was not to express the hidden emotions but to prevent them from becoming conscious. This, he explained, is what is referred to as a defense. In other words, the pain of TMS (or the discomfort of a peptic ulcer, of colitis, of tension headache, or the terror of an asthmatic attack) is created in order to distract the attention of the sufferer from what is going on in the emotional sphere. It is intended to focus one's attention on the body instead of the mind. It is a response to the need to keep those terrible, antisocial, unkind, childish, angry, selfish feelings (the prisoners) from becoming conscious. It follows from this that far from being a physical disorder in the usual sense, TMS is really part of a psychological process.”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“It was a psychoanalyst colleague, Dr. Stanley Coen, who suggested in the course of our working on a medical paper together that the role of the pain syndrome was not to express the hidden emotions but to prevent them from becoming conscious. This, he explained, is what is referred to as a defense. In other words, the pain of TMS (or the discomfort of a peptic ulcer, of colitis, of tension headache, or the terror of an asthmatic attack) is created in order to distract the attention of the sufferer from what is going on in the emotional sphere. It is intended to focus one's attention on the body instead of the mind. It is a response to the need to keep those terrible, antisocial, unkind, childish, angry, selfish feelings (the prisoners) from becoming conscious. It follows from this that far from being a physical disorder in the usual sense, TMS is really part of a psychological process. (page 56)”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“It was a puzzle for men how women never got tired of shopping, even if there was nothing to buy”
Source: An Involuntary Spy
“It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did.”
Source: News of the World
“It was a queer, rather disgusting scene. Below were the handful of simple, well-meaning people, trying hard to worship; and above were the hundred men whom they had fed, deliberately making worship impossible. A ring of dirty, hairy faces grinned down from the gallery, openly jeering. What could a few women and old men do against a hundred hostile tramps? They were afraid of us, and we were frankly bullying them. It was our revenge upon them for having humiliated us by feeding us.
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A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor—it is a fixed characteristic of human nature; and, when he has fifty or a hundred others to back him, he will show it.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”
Source: the bell jar
“It was a question of insurmountable proportions. A single word that held every fear he had ever had-and every wish he had ever made on those cursed stars. She needn't say more. In a single syllable, she had said more than he wanted to hear in an entire lifetime.”
Source: Sand for Dreams
“It was a question that had always haunted me and yet I could never answer it unequivocally. “Where are you from?” Why do people always ask this? What exactly do they expect to hear? They probably want to define a certain cultural frame of reference for themselves, and accordingly, place me in one of their pre-existing templates. This will allow us to carry on a conversation comfortably, but why does everyone think you want to go through this interrogation over and over again?”
Source: Clochard
“It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“It was a quietness that left the dammed singing.
The dead can't sing, it's just a deception.
Through a breeze, they murmur their tune.
Is the breeze in the cemetery truly dead individuals singing?
Chilly, blusterous shouts of shallow woes, it's indeed them singing.”
“It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.”
“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.”
Source: On the Road
“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.”
“It was a rare dummy that invested itself too much in caring for humans, deaf to their input and condescending to them as a rule.”
Source: The Road to Vent Haven
“It was a rare moment to cherish, although a
common and simple moment, but aren’t most precious moments made of ordinary things merely perfectly arranged? --- Tares among the Wheat, Volume II, H. Melvin James”
“It was a rare time in history when a man chose to believe a girl when doubting her provided a more straightforward narrative.”
Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
“It was a rather cute reaction, but as I wasn’t a part of any of that, I didn't give a damn.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2
“It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.”
Source: Code Name Verity
“It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.”
“It was a real book-- onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.”
Source: Leviathan Wakes
“It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.”
“It was a real eye opener and I'm really pleased that I spent a year out there [in Real Madrid].”