I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”
Source: The Border Trilogy
“It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.”
“it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.”
Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life
“It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come in in addition to the existing paid parental leave scheme.”
“It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team.”
“It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.”
Source: Keeping the Moon
“It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.”
“It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.”
“It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.”
“It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this”
“It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.”
“It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.”
“It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.”
“It was always nice to meet someone who understood exactly where you were coming from. Somebody who knew that when women dated other women, the whole idea of a sisterhood went out the window. Nobody could break your heart like a woman.”
Source: It Started with a Kiss
“It was always once springtime in my heart.”
Source: De Profundis
“It was always part of the plan to move into acting.”
“It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.”
“It was always said you couldn't have two sisters less alike. In a way [princess] Elizabeth was always internalizing everything and [princess] Margaret was always externalizing everything, so that became the basis. The storyline becomes about these two sisters: they're fighting for their position or trying to establish their identity in the world alongside each other and in relation to this establishment which only those two were a part of.”
“It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.”
Source: The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition
“It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.”
“It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.”
“It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.”
“It was always summer and the future called
We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all
And there was so much left to dream
And so much time to make it real”
“It was always that I finished one movie and then had no idea what I was doing. I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.”
“It was always that way with cruelty, Sigismund knew — it did not have to sacrifice, or struggle; it had only to be patient.”
Source: Sigismund: The Eternal Crusader
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“It was always the magic of those dense snowfalls that bedecked the landscape in a whitened splendor and rendered the horizon cloaked to invisibility in winter’s frosty veil. And in the rapture of such moments, you find yourself pressed beyond any and all means of resistance to hold onto anything except the majesty of the ascending moment. And being held a willing hostage, it takes but a moment of these moments to realize that everything around you has been swept up in just the same way, leaving you joined with the whole of creation that is both quieted in awe, but likewise raucous in praise. And I wonder (in some very remote way), if the first Christmas night might have been something like this.”
“It was always the most fun thing in the world to think of a joke area and talk about it with someone like Jim Carrey, and then he would get on stage fearlessly and tear the house down. That's something I always enjoyed. It also allowed me to not be terrified.”
“It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war.”
Source: The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
“It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart.”
Source: Becoming a Humor Being: The Power to Choose a Better Way
“It was always the pretty streets that hid the ugliest
stories. She’d learned that the hard way.”
Source: Secrets
“It was always the same now, the ghost always coming between her and her life in the world, so much more important, since that lost being was still her only companion, and their now-obsolete relationship the one true human contact she would ever have.”
Source: Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories
“It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.”
“It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
Source: Atonement
“It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
Source: Atonement: The Shooting Script
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
Source: 1984
“It was always to free up some part of themselves that never would've come to light. Now they could burst free. And this part of themselves that was freed pointed directly toward where they would feel at home in the world.”
Source: Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives
“It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.”
Source: Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
“It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.”
“It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.”
“It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.”
“It was always wise to pick your battles and this was one they could not win. Not, yet, anyway.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV, always blooming in her at unexpected moments, and even on the move, scuffing down the hall toward Doodle's room, the thought of evading it called it into being. Sadness. The word itself didn't do the feeling justice. What she felt was a more complicated alchemy of emotion, equal parts grief and loneliness and longing, with measures of resentment and self-pity drizzled in.”
“It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.”
“It was always you.”
Source: The Lone Wolf's Wish
“It was amazing and scary at the same time. Having a dream is fantastic! Changing its status from "Dream" to "Reality", is freaking awesome, but it scares you to death in the beginning,”
Source: THE UNSTOPPABLE THIRST : El Camino de Santiago de Compostela An Alchemic Path Towards The Inner Self
“It was amazing - horrifyingly amazing - that the silver blood spilled in that violent struggle could provoke nature into existence. Unlike human blood, which only ever signified loss. Pain. Absence.”
Source: The Stardust Thief
“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
Source: Get Rich or Get Lucky
“It was amazing how complex the domino effect was. One small comment or event could transform the world in ways unknown. There were positive and negative ways to address situations that could alter things for the better or worse—like inspiring the man to love himself a little more and strive to improve his condition.”
Source: The Royal Matchmaking Competition: Princess Qloey