I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.”
“It was best to be pined for when you went missing.”
Source: Dear Reader: A Novel
“It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.”
“It was better for me that way because my visits could be more discreet. In a public place that is always crowded, it's hardly likely that anyone would pay attention to a teenager. I could use my 'distraction maneuver' on the surrounding people, and the security guards would not notice it on the cameras.”
Source: Changing Masks
“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”
“It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.”
“It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid past the guard, and you didn’t know how deep they were buried until they were gone and you were bleeding on the floor.”
“It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.”
Source: Winter Solstice
“It was better that a little blood should be shed that much blood should be saved. The blood that was shed was bad blood; the blood that was saved was good blood.”
“It was better that he was gone, better that he was out of my life. I knew that, logically. What I felt, though, deep, deep down in the darkest dark of my heart, was that I didn't give a damn if River was evil. I still liked him. Maybe I even kind of loved him.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
“It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.”
Source: Such A Rush
“It was better to be alone miserable. It was better to drown.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.”
Source: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
“It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?”
“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“It was better to know what people were really like than put your trust in someone who just wanted to hurt you in the end.”
Source: Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost
“It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.”
Source: Fool's Assassin
“It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.”
Source: Waldo & Magic, Inc.
“It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.”
“It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)
“It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.”
“It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.”
Source: Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.”
“It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!”
Source: Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things
“It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: "Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line."”
Source: Double Down: Game Change 2012
“It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.”
Source: A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
“It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally released from pink plastic rollers, sprang free and full, flowing down her back like a celebration. Her father called it a crown of glory.”
Source: Americanah
“It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs.”
“It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.”
Source: Sunshine
“It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.”
“It was body rush After body rush, intensity building. Touch me there.”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again.”
“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
“It was books that were victorious in the fight. A book is like a reservoir of freedom, of independent thought, a reservoir of human dignity. A book was like fresh air. We should build a monument to books … they allowed us to survive and not go mad.”
“It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.”
“It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'”
“It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.”
“It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.”
Source: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
“It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.”
“It was both terrifying and glorious in it's intensity. It was love.”
Source: Alienated
“It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.”
“It was Brian's blood, and for some reason I knew it was pure. No other man I'd held in my arms -and now, not even I- had blood this pure.”
Source: Mysterious skin: a novel
“It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.”
“It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain”
Source: Ghost Wall
“It was brightly wrapped, and the card on it read, “To Daddy from Jannie.”
“It’s fine,” I said. “What is it?”
“Not so loud,” Jannie said, whispering. “It’s a potholder.”
“A potholder?”
“Yes, we learned how to make potholders in Starlight 4-H Club. And this is for Sally.”
“A potholder?”
“Yes, and this is for Laurie, and this is for Barry.”
“A potholder for Barry?”
“Yes, because in the mornings when his cereal’s too hot. Oh, golly.” Hastily she snatched the bottom package from the box and put it under her pillow. “You weren’t supposed to see that,” she said.
“I didn’t see it,” I told her. “I never even noticed it.”
“Good,” she said, “because that’s a secret, that one. I won’t even tell you who it’s for.”
Source: Raising Demons
“It was brutal, the mortality contract. It came for everyone and no one was prepared.”
Source: The Third Hotel
“It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared. He was drinking champagne. There were strings coming out from all around me, reaching out, waving in the air. Someone passed him a brownie. He held it in his hand but did not eat. He saw my shape and face, which had not changed-the hair still parted down the middle, the chest still flat and hips undeveloped-and wanted to call out my name. It was only a moment, and then I was gone.”
“It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.”
“It was built as a prototype to prove to the rich that this was a bunker that could work. If you were careful enough, if you were rich enough, you could buy something just like this and sit in it to comfortably watch the world around you stutter to a stop as it ran out of everything you had bought up just before the end. And it wasn't the end of everything. Only the end of the things they coveted: money power and comfort. P 49”
Source: We Speak Through the Mountain