I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young woman, for about three months in weekly psychotherapy, dealing with the ravages of her terrible history of early abuse. One day I opened the door to my waiting room and saw her standing there provocatively, dressed in a miniskirt, her hair dyed flaming red, with a cup of coffee in one hand and a snarl on her face. “You must be Dr. van der Kolk,” she said. “My name is Jane, and I came to warn you not to believe any the lies that Mary has been telling you. Can I come in and tell you about her?” I was stunned but fortunately kept myself from confronting “Jane” and instead heard her out. Over the course of our session I met not only Jane but also a hurt little girl and an angry male adolescent. That was the beginning of a long and productive treatment.”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“It was early in my dream, I was but a child, I was new to the world, freshly broken from the whole to be a single part. Now I am new no more, I am decidedly worn out.”
Source: The Wax Child
“It was early, late, lockjaw hour.”
Source: Venus Drive
“It was early on when I was really focused and obsessed with doing The Tonight Show and Letterman and stuff like that. Then, I quickly realized that those things don't make or break a career.”
“It was early spring, 326 BC, in the beautiful city of Chersonesus protected by a haunting deep blue sea and a giant wall. Today was the second day of the Festival of Dionysus.”
Source: True Love
“It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change.”
Source: Monkey Grip
“It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don’t like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn’t speak that language. They didn’t learn it as children and they didn’t manage to pick it up as adults, either.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“It was easier for Hitler to start WWII than it was for him to face a blank square canvas.”
Source: THE WAR OF ART: Winning The Inner Creative Battle
“It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower's faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“It was easier for me to ignore police corruption than to get involved with documenting it. Socially and ethically, I had to become a police corruption researcher due to my numerous unfortunate experiences with corrupt and incompetent police officers.”
“It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.”
“It was easier not to face judgment, especially from your own kind.”
Source: The Marriage of Opposites
“It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.”
“It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?”
“It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.”
“It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomination for sainthood. He's not sure he can keep up this exhausting, aw-shucks façade for much longer.”
Source: A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
“it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts”
Source: The Hobbit
“It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.”
“It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.”
“It was easier to cry alone. No people or mirrors to bear witness.
Ethan sobbed into his fist, the swell of pointlessness and frustration bursting a dam in his throat. The exhaust fan drowned out the sound. Ethan wanted to scream, to manifest some tangible evidence of the shredding hurt.
He managed a few croaky gasps, the sound withering like rot. Even encased in solitude and steam, it felt performative.”
“It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.”
“it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.”
Source: The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)
“It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.”
“It was easier to give up, but was that really how she wanted her life to end? Kaiya Parks - gone at seventeen, experienced little of life, accomplished even less.”
Source: Drifting in a Dream
“It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.”
“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes”
Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear
“It was easier to mourn the cathedral than imagine the dead: women who spent their final seconds hunting for children still playing in the yard, to herd them into Anderson shelters so carefully dug in beneath the cabbage patches; the elderly, who almost made it down the road to the shelter before death swooped down on them; the deaf, reaching for a cup of tea, unaware of the hell unfolding around them; the hopeless, who sat back in their chairs and simply waited. Death would come from the sky one day. Why not tonight?”
Source: The Whisperer's War
“It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.”
“it was easier to talk of hard things in an easy chair -- it was difficult, he had always found, to get angry in an easy chair.”
Source: The Human Factor
“It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”
Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'
“It was easier to trust Siddhartha when he was a stranger. It was easier to trust him when he didn’t talk to me. It was easier with the distance. On this trip, when things will be real, and he’ll be in close proximity, I will not be able to make him the dream angel of my life. On this trip, I’ll have to see the real him, whoever he is, maybe just the opposite of what I imagined, maybe abusive, or a fraud, or a pervert. I don’t know, but now I’m afraid maybe after this trip, when I’ll see the real him, maybe he’ll take away from me the whole idea of Siddhartha I have in my mind.”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“It was easier to visit him in the hospital at the height of his illness than to encounter him on the street struggling through this intermediate existence. I wanted to think of illness and recovery as two clear, diametrically opposed states.”
Source: The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
“It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled. And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.”
“It was easily one of the best sermons she had heard and delivered with a confidence she had not thought her cousin capable of possessing. She turned to Charlotte, saw her friend’s eyes bright with pride and affection and realized, for the first time, that perhaps Charlotte’s marriage to Mr Collins was not merely an agreement of convenience.”
Source: Christmas in Kent: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
“It was easily the happiest day of my football life and yet people still want to ask me about the suit. When they talk about the day, it's not 'didn't you do well?', it's 'what was that you were wearing?!”
“It was easy. All it took were whispers into the ears of man. And in the centuries that followed, your kind ran rivers of blood in the name of a God they never knew.”
Source: Elegy
“It was easy and fun [filming in Hail, Caesar!], and I think it's easy to be intimidated by the Coen brothers, because they're quiet. They don't heap praise, especially upon themselves. It's not like they're walking around thinking they're the greatest thing on Earth.”
“It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.”
Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“It was easy for complacent centuries like the Nineteenth, which knew no overwhelming disasters, to say that the Great Fire was a blessing because it swept out of existence a vast conglomeration of insanitary streets and made way for the cleaner brick-and-stone London of Stuart and later times; but we of to-day, who have seen so much that we loved go up in flames, are probably in a better position to feel sympathy for those of our forebears who suffered the tragedy of the Great Fire.”
Source: In Search of London
“It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.”
“It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.”
“It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."”
“It was easy for me to start good habits like taking advanced classes and doing more sports, but weeding out the bad habits was not as simple. I still went to class high sometimes, but at least I wasn’t doing it every day. Before, I could not function without drugs, could not live a single day. Now, very gradually, I was changing the purpose for which I lived. Before, I was a druggie. Now I was a super studious, highly advanced student who was only on drugs sometimes.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.”
“It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a convenient source of entangled pairs. Anton's claim to fame is that he went and did them.”
“It was easy not to like the other foreigners. I wondered how I'd fallen in with such a band of freaks. There were so many odd, wandering types--a host of bent Australians, warped British, tainted Canadians, tormented runaway Americans. (I considered myself fairly well balanced among this cast, but then look what became of me.) I'd expected it to a certain degree, but I was still surprised. Most of them seemed like misfits. Only a few content. But all of us found teaching work with astounding ease. It didn't matter that, on the whole, we were ragged and suspect because the demand for English in Korea was so great that almost anyone was accepted.”
Source: Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
“It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.”
“It was easy, one village captain told me, to identify a drug addict. It was "the aura" that gave it away. "I can tell from the eyes.”
Source: Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country