I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“It was heartfelt, it was heartbreaking. It was extreme joy, it was bone-crushing grief. It was fiery hot, it was icy-cold. It was true love sprouting... it was true love dying.
It's like we were both trying to hold onto something that was slipping through our fingers, and we didn't understand why.”
Source: Thoughtless
“It was heaven right in the middle of hell.”
Source: New Moon
“It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.”
“It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.”
“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature – form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning.”
“It was hell to be so tired, and still care.”
Source: Shards of Honour
“It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.”
“It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.”
“It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.”
“It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.”
“It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'”
“It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.”
Source: The Green Knight
“It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“It was her chaos that made her beautiful.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.”
Source: Forever
“It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. ... I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails.”
“it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.”
“It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.”
“It was her problem, and she'd deal with it. Because dealing with personal problems was so fucking high on her list of skills.”
Source: Sacrificial Magic
“It was her smile that took me captive the day we met, and never once let me go. There was an authentic quality to her smile that made people stop and look; a basic human truth that seemed to emanate from deep within her and naturally find its way upward and out. Like the magma flow from Vesuvius, there was simply no stopping Cathy's smile. It could freeze people where they stood and hold them there, sometimes forever.
That's what happened to me anyway.”
Source: The Color of Rain: How Two Families Found Faith, Hope, and Love in the Midst of Tragedy
“It was her tears that made her stronger”
“It was her way of saying, "You should kill yourself.”
“It was her. It was Teresa.”
“It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.”
“It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.”
“It was here at the bottom of heaven, where the sun was whole and the clouds burned away to give hope back to the hopeless, where the snow fell full and comfortable, where the wind was silent, even if only for the moment, it was here, Peter found his bear and Claus found his boy, and the world held its breath—”
Source: Life Between Seconds
“It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.”
Source: The Alchemy of Desire
“It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.”
“It was here that his father first began to break. If Zane thought about the memory hard enough, if he lost himself in that terrible moment, he was sure he could make out the sound of his father's soul cracking.”
Source: Crystal Storm: Battleground
“It was here that I learned just how intertwined joy and sorrow are; how life after loss is full of experiences that hold seemingly opposing feelings in a single moment.
- Emma Hansen”
Source: Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers
“It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).”
“It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made up of /resons/ (Lit.: 'Thing-ies') or reality fragments. Currently research indicates that each reson is itself made up of a combination of at least five 'flavours', known as 'up', 'down', 'sideways', 'sex appeal' and 'peppermint'.”
Source: Lords and Ladies
“It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.”
Source: Cornhuskers
“It was hers... her Kitsune... her magic. The magic of all the Kumaris past, present and future.”
Source: Cursed By The Crown
“It was Herzog, the man himself. He was so welcoming and kind and not at all the persona you'd seen in a magazine, or in "Burden of Dreams" for that matter. I'd shot the behind-the-scenes for "Bad Lieutenant." It was a very normal production. Nothing like "Burden of Dreams."”
“It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'”
“It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.”
Source: Who Do You Love
“It was high time for everyone to see a new side of Maggie Martin. Waves of Grace”
Source: Waves of Grace
“It was highly fatalistic, but its fatalism was not one of complacency. It saw life as being ultimately doomed to tragedy, but with the opportunity for grand and noble heroism along the way. The Vikings sought to seize that opportunity, to accomplish as much as they could - and be remembered for it - despite the certainty of the grave and "the wolf." How one met one's fate, whatever that fate happened to be, was what separated honorable and worthy people from the dishonorable and the unworthy. Norse religion and mythology were thoroughly infused with this view. The gods, the "pillars" who held the cosmos together, fought for themselves and their world tirelessly and unflinchingly, even though they knew that in the end the struggle was hopeless, and that the forces Of chaos and entropy would prevail. They went out not with a whimper, but with a bang. This attitude is what made the Vikings the Vikings.”
Source: The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
“It was hilarious [last scene with Edward Cullen] considering we'd spent the entire series filming in the most miserable conditions, and then we end on the beach in the Caribbean filming for two days in the sea. That was fun. We literally did the last shot as the sun was coming up in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. It was a nice way to end it, because they were considering shooting it in the sea in Vancouver, which would not have worked at all.”
“It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harm's way in Benghazi and after four Americans fell, said: ''What difference, at this point, does it make?''”
“It was Hillary Clinton who worked with Russia on the New START Treaty to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile. It was Hillary Clinton that worked with Russia to get them engaged in a community of nations to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons without firing a shot. She's not going around praising Vladimir Putin as a great guy. But she knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals. This is a very challenging part of the world, and we ought to have a commander-in-chief who is prepared and done it, rather than somebody who goes around praising Vladimir Putin as a great leader.”
“It was him against the flames and he revelled in it.
Logan was good at his job. Exceptionally good. He had the Knight gift for it.
There was no fear of the fire that would turn most mortals to jelly because flames licked in his blood.
To him it was a battle - good against evil.
And he was the good guy.”
Source: Hot Mess
“It was him—Aiden St. Delphi.
I’d never forget his name or face. The first time I’d caught a glimpse of him standing in front of the training arena, a ridiculous crush had sprung alive. I’d been fourteen and he seventeen. The fact he was a pure-blood hadn’t mattered whenever I’d spotted him around campus.”
Source: Half-Blood
“It was him, it was always him, they only needed to stand there with their feet buried into the muddy moss and look at each other; to feel each other. Time stopped, movement disappeared and it was both the beginning of everything and the end of everything else. They had each other and there was no name, no title to it other than they just had each other. There was no necessity to be practical, what they had and what they were, was of their own and in their own and I think nothing in the world could have made Lucy happier than to have what they had, to be what they were.”
Source: Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
“It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.”
“It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.”
Source: Telegraph Avenue