I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was never about winning medals or being famous.”
“It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.”
“It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.”
Source: Parables for the theatre: Two plays: The good woman of Setzuan and The caucasian chalk circle
“It was never easy being a refugee, regardless of what people might never be able to see. Displaced from your truth, running away from the shell, counting the fears over the scars and the hell. It was never easy having a bullet at your head, scattering thoughts, dreams, ideas, on the pot of shame, left behind your day by prejudices and faked games.
It was never easy being a refugee… But a torture of the body and the mind, shaping storylines to fit in, concealing the self in the maze of a pipe dream. Just to find the peace, the one that many of us takes for granted.”
“It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.”
“It was never easy to say goodbye to a friend.
Even if that friend had been a monster.”
Source: Storm Breaker
“it was never enough to
bleed myself dry, “you will never change”
Source: Reality
“It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.”
“It was never home until you were there, Tiffy.”
Source: The Flatshare
“it was never in doubt that you had suffered more than I
when young.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.”
“It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.”
“It was never just about painting everything white, I set out to create comfortable spaces - visually comfortable spaces. My mind always feels a little scrambled, so being in simple rooms helps me to think straight.”
“It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
I tried not to feel like the ground was suddenly moving underneath my feet. “You hated the idea of me.”
“But not you.” The words were just as sweet, just as painful. “Never you.”
Source: The Final Gambit
“It was never like you to show too much emotion until you fully trusted a person.”
Source: The Quiet Part Out Loud
“It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.”
“It was never my dream to be famous. I didn't start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater and my desire was to get better at my craft. It's still my desire. I don't consider myself a movie star, nor do I really have the desire to be one. I'm just an entertainer. An actor who works hard at his craft. Whatever labels people give me, that's not really me or part of my process.”
“It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.”
“It was never my goal to be an actor.”
“It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.”
“It was never my intention to cause you pain. Whether you feel strongly or very little, that does not excuse thoughtless behavior." - Adam”
“It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.”
“It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and there. But never really have. And never really there.”
Source: The Invention of Solitude
“It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.”
“It was never said of history, for instance, that it shouldn’t be talked about; on the contrary, in terms of history silence was forgetting, and it was the thing people feared most of all when it was their own history that was at risk of being forgotten. And history, really, was invisible, though its monuments still stood. The making of the monuments was half of it, but the rest was interpretation. Yet there was something worse than forgetting, which was misrepresentation, bias, the selective presentation of events. The truth had to be represented: it couldn’t just be left to represent itself, as for instance she had left it to the police after the incident, and found herself more or less sidelined.”
Source: Outline
“It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.”
Source: On painting and On sculpture: The Latin texts of De pictura and De statua
“It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, ‘You don’t know how weird this is for me.’ I told her, ‘You don’t know how weird it is for me!’”
“It Was Never Stolen Land. It Was Bought and Paid For. Now the Indians Are Trying to Renege.” By James Fulford, December 4, 2020, VDARE
[Fulford is quoting Felix S. Cohen:]
Fortunately for the security of American real estate titles, the business of securing cessions of Indian titles has been, on the whole, conscientiously pursued by the Federal Government, as long as there has been a Federal Government. The notion that America was stolen from the Indians is one of the myths by which we Americans are prone to hide our real virtues and make our idealism look as hard-boiled as possible. We are probably the one great nation in the world that has consistently sought to deal with an aboriginal population on fair and equitable terms. We have not always succeeded in this effort but our deviations have not been typical.
It is, in fact, difficult to understand the decisions on Indian title or to appreciate their scope and their limitations if one views the history of American land settlement as a history of wholesale robbery."
The quotation is from The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers Of Felix S Cohen,1960.”
Source: The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers of Felix S. Cohen
“It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.”
“It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.”
“It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.”
“It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.”
“It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.”
“It was never the poverty that deterred me, never the disease, unsanitary conditions, bugs or garbage, those things were never even a thought in my head as a reason for not staying. I kept looking for the good and always found it each day. I was happy on the reservation.
It would have all worked out if Chief could have been a little nicer to me. The only thing I was missing was love and respect from my partner. Maybe he had changed.”
Source: The Dark Horse Speaks
“It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.”
“It was never the way she looked
always the way she was
I would have fallen in love with her
with my eyes closed.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”
Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“It was never too late to undo who you had become.”
“It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.”
“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.”
Source: Memory (Hardcover)
“It was never wise to challenge fate to a Hold my beer contest.”
Source: Midnight Web
“It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“It was never you. It was the feeling. The feeling of being wanted. The feeling of being looked at and feeling seen. The feeling of being someone needed by someone else. And feelings can’t be kept in a cage - if allowed, they do the caging.”
Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl
“It was never you. Leaving you was the hardest thing I've ever done and I've regretted that decision every second since the moment I walked out. I've made a lot of dumbass mistakes in my life, but letting you go is the one I'd give anything to erase.
- Jason”
Source: Wish Upon a Star
“It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!”
“It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.”
Source: Paper Towns
“It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of outcast. It was rare for me to discuss things so easily to someone outside of my family, but somehow Jill got me.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”
Source: Picture Perfect
“It was nice of her to want to believe the best about me. People tend to do that with the strangers they're fucking. If she wanted to think that apathy and independence were the same thing, good for her. Maybe she was right.”
Source: Apathy and Other Small Victories