I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.”
Source: WarCraft War of the Ancients Archive
“It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.”
Source: The City and the Stars
“It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.”
Source: In the Company of Ogres
“It was one thing to intervene while a man was being beaten, but it was another thing entirely to intervene in Catseye business.”
Source: The Never Tilting World
“It was one thing to intervene while a man was being beaten, but it was another thing entirely to intervene in Catseye business. Especially with a Catseye who’d just been stood up by her date.”
Source: The Never Tilting World
“It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.”
Source: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.”
“It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.”
“It was one thing to stay in one place If you were happy and fulfilled- that was simply living the good life. But what if you weren't fulfilled?”
Source: The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen
“It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”
Source: The Hunt for Red October
“It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.”
Source: The Best Of Me
“It was one-thirty a.m. when all hell broke loose.”
Source: Of Fury & Fangs
“It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.”
“It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath.”
“It was only a few weeks ago when they were here with Kelly, standing at this very spot, laughing their heads off at nothing, unaware of how sweet life was and how sour it was about to become.”
Source: Dead Ends
“It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.”
“It was only a half-truth. This was not happiness she felt. But emotions did have a way of spilling out when they could not be contained in your heart. You could love someone even when you were apart. You could grieve before you lost him.”
Source: By Any Other Name
“it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.”
“It was only a joke, Mia,” says Bree gently. “Of course I do not wish that. No one really wishes to be queen.”
Source: Three Dark Crowns
“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
“It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.”
“It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.”
“It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks.”
“It was only after I had called the police on the illegal activities of corporations a few times and had seen them not enforce the law that I realized the police are not going to enforce the law when it involves a corporation!”
“It was only after I untied my girlfriend from being face down on the bed that I learned her screaming, 'Asshole!' was a statement about my character and not an invitation or request.”
“It was only after losing you that I realized the importance of valuing what I have. And I learned to never be the reason for someone else's tears.”
Source: Sukoon
“It was only after my head started reeling and my body started weaving and I tumbled into bed that I'd hear that soothing voice singing...The reverbations of that voice wandered sweetly, softly, working like a massage on the area of my heart that was the most tightly clenched, helping those knots to loosen. It was like the rush of waves, and like the laughter of people I'd met in all kinds of places, people I'd become friendly with and then separated from, and like the kind words all those people had said to me, and like the mewing of a cat I had lost, and like the mixture of noises that rang in the background in a place that was dear to me, a place far away, a place that no longer existed, and like the rushing of trees that whisked past my ears as I breathed in a scent of fresh greenery on a trip someplace... the voice was like a combination of all this.”
Source: Asleep
“It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.”
Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.”
“It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.”
“It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.”
“It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.”
Source: The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets - As Illustrated in the Lives of Holy Men of Old
“It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.”
“It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.”
“It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.”
“It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.”
“It was only in 1926, long after Leopold II, that the whip was introduced in local courts with Congolese chieftains and dignitaries as judges. In 1959 the use had completely disappeared, but Laurent Kabila reintroduced it in 1997 and now the whip is a common torture of the police.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.”
“It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.”
“It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.”
Source: The Space Race
“It was only in the theatre that I lived”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.”
“It was only Lara and Kai. Kai and Lara. It was them, watching as the other kissed someone else, watching as they tugged on the person’s hair, reached for the person’s waist, all while never betraying their gaze. They gripped to the violet string that held their eyes together like a lifeline; like it was what kept their hearts beating but also what split them in two.”
“It was only later I began to think of bringing you to lie. It's forbidden, of course. To breathe life into machines. We've lost the knowledge anyway. Erased along with post-Newtonian physics. But the ancient methods...those cannot be rooted out. Alchemy. Sorcery. Clockwork magic. I thought there might be a way.”
Source: A Heart for Copper