I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.”
Source: A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
“It was the USSR, as an emerging basketball power in the 1950s, that first called on Olympic leaders to officially add women's basketball to the program as a medal sport, a half century after the Fort Shaw girls demonstrated the game in St. Louis. Their first attempt came during a June 1955 meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Paris, where the Soviets asked delegates to vote on the adding women's competitions in volleyball, basketball, speed skating, and rowing, all of which were already open to male athletes.”
Source: Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team
“It was the usual noontime university scene, but as I sat watching it with renewed attention, I became aware of a certain fact. In his or her own way, each person I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon of September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness that was new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.”
Source: The Deception of the Emerald Ring
“It was the usual story of penniless young men, who think themselves obliged by their birth to choose a liberal profession and bury themselves in a sort of vain mediocrity, happy even when they escape starvation, notwithstanding their numerous degrees.”
Source: Au bonheur des dames
“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”
Source: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
“It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.”
“It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottomless despair, both during the journey and after. It was not the will to live, nor a conscious resignation; for few are the men capable of such resolution, and we were but a common sample of humanity.”
Source: Survival In Auschwitz
“It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.”
“It was the very thing that had me conclude that when it comes to matters of the heart, you can never be quite sure whether you are being courageous or crazy and therefore, you must be willing to be both at any time.”
Source: The Art of Unbecoming: An Unexpected Journey from Brokenness to Healing
“It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.”
“It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“It was the water that protected me. It's the water that makes us strong.”
Source: The Sirens
“It was the way he communicated it, while still being the man’s man that he was, the alpha, who liked being in charge”
Source: The Protege
“It was the way he wouldn’t acknowledge I had a boyfriend. As if subconsciously he didn’t want me to move on, yet I hadn’t. I was standing in the same place just waiting for the utmost sincere apology. When it came, I had no idea what to do with it so I ran until I couldn’t run anymore; and here I am, a year later, still running. But at least I know it’s in the right direction.”
“It was the way of the world. There were always bigger crooks hiding in the shadows, the biggest ones you never saw at all. They kept to themselves and counted their money and somehow managed to keep most folks busy fighting it out among themselves over crumbs.”
Source: The Talented Ribkins
“It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.”
“It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could.”
Source: After We Fell
“it was the way
you just let me breathe here.
and just be here.
you didn’t ask
anything else of me.
not to tangle in your weaknesses
or to heal your wounds.
you just asked me to know you…
to just know you.
to let it all be unheavy,
here next to you…
and just wonder of our dreams in
the glow of the moon.”
“It was the way you touched me. How you explored every single inch of me before you really put your hands on me," Dillon admitted. "That first time we were in bed you searched out all the erogenous zones with your fingers, probably without even realizing it. It was subtle but very…tactile. It made me feel wanted, I mean more than just physically.”
Source: Afflicted II
“It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the damp slopes of the hill-sides as they steamed in the warmth of the sun, which at this unsettled season shone on the grass with the freshness of an occasional inspector rather than as an accustomed proprietor.”
Source: Under the Greenwood Tree
“It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.”
“It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man".”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew
“It was the wife, John thought. And she was giving this tough guy a tongue-lashing. And the man was taking it. "Okay. I love you. Bye." Tohrment flipped the phone closed and put it in his pocket. When he focused on John again, he clearly respected his wife enough not to roll his eyes and make some macho, shithead comment about pesky women.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
“It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the polls, and I had started keeping an unofficial tally in my head of how much I trusted each new white person I met. It was a pitiful tally, because I had decided most of them would forgive anyone who harmed me, would worry more about vocal antiracism ruining the holiday party season and causing the cheese plates to go to waste than about the lives and sanity of the nonwhite humans in their midst.”
Source: The Office of Historical Corrections
“It was the winter of winters when everything glistened”
Source: The Snow Queen
“It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”
“It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.”
“It was the woman I’d been certain had been planning to bake me in her oven but instead, had rescued us with a tractor.”
Source: Lost in Ireland
“It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.”
“It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I'd never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free to roam, to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We'd pick up a Merc from a showroom when we wanted wheels, and when it ran out of petrol we'd get another one. We'd change cars the way I change socks. We'd sleep in different mansions every night, going to new houses instead of putting new sheets on the beds. Life would be one long party.
Yes, that had been the dream.”
Source: The Dead of Night
“It was the worst hurt he had ever known.”
Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)
“It was the worst moment of my life, to realize she was really gone, never to return.”
Tara does not know what it would be like to have lived with the same person, loved the same person, for so many years, and suddenly have them not be with you ever again.”
Source: Lost and Found
“It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.”
“It was the worst night of my life. George W. Bush was reelected, and then I knew I had to do another couple of albums about this idiot. Then I had to play in front of 37 people. It was horrible. I was crying. I was freaked out.”
“It was the worst nightmare possible for a boy like Steele. He felt responsiblity, even when he was just very little. Something in him needed to help all of us.”
Source: Vengeance Road
“It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.”
“It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose
and turning a thousand miles an hour.”
Source: The Member of the Wedding
“It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.”
“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”
“It was the yearning she related to. Shriver seemed to understand the specific human pain of wanting and pushing away at the same time. It left her with a gorgeous ache, and when she turned the last page of the book and closed the cover, Norah's connection to the writer felt absolute. It was a breathless, consuming rapture....”
Source: Dorothy Parker Drank Here
“It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.”
Source: Gorillas in the Mist
“It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.”
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”
“It was them and not them, maybe the ones they’d never been. I could almost see those others standing in the garden where the pea plants were, feet planted between the rows. They stood without moving, their faces glowing with some shine a long time gone. A time before I lived. Their arms hung at their sides.
They’d always been there, I thought blearily, and they’d always wanted to be more than they were. They should always be thought of as invalids, I saw. Each person, fully grown, was sick or sad, with problems attached to them like broken limbs. Each one had special needs.
If you could remember that, it made you less angry.
They’d been carried along on their hopes, held up by the chance of a windfall. But instead of a windfall there was only time passing. And all they ever were was themselves.
Still they had wanted to be different. I would assume that from now on, I told myself, wandering back into the barn. What people wanted to be, but never could, traveled along beside them. Company.”
Source: A Children's Bible
“It was then, and only then that I realised I had really come home.
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“It was then, as she stared at the dark splotch on her daughter’s body, that Kissy realized she was afraid of her own son.”
Source: All Good People Here