I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.”
“It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.”
Source: Lost in a Good Book
“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
“It wasn’t like I made his world better. It was like I was his world. It wasn’t some explosion; it wasn’t fireworks. It was a fire, burning slowly from the inside out.”
“It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.”
“It wasn’t me! Look at how little I am. I’m a little guy.”
“It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.”
Source: Lock and Key
“It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.”
Source: Touch & Go
“It wasn’t until Thor that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.”
“It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers and whatever else the angels— and yes, all those annoying little cupids—wished to use for embellishment.”
Source: The lost duke of Wyndham
“It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“It weighed down on me like a rucksack filled with dog turds.”
“It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.”
“It well becomes a young man to be modest.”
Source: Comedies of Plautus
“It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.”
“It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.”
“It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something yet to tell is no longer why and when it left i can't tell.”
“It went like this:
Boxes.
So many boxes.
Everything packed up.
“We’re leaving,” my father said.
“Why?” I asked.
“Because we have to.”
“Why?” I asked.
“Because it’s what we must do.”
“Why?” I asked.
“I don’t have a choice.”
“Why?” I asked.
That was the day I learned even my father could cry.”
Source: Brothersong
“It went on, this lifetime in a box, one letter after another.”
Source: The Longest Ride
“It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.”
“It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.”
Source: The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe
“It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet ...
“It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.”
Source: Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c
“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
“It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.”
“It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.”
“It were better, never to look beyond the present material world. By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within itself, we really assert it to be God; and the sooner we arrive at that divinity, the better.”
Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author
“It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.”
Source: The Best of Simple
“It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.”
“It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made such havoc among the moderns. But as men have always been bent on seeking each other's destruction by continual wars; and as force, when brought against us, can only be repelled by force; the chief support of war, must, after money, be now sought in chemistry.”
“It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it were equally a necessity of things that the reasonings connected with operations should hold the same just place as a clear and well-defined branch of the subject of analysis, a fundamental but yet independent ingredient in the science, which they must do in studying the engine.”
“It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.”
“It were not best that we should all think alike.”
“It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.”
Source: Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...
“It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.”
“It were worthwhile to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.”
“It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.”
“It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.”
“It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .”
“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”
“It will all come out right in the end: the stars go home and so do we.”
Source: The Lighted Window: Evening Walks Remembered
“It will all end very badly, Gus”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .”
Source: Pilgrimage
“It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.”
“It will all work out in the end. You must keep faith in yourself, and leave the rest to God.”
“It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.”