I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It would be squash fritters, squash pudding, pierogies stuffed with squash until autumn. Every year they ate squash until they were sick of it.”
Source: Goblin Market
“It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!”
“It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine
simply because it resembled the counterfeit.”
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.”
“It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery”
Source: A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...
“It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn’t too great.”
“It would be superfluous to
drive us mad, my dear Watson”
“It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason”
Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition
“It would be sweet to be cared for despite her faults, and to be wanted for her person rather than the power she comes with.”
Source: Three Dark Crowns
“It would be tedious to relate the Gradgrindian detail - economic, social and cultural (in the anthropological sense) - with which Scottish Screen implemented its industrial model during the thirteen years of its existence between 1997 and 2010. Collectively, the Scottish Screen website's policy guidelines and application forms for its innumerable schemes at every level of production and training constituted a manual for how to crush the life out of a creative project.”
Source: Scottish Cinema Now
“It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.”
Source: Sula
“It would be terrible for them to have a father they couldn't look up to. One who had done something he believed to be wrong.”
Source: The Peppermint Pig
“It would be terribly boring to be earnest.”
“It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities of a fourteen-year-old kid. Some fourteen-year-olds would revel in the book, and some would be very sensitive to it, so you can't afford to worry about that. What I worry about is good taste and getting my message across by whatever means I can.”
“It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.”
“It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."”
Source: Uniformity with God's Will
“It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.”
“It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn’t tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receive Christ as your Savior, you are going to be lost.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)”
“It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.”
Source: The Wilson reader
“It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.”
“It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.”
“It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...: Posthumous and other writings
“It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.”
“It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.”
“It would be too easy to become infatuated with a man like him, and also decidedly unwise considering the female debris left in his wake.”
Source: No Turning Back
“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
Source: Every Day
“It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.”
Source: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner
“It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.”
“It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.”
“It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.”
“It would be unjust to blame the past for choices made in the present. Nor can we justify present choices by invoking the sins of the past.”
Source: The Wicked Ones
“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.”
Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.”
“It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.”
“It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.”
Source: The Burning Bridge (Ranger's Apprentice Book 2)
“It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.”
“It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.”
“It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.”
“It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
“It would be vain for me to endeavour after a more reasonable manner of writing to you: I have nothing to speak of but myself - and what can I say but what I feel? If you should have any reason to regret this state of excitement in me, I will turn the tide of your feelings in the right channel by mentioning that it is the only state for the best sort of Poetry -”
Source: Letters of John Keats
“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”
“It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head and humble prayer, yet it silently adores.”
Source: Daily Help Devotional
“It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.”
“It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.”
“It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is simply two teams trying to knock seven bells out of each other, in the nicest possible way.”
“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”