I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”
Source: Elsewhere
“It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.”
“It’s difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognize you from your work, or whether it’s just because you’re six foot three and have the eyebrows of Satan.”
“It’s disgusting that some focus on looks. I brought a beautiful child into this world.”
“It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?”
“It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.”
Source: The Millionaire Next Door
“It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.”
Source: Dust & Decay
“It’s easier to be God than to see God.”
“It’s easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.”
Source: Whatever Happened to the Power of God? & It's Time to Rock the Boat
“It’s easier to follow fashion than it is to have personal style.”
“It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light.”
“It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?”
“It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself. I mean, it’s not such a big deal. You’re not so prejudiced any more.”
“It’s easier to look sexy when you’re thinking of one man in particular.”
“It’s easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban.”
“It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.”
“It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.”
“It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.”
“It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.”
Source: Grimspace
“It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.”
“it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.”
“It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you’re left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.”
Source: God-Shaped Hole: A Novel
“It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of China. But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.”
“It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.”
Source: Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir
“It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.”
Source: Things Change
“It’s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.”
“It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.”
“It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.”
“It’s entirely up to you, Artie. He lives or dies by your word. (Acheron) No, akri! Don’t ask her that. She never let me have no fun. She a mean goddess! (Simi)”
“It’s equally as important to me to be a good friend, and a good sister, and a good daughter. I’m very close with my family and friends.”
“It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)”
“It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do f___ing Glee. And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his f___ing show… f___ that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.”
“It’s every man’s business to see justice done.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”
Source: Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“It’s fairly standard. Also, I’m fourteen. Also, your beard’s stupid.” “Isn’t this fun?” Skulduggery said brightly. “The three of us getting along so well.”
Source: The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 3)
“It’s fascinating how the fundamentals of business-to-business marketing are the same today as they were 50 years ago. It’s still about relationships although today we have new tools and techniques at our disposal.”
“It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.”
“It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.”
“It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.”
“It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.”
Source: The Books of Ember Omnibus
“It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.”
“It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.”
“It’s fun to be in a place where ridiculous is normal.”
“It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.”
“It’s funny how all the fussing and fighting turns into us f-king and flying.”
“It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you as a person don’t or maybe we adjust, but don’t actually change.”
“It’s funny how one summer can change everything.”
Source: That Summer
“It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.”
“It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.”