I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s hard to say. I don’t want to limit myself by saying one thing or another. I couldn’t have imagined the path that these past five years have taken me, so I guess I’ll just give a safe answer and say that I hope to be elected as the president of the United States in 2016.”
“It’s hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame.”
“It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.”
“It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...”
“It’s hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.”
“It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“It’s harder to come back than it is to arrive.”
“It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.”
“It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.”
“It’s history. It’s poetry.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”
Source: Breath
“It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.”
Source: Ship Breaker: Number 1 in series
“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
Source: The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects
“It’s hurting my soul”
Source: The Between the Covers New Adult 6-Book Boxed Set: Wait for You, Losing It, Taking Chances, A Little Too Far, Rule, and Foreplay
“It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.”
“It’s important for people to know that I’m still focused on football... I’m handling my business to get ready for the next season.”
“It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.”
“It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.”
“It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.”
Source: Mirror Dance
“It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.”
“It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.”
“It’s important to be yourself.”
“It’s important to have relationships with the people at the archives.”
“It’s important to let go, calm down, and get grounded. We need to listen to ourselves. When one becomes aware that our present-moment thoughts are not productive, one should simply let them go. Change a negative thought to a positive one.”
“it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President”
“It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.”
“It’s important to remember that Mark David Chapman really set a lot of trends: such as the trend of celebrities having bodyguards.”
“It’s important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.”
“It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“It’s impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted you’d feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately there’s an easier way and it’s our feelings. Our feelings let us know what we’re thinking.”
“It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle’s world.”
“It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.”
“It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.”
“It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.”
“It’s in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.”
“It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.”
“It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.”
“It’s in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp”
Source: When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles
“It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.”
“It’s in those private times that we are refreshed, strengthened, and rejuvenated. It’s then we can see our lives from God’s perspective and discover what is really important. That’s where we understand who it is we belong to and believe in.”
Source: The Power of a Praying® Woman
“It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.”
“It’s interesting how God arranges your schedule. When you’re helping someone else, you never run out of time, when you’re just interested in helping yourself, time is real short.”
“It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.”
Source: Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human
“It’s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.”
Source: So Much Closer
“It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.”
Source: Something Like Fate
“It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.”
“It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.”
“It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or thinking narrowly, in ways noone else can. You can either lose your mind and your authenticity in the process of reacting to all that stuff, or you can use it as the perfect opportunity to grow and nourish your children by attending to what is deepest and best in them and in yourself.”
“It’s interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.”