I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.”
“It’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.”
“It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!”
Source: The Basic Bible Pocket Guide: *Book by Book Summaries *Key Verses *Life Applications *Life Applications
“It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.”
“It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.”
“It’s not important to be consistent, it’s important to be right.”
“It’s not important to develop your own style but your own approach.”
“It’s not important,” Silena insisted. “We have to find Charlie!” Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.”
Source: Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files: The Demigod Files
“It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.”
“It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.”
Source: Firefall
“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”
“It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.”
“It’s not just Israel who refuses to speak to Hamas. It’s the whole international community… Most of the democratic world refuses to have a relationship with Hamas because Hamas has refused to meet the most minimal benchmarks of international behavior.”
“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.”
“It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.”
“It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your body is filled with resentment, worry, fear, lust, guilt, anger, bitterness, or any other emotional disease, it’s going to shorten your life.”
“It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her… You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother.”
“It’s not like your soul gets older. It gets wiser.”
“It’s not lying, it’s flirting.”
Source: The Game
“It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.”
Source: Styxx
“It’s not my job to want you or not want you. It’s not my job to earn you.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“It’s not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It’s not the end-all, be-all of my life.”
“It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.”
Source: The Edge of Never
“It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.”
“It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.”
“It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle:
“It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.”
“It’s not really pressure, unless you’re not prepared.”
“It’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.”
“It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.”
Source: City: Rediscovering the Center
“It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.”
“It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.”
“It’s not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?”
“It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.”
“It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).”
“It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.”
“It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.”
“It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.”
“It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.”
“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
“It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality.”
“It’s not that the universe wants you to be abundant; it is offering you the opportunity to take part in its abundance.”
Source: How to Wish
“It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away.”
“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.”
Source: The Lover
“It’s not the advertising - it’s the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don’t like it.”
“It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?”
Source: The Journey Home
“It’s not the destination but the adventure along the way.”
“It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.”
“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”
“It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character.”