I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.”
“It’s one thing to protect yourself,” Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. “That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?” I shrugged. “A seven-figure civil suit?”
Source: Abandon
“It’s one thing to run across Canada, but now, people are really going to know what cancer is.”
“It’s one thing to see yourself going across the ticker…But to take someone else down, that’s another. I really can’t even explain that pain.”
“It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!”
“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future”
“It’s only human to have low moments in life because if you don’t, then you won’t feel the high, exciting times.”
“It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.”
“It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.”
Source: Comet in Moominland: Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley?
“It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?”
“It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.”
Source: Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volumes One, Two and Three
“It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.”
Source: Lawrence Durrell: Conversations
“It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.”
“It’s our imperfections that make us vulnerable, make us interesting. How can I make myself a bit of an asshole and still have humanity about it?”
“It’s over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent, and I believe that Iraq should pay the families that lost a loved one several million dollars per life, I think at minimum.”
“It’s over me like a ton of water, the things I don’t know.”
Source: Women in their beds: new and selected stories
“It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting.”
“It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.”
“It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?”
“It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.”
“It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.”
“It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death
protects.”
“It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.”
“It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.”
“It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.”
“It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.”
Source: A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)
“It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“It’s really critical to have your dream life in your mind so that you’re constantly adjusting and designing your business in such a way to accomplish it, because you could very easily be highly successful and not accomplish the lifestyle you really want to accomplish in your heart.”
“It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.”
“It’s really important to understand that God is not an impersonal force. Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks.”
“It’s really over, isn’t it?” He laughed and pulled me into his lap. “That’s the beauty of it all. Nothing’s over. It’s just a new start.”
“It’s really simple actually. It’s just, try and make people happy. Maybe you have to learn with time. Maybe you have to learn it the hard way. But as long as you learn it, you’re going to make the world a better place.”
“It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.”
“It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused”
“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”
Source: How the World Works
“It’s right to say that people fall in love. We don’t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we’ll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.”
Source: Ghost Boy
“It’s sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn’t Thelma and Louise prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.”
“It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.”
“It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.”
“It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.”
“It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.”
“It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.”
Source: The Greater Trumps
“It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”
Source: Genevieve
“It’s seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…” he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze lifted to meet mine, and his voice changed. “…at least until I found you.”
“It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t mean you disregard everything and everyone. But you want to come with your cup full. You know: ‘My cup runneth over.’ What comes out of the cup is for y’all. What’s in the cup is mine. But I’ve got to keep my cup full.”
“It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.”
“It’s simple, really: Be great right now so that you can be great later on.”
“It’s simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?”
“It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.”