I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.”
Source: Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review
“It’s up to you to fill it. Find things that mean something to you, that represent times where you’ve overcome an obstacle, learned something important. Put those items in the bag and they’ll help you find your strength.’ ‘I’m not sure if that’s going to help much.’ Unless I put a brick in it and nail Brandy between the eyes.”
Source: Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven
“It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible.
It’s a question of will and discipline.”
“It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.”
“It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.”
“It’s very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage. Or as I like to call it: 'marriage.' You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I parked my car; I didn’t gay park it.”
“It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.”
“It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles”
“It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.”
“It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.”
“It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.”
“It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.”
“It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.”
“It’s very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs — dinosaurs are nature’s Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It’s not just being weirdly shaped and being able to eat Buicks. It’s that they are real.”
“It’s very strange how electronic music formatted
itself and forgot that its roots are about the
surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race,
gender, and style of music into this big party.”
“It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”
“It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.”
“It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, this radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage.”
“It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.”
Source: Fight Club: A Novel
“It’s well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.”
“It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.”
Source: Hopeless
“It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.”
Source: The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel
“It’s what non-car people don’t get. They see all cars as just a ton and a half, two tons of wires, glass, metal, and rubber, and that’s all they see. People like you or I know we have an unshakable belief that cars are living entities… You can develop a relationship with a car and that’s what non-car people don’t get… When something has foibles and won’t handle properly, that gives it a particularly human quality because it makes mistakes, and that’s how you can build a relationship with a car that other people won’t get.”
“It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.”
“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”
Source: Aleph
“It’s what you do that counts, not what you consider doing.”
Source: Wanderlust
“It’s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.”
“It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.”
Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
“It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.”
Source: The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel
“It’s when we say that we don’t love something that people get surprised. “I thought you guys liked everything!” The stuff I don’t like is the lounge-y muzak in restaurants, elevators and hotels. It really gets me angry, because it’s supposed to be in the background. It’s not supposed to be something that people listen to.”
“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”
Source: Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990
“It’s wherever you are. If it’s tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you’re doing.” Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn’t considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? “Even in the bathroom?” the Gasman’s eyes widened with surprise.”
Source: Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1
“It’s wonderful, it’s expressive. It’s a way of using a part of my instrument that I’m comfortable and familiar with. The voice is such a vital part of crafting a character. I’m so pleased that I have the kind of voice that prints well and that people want to hear. I’ve had friends actually say, ‘You know, I was in the kitchen, and the television was on and I heard you.’ I love hearing that there’s something familiar about my sound, and that to some people it’s soothing.”
“It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero”
“It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China! It was wrong in two thousand B.C., and it’s wrong in nineteen fifty-four A.D.! It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong!”
“It’s your fault. I was defending you!” I blurted. He paused. “In protecting my honor, you exposed months of work. I should be flattered?”
Source: Poison Study
“It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .”
“It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.”
“It’s, it’s like I’m in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that’s what the fourth dimension is all about, is no words, no symbols, no images, all pure, real energy and vibrations. And, and if I thought about how cruel of a world this is, I would probably just commit suicide after a while, if that was what I spent my energy thinking about. I would definitely not have any strength left to create music.”
“It’s, like, a safety bomb.” -Iggy”
“It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.”
“Iubirea-aceeași moarte ne-a sortit :
străfund de iad pe ucigaș l-așteaptă.”
Source: Inferno
“Iubirea adevărată e o experienţă a bucuriei împărtăşite şi ea iradiază, ca atare, în întregul spaţiu din jurul său. Evident, nu cred în utopia unei exaltări de fiecare clipă, sau în convieţuirea paradiziacă, în care totul e roz, adorabil, ireproşabil. Vreau doar să spun că dacă o întîlnire de dragoste devine prea complicată, dacă emoţia, farmecul şi plăcerea se umplu, dintr-un motiv sau altul, de cearcăne, ceva în măruntaiele acestei întîlniri e pe cale de a se deteriora. De asemenea, dacă frumuseţea întîlnirii se cuplează cu nefericirea masivă a altora. O mare iubire care sfîrşeşte prin a ruina cariere, caractere, vieţi e o iubire mai curînd strîmbă şi are puţine şanse de happy end. Sintagme de tipul „sînt îndrăgostit fără speranţă“, „sînt îndrăgostit şi mă simt vinovat“, „sînt îndrăgostit şi nu mai sînt bun de nimic“ n-au ce căuta în vocabularul iubirii. Iubirea adevărată e creatoare, mobilizatoare, restauratoare. E tonică, simplă, vitală. Amărăciunile, neîncrederea, infernul geloziei, suspiciunile mărunte, spaima de viitor şi tot alaiul de indispoziţii cotidiene care confiscă uneori viaţa cuplului sînt preliminarii şi semne ale ratării. Iubirea fericită este, dimpotrivă, un corelativ a reuşitei umane, o binecuvîntare care îmbogăţeşte şi înfrumuseţează inventarul destinului pămîntesc. Fericirea se multiplică, atunci cînd e atentă la fericirea partenerului, iar fericirea cuplului aşază asupra întregii comunităţi un cer mai curat şi mai hrănitor.
Ştiu foarte bine că descrierea de mai sus nu se potriveşte tuturor iubirilor, că iubirile fericite nu se întîlnesc pe toate drumurile (deşi sînt sigur că ele sînt mai numeroase decît ne închipuim). Dar iubirile nefericite ar trebui şterse din registrul iubirii: admit că ele sînt curente, aproape inevitabile şi că îşi au nimbul lor de tragism şi de respectabilitate. Nu sînt însă iubiri adevărate: sînt doar teribile probe existenţiale, provocări tainice ale sorţii, materie primă pentru o eventuală soluţie de înţelepciune.
Iubirea adevărată e fericire pe termen lung, sau nu e deloc.”
Source: Despre frumusețea uitată a vieții
“Iubirea e antrenamentul inimii dar și al minții.A unei minți în echilibru și armonie cu însăși inima pe care o ceartă atât de des.”
Source: Iubind-o pe ea
“Iubirea e banală. Îți provoacă o intoxicație chimică foarte asemănătoare cu aceea dată de o reușită mult așteptată sau de mersul cu mare viteză. În acele momente, nu mai ținem cont de nimic și ne concentrăm doar asupra propriei noastre delectări; viața de zi cu zi ne este distorsionată și devenim iraționali: ne simțim fericiți și ni se pare că totul este posibil.”
Source: Sprängaren
“Iubirea e ca un val,ce te face să nu mai fii stăpân pe tine, ci să fii pe deplin subjugat altui stăpân.”
Source: Valuri de viață
“Iubirea e continuă iertare.”
Source: Şi tu esti singur?
“Iubirea e glasul păcii.”
Source: Valuri de viață
“Iubirea e un act de credinta fata de altcineva, iar chipul ei trebuie sa fie intodeauna acoperit de mister. Fiecare moment trebuie trait cu pasiune si emotie, fiindca, daca incercam sa-l descifram si sa-l intelegem , magia dispare. Urmam caile sinuoase si luminoase ale dragostei , ne lasam purtati in cel mai inalt loc de pe pamant sau in cea mai adanca dintre mari, dar acem incredere in mana care ne conduce. Cata vreme nu ne speriem , ne vom trezi mereu intr-un palat; daca ne temem de pasii pe care ni-i cere dragostea si vrem sa ne dezvaluie totul, nu vom mai ramane cu nimic.”
Source: The Spy
“Iubirea este explozia stării de bine provenite din interiorul meu. E momentul în care sunt așa de fericită încât soarele îmi pare mai strălucitor și parcă și griul cerului îmi pare mai luminos. Momentul în care mă trezesc zâmbind fără motiv. Când nebuniile mă cuprind și dansez cu veselia. Când nu îmi permit să mă supăr pentru a nu îmi strica starea de bine. Când dependența de persoana iubită e bolnăvicioasă. Când mergi aiurea pe stradă și lumea te privește ciudat dar tu ești prea extaziată ca să poți observa. Când abia ce te-ai despărțit de persoana iubită dar deja îți e dor de ea. Atunci când îl suni noaptea târziu doar pentru a-i auzi vocea. Momentul acela minunat că te pierzi la o singură privire de a lui și chiar și după un an reușește să te surprindă. Când te face să te îndrăgostești din nou și din nou de el, la fiecare întrevedere.”
Source: Destinule, să te vedem ce poți!