I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?”
“If a candle appears while you are expecting a torch, do not be upset, because then you will break the candle's heart!”
“If a car came through a window anywhere near me, I'd be freaking out for three days!”
“If a car can represent something, this one represents contradiction. For most of his life, my dad has been able to have any woman he wants. In response, he’s gone through as many as possible, betraying each for someone younger and more absurd. Conversely, for most of his life he’s been able to have any car he wants, too. In response, he’s remained married to this, a 1982 Porsche with a tricky clutch.”
Source: Domestic Violets
“If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.”
“If a caravan lacks a wise leader, reaching the intended destination becomes unpredictable.”
“If a Cardiologist asked you how many nicotine plasters were needed to mend a heart failure, how many candles would you light for your today-old fetus?
Poem - Help Me Solve This Puzzle In Between The Middle Of My Midbrain.
December 14, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, 'Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.'”
“If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.”
“If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.”
“If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”
“If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.”
“If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.”
“If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'”
“If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.”
“If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.”
“If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity.”
“If a certain event repeats itself over and over again, it means somewhere someone has destined it.”
Source: VoiceMates
“If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other. The happiest families I ever met were all frayed... but they were also tighter than a hangman's noose.”
Source: Saga #40
“If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.”
“If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.”
“If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.”
“If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues.”
“If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)
“If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.”
“If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.”
“If a character dies, you should feel that. If a character accomplishes something, you should feel that. That's where you try to find that balance. It's impossible to articulate, as you go through it. You just have to recognize it.”
“If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.”
“If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with acceptance, and they'll forge a nourishing and meaningful bond as the book continues.”
“If a chef says to you that he sits down and eats dinner before service, then it's bulls***. And if they do, then I'd tell them that they are a fat f***! You shouldn't indulge, because you need to keep your palate on edge, and keeping it on edge is all about small attention to detail and tweaking along the way.”
“If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!”
“If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.”
“If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.”
“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”
“If a child doesn't have a secure and stable relationship after a parent leaves, she keeps her feelings inside because it's not safe to put them out there. Later on the child thinks, 'I'm not going to trust you.' Her future attachments get compromised, because she never worked through the attachments she did have. All she had to do was protect herself, and part of that protection was not to attach to anyone.”
Source: Treatment of Complicated Mourning
“If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.”
“If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.”
“If a child garbage collector dies, how many good articles will be written about him? If a worthless king or a worthless head of state dies, papers will not be enough to write good things about them!”
“If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.”
“If a child grows up in an environment infested with predators, he or she would have a hard time building healthy relationships in society, the whole life.”
“If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.”
“If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.”
Source: Education as an Art
“If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society.”
“If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.”
“If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly.”
“If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.”
“If a child is going to grow into a truly special adult–someone who thinks, considers other points of view, has an open mind, and possesses the ability to discuss great ideas with other people–a love of reading is an essential foundation.”
Source: Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
“If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.”