I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a dream could be sold to another person or an upcoming generation, though the dreamer may die, yet the dream remains alive and can be fulfilled by those to whom it was committed.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it.”
“If a drop of hope exists somewhere,
it threatens all threats everywhere.”
Source: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy's Demise
“If a drop of water fell on your lip when you were about to die of thirst, it would be as if an ocean had fallen on your face! Now, to those who ask how big a single drop can be, you can say it can be as much as the ocean!”
“If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough.”
“If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.”
“If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.”
“If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.”
“If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.”
“If a failure can be a bad break, it can also be an opportunity to learn and grow. When we embrace it as a challenging prospect and an occasion to identify what went wrong, we can avoid cloudy days and learn to breathe serenely. ("The postman always rings twice")”
“If a failure to preserve and consider potentially controversial evidence has frustrated a full understanding of the Hypogeum, then the same is also true for the megalithic temples and even the prehistoric cave sites in Malta. Thus, Mifsud points out that archaeologists excavating Ghar Dalam cave in the early twentieth century [...] 'discovered several knives, scrapers, borers and burins in previously undisturbed deposits, and although stratigraphically Pleistocene, they have been arbitrarily attributed to the Neolithic'.”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“If a fairly substantial percentage of the money you and I work hard for is to be given to people too lazy to drag their arses out of bed at six o’clock in the morning and put in a shift, then we need assurance that they’re not spending our money on booze and drugs.”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“If a fairly substantial percentage of the money you and I work hard for is to be given to people too lazy to drag their arses out of bed at six o’clock in the morning, then we need assurance that they’re not spending our money on booze and drugs.”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“If a fairy makes a wish to leave the fairy cave, she must return to the cave every year and always on her birthday to live as a tiny fairy on that day. If she fails to obey the Fairy Queen’s Rules, she’ll turn to fairy dust, forever.”
Source: The Adventures of Eric Seagull 'Story-Teller': Book 2 A Fairy's Wish
“If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.”
“If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.”
“If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.”
“If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
“If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.”
“If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.”
“If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.”
“If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.”
“If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided.”
“If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient.”
“If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman
“If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.”
Source: The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ...
“If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.”
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.”
“If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.”
“If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.”
“If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.”
“If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha
“If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new dawn. If a few nations begin actually making operational a verification system we can all depend upon and push to bring all into such a system, we will all benefit.”
“If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.”
“If a few weeks earlier she’d been shocked to hear of the murder in their small town, now she felt as if there weren’t enough murders. There weren’t enough victims cut down for their lies, their treachery, and their utter stupidity.”
Source: Moments to Spare
“If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.”
“If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. 'If you ain't scared of standing up for what's right, you ain't standing up for much.”
Source: True Letters from a Fictional Life
“If a fighter suffers defeat, especially in a fight he feels he won, it will never leave his mind. He is always going to want to avenge that loss.”
“If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.”
Source: Nathan Oliveira: paintings and works on paper, 1959-1991
“If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.”
“If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!”
“If a film is good, it will work no matter what.”
“If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.”
“If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.”
“If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Part of the freedom in directing, for me, is that I'm also the camera operator. That's the place where things are less rigid, where I can adjust as I go along.”
“If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.”
“If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.”
“If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.”