I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a filmmaker has no originality, what's the difference between a filmmaker and a photocopier!”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”
“If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!”
“If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.”
“If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.”
Source: On Cats
“If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.”
“If a fleet of jet-black CHOPPERS ain't cresting over a back-lit hill by the end of Act II, you've got to start asking yourself whether this is a movie or a fucking art installation.”
Source: The Grip of Film
“If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.”
“If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.”
Source: In My Own Way: An Autobiography
“If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything.”
“If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.”
“If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.”
“If a foolishness has brought a country into a terrible dead end, it is not a virtue or an honour to turn back from that stupidity because there is no alternative to going forward!”
“If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.”
“If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?”
“If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.”
“If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.”
Source: Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life
“If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity in the soul of each citizen. National greatness will not be recovered via a mindless expansion of bureaucratized schooling. Seventy years ago, Dorothy Sayers wrote, 'Sure, we demand another grant of money, we postpone the school leaving age and plan to build bigger and better schools. We demand that teachers further slave conscientiously in and out of school hours. But to what end? I believe,' Sayers lamented, 'all this devoted effort is largely frustrated because we have no definable goal for each child to become a fully formed adult. We have lost the tools of learning, sacrificing them to the piecemeal, subject matter approach of bureaucratized schooling that finally compromises to produce passive rather than active emerging adults. But our kids are not commodities, they are plants. They require a protected environment, and care, and feeding, but most basically, an internal yearning to grow toward the sunlight. What we need is the equipping of each child with those lost tools.”
Source: The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
“If a free society cannot help the many that are poor, it cannot save the few that are rich.”
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
“If a friend is telling you positive things about their job or relationships, it doesn't mean that they are happy in them. They may be just consoling themselves by counting the positives.”
“If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord's Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm.”
Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“If a friend lied to me the way I lie to myself, I’d say you’re a shitty friend.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.”
Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
“If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.”
“If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.”
“If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy!”
“If a frog is placed into a pot of boiling water it will immediately try to jump out; but if it’s placed into a pot of cool water that’s gradually heated until boiling, it will stay put and never try to jump out.”
Source: Frog in the Pot
“If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.”
“If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.”
“If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.”
Source: Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].
“If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.”
“If a gene could build a brain that could tell when copies of itself were sitting in another animal's gonads, it would make the brain enjoy the other animal's well-being, and make it act in ways that increased that other animal's well-being.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.”
“If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules
“If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.”
“If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.”
“If a ghost story is told by a ghost, does that mean it must be true? Would a ghost lie?”
Source: The Bell Tower Ghosts and Other Stories
“If a girl breaks off her engagement, everyone says: “Oh, she had someone else in her mind; she hopes to get someone else.” It’s disgusting, brutal! As if a girl can’t break it off for the sake of freedom.”
Source: A Room with a View
“If a girl breaks up with me, I want her to just die, just be dead. Not 'cause I hate her so much as it's just easier for when my friends go, 'Hey, what happened?' 'Oh, she's dead. I'd still be with her, but she's dead. What can I do? She was loving me, but she's dead.'”
“If a girl comes into your arms, that's pretty romantic.”
“If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.”
“If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?”
“If a girl gets assaulted, it's not because she was drunk. It's because somebody decided to assault her.”
“If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.”
“If a girl has the potential and excellence to become what she wants, she obviously will become that. But if we believe in our silly thoughts like 'girls can't do that,' that will be the worst silly thing.”
“If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.”
“If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.”
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE