I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If (a girl or) a woman rejects me, I wish her best of Luck to find someone better.”
“If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.”
“If a girl thinks she isn't beautiful, I'm here to prove her wrong.”
“If a girl turns at you, she likes you.
If a girl turns at you twice, she thinks you're a nice guy.
And you know what happens to nice guys
Go home... Game over”
Source: I.T. Hurts
“If a girl understands your BS, sticks with you through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for her, it's obvious she's a keeper. But it's also obvious you don't deserve her.”
“If a girl wants to sell her body, so be it. None of my business. Don't athletes sell their bodies, too? People can do behind closed doors whatever they want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York
“If a girl wears a shirt and a skirt, does she become more sensuous? I think a girl in a sari is more sensuous than a girl in a skirt. In my opinion, a wet sari is the most sensuous.”
“If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.”
“If a given idea has been held in the human mind for many generations, as almost all our common ideas have, it takes sincere and continued effort to remove it; and if it is one of the oldest we have in stock, one of the big, common, unquestioned world ideas, vast is the labor of those who seek to change it.”
Source: The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
“If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.”
Source: The substance of man
“If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration.”
“If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well.”
Source: Sharks in the Time of Saviors
“If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?”
“If a golden retriever asked you to spit out its missing heir, what direction would you say was the wind vane?
Poem - Help Me Solve This Puzzle In Between The Middle Of My Midbrain.
December 14, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.”
“If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.”
“If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.”
“If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.”
“If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.”
“If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.”
“If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.”
“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people – then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilization is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import cargo.”
“If a good thing is going out of your life despite all your efforts, don’t cling to it otherwise you will miss the better things coming your way.
If a bad thing is staying in your life despite all your efforts, let it stay for some more time. It is probably stopping a worse thing from coming in and taking its place.”
“If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.”
“If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.”
“If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.”
“If a government has come to a point not afraid of the people, the people must remind the government that they should be afraid of the people! The people who do not respond on the streets to the arrogance of governments are nothing but herds of coward sheep that have approved fascism!”
“If a government has the weak eyesight of a mole, that government only brings disaster to that country! The ability to see far is an absolute must to be a good government!”
“If a government is born of merit and character, they would not need pressure from humanitarians and activists to reform its out-of-date policies - they would do it on their own, because they are accountable.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.”
“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
“If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.”
“If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.”
“If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.”
“If a great man had to be imprisoned for success,
he would be prepared to be imprisoned for a lifetime. If a coward had to be imprisoned for success, he would prefer to be a failure for a lifetime.”
“If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.”
Source: Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey
“If a great mansion is located in a wrong environment, it loses its real value! So it is, when a great and true genius fails to get the right stage, its real value is least seen!”
“If a great opportunity arises, you can't say no. But you do have to pick and choose a little more.”
“If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.”
“If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.”
“If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.”
“If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.”
“If a great winged angel had come up from the earth and burst apart, I would have gathered its feathers”
Source: Martyr!
“If a group isn't being actively inclusive, it's being passively exclusive. This passive attitude results in lifestyle communities that do not reflect the local population.”
Source: Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
“If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?”
“If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!”
“If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.”
“If a group of people has no sense where they came from-it is difficult for them to have a sense where they should go.”