I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.”
“If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it's time to sell out, and the market will plunge.”
“If a lot of people feel like this company is undervalued and go out and buy the stock, the stock price will go up reflecting the higher value of this company. You might have information because you trade with them or because you've done some research on them.”
“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.”
“If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.”
“If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.”
“If a Lumbee worldview exists, it radiates from Robeson.”
Source: On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
“If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
“If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.”
Source: Men of Mathematics
“If a machine ever gains awareness, it will be not due to our careful programming, but due to an unforeseeable anomaly.”
Source: The Gospel of Technology
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
Source: The Essential Turing
“If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.”
“If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.”
Source: The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4
“If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.”
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
“If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.”
“If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.”
“If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.”
“If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.”
“If a man and a woman marry in order to be companions on the journey from earth to heaven, then their union will bring great joy to themselves and to others.”
Source: On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom
“If a man approaches another man in a disrespectful way, especially if they're at a high level in the streets, they're not going to listen to each other. You could be the boss of all bosses, but what gets to you - for real, under your skin, if you got a lady - is going to be your lady!”
“If a man asks if he should take flowers to a woman, the answer is always yes.” Waves of Grace”
Source: Waves of Grace
“If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty.
If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!”
“If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.”
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
“If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.”
Source: How To Sell Your Way Through Life
“if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.”
Source: Points of View
“If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.”
“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”
“If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.”
Source: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses
“If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“If a man boast of his attractiveness, he is unattractive.”
“If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut.”
“If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.”
“If a man breaks your heart, see it as a sign that you still haven’t learnt how to love yourself the right way. Men are catalysts for women’s TRUE self love and sensuality.
Any woman who has learnt how to love herself enough can’t be lived without. Her company is of high value and she’s an absolute turn on. Ladies, this is how you know you have arrived.”
“If a man breaks your heart, see it as a sign that you still haven’t learnt how to love yourself the right way. Men are catalysts for women’s TRUE self love and sensuality.
Any woman who has learnt how to love herself enough can’t be lived without. Her company is of high value and she’s intoxicating AF. Ladies, that’s how you know you have arrived.”
“If a man breaks your heart, see it as a sign that you still haven’t learnt how to love yourself the right way. Men are catalysts for women’s TRUE self love and sensuality. Any woman who loves herself enough can’t be lived without. That’s how you know you have arrived.”
“If a man breaks your heart, see it as a sign that you still haven’t learnt how to love yourself the right way. Men are catalysts for women’s TRUE self love and sensuality.
Ladies, this is how you know you have arrived, when you’ve learnt how to love yourself enough to attract the love that you know you deserve.”
“If a man breaks your heart, see it as a sign that you still haven’t learnt how to love yourself the right way. Men are catalysts for women’s TRUE self love. Any woman who loves herself enough can’t be lived without.”
“If a man breaks your heart, see it as a sign that you still haven’t learnt how to love yourself the right way. Men are catalysts for women’s TRUE self love. Any woman who loves herself enough can’t be lived without. That’s how you know you have arrived.”
“If a man breaks your heart, see it as a sign that you still haven’t learnt how to love yourself the right way. Men are catalysts to women’s TRUE self love and sensual awakening.
Ladies, this is how you know you have arrived, when you’ve learnt how to love yourself enough to attract the love that you know you deserve.”
“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.”
Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)
“If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.”
“If a man calls himself a philosopher and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him, and against [John] Locke's philosophy, in particular, I think is an unanswerable objection (that we needed any) that, although he carried his throat about with him in this world for seventy-two years, no man ever condescended to cut it. [On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, 1827]”
“If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”
Source: The Republic
“If a man can beat you, walk him.”
“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”
“If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.”
“If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.”