I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a member of the military can be killed and left in the road, in front of his own house, then who will be safe in this country?”
Source: Between Everything and Nothing
“If a memoir needs a reason, mine is simply that wonderful things become even more wonderful for me if I can share them and dreadful things more bearable.”
Source: "Here's Someone I'd Like You to Meet": Tales of Innocents, Musicians and Bureaucrats
“If a memory or a particular sadness we feel is capable of disappearing, to the point where we no longer notice it, it can also return and sometimes remain there for a long time. There were evenings when, as I crossed the town on my way to the restaurant, I felt so great a pang of longing for Mme de Guermantes that it took my breath away: it was as if part of my breast had been cut out by a skilled anatomist and replaced by an equal part of immaterial suffering, by an equivalent degree of nostalgia and love. And however neat the surgeon’s stitches are, life is rather painful when longing for another person is substituted for the intestines; it seems to occupy more space than they do; it is a constantly felt presence; and then, how utterly unsettling it is to be obliged to think with part of the body! Yet it does somehow make us feel more authentic.”
Source: The Guermantes Way
“If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.”
“If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?”
“If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.”
“If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.”
“If a misunderstanding happens between two people, both are correct in their point of view; there is no absolute perfection. How they accept the difference is what makes them a couple.”
“If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!”
Source: William Shakespeare
“If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.”
“If a monster says hello to you, you should say hello to it. If you don’t, then I have to wonder which one of you is really the monster.”
Source: There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
“If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.”
“If a mother cannot meet her baby’s impulses and needs, [quoting Donald Winnicott] ‘the baby learns to become the mother’s idea of what the baby is.’ Having to discount its inner sensations, and trying to adjust it its caregiver’s needs, means the child perceives that ‘something is wrong’ with the way it is. Children who lack physical attunement are vulnerable to shutting down the direct feedback from their bodies, the seat of pleasure, purpose, and direction.”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score / Trauma and Recovery / Hidden Healing Powers
“If a mother has an unhealthy need to dominate her children-which she demonstrates by bullying, terrifying, neglecting, suffocating, indulging, humiliating, overprotecting or abusing them- those children must come to the recognition that such treatment is wrong in order to begin the long process of recovery and ultimate understanding.”
Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to ‘glorify God and enjoy Him forever’. A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bath him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild.”
“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.”
“If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.”
Source: Prisoners of Childhood
“If a motive is truly human, then by labeling it, you only diminish its outreach and capacities.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.”
“If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.”
“If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.”
“If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.”
“If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.”
“If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.”
“If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.”
“If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it. ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."”
“If a movie makes money, then it's a success.”
“If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.”
“If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?”
“If a musician cares about what he or she is doing, and you show up and care, you can go some place. That will never change. There are a number of ways to approach this, and my favorite is the way we're doing it now - just talking.”
“If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.”
“If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.”
Source: Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
“If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.”
“If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.”
“If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.”
“If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?”
“If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.”
“If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.”
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.”
“If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816
“If a nation has a love of freedom as big as a small stream that continues to flow freely even in the coldest weather, it is impossible for a dictator to survive in that nation's country!”
“If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.”
“If a nation is backward, it's because of its parents and teachers, who raise either spineless insects or unscrupulous con artists.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!”
“If a nation is not able to monetize its assets, then it’ll have to beg for money from the developed parts of the world.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“If a nation is progressing, the nation will prosper”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”