I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.”
“If a religious text is transmitted generations after generations with perfect historical accuracy and consistency and whose descriptive statements about history and future are verified perfectly and whose descriptive statements about what we see across nature and within ourselves is accurate and verified by established discoveries of modern science, then it is certainly a very serious candidate for us to consult in exploring the question of why life and for what purpose? As a matter of fact, Qur’an is such a book which comes true on all the above mentioned characteristics.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.”
“If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.”
“If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse Jackson and start shouting, "Racism!" And then Al Sharpton wouldn't be as far behind, and they would call it an attempt to eliminate people of color by the dastardly, rascally Republicans. But yet Hillary Clinton is proposing it and is being feted, praised to the heavens for such a compassionate plan. The Democrats are wiping out their own people. That's why they need open borders for replacements to be brought in ASAP.”
“If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night.”
“If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.”
“If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.”
“If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.”
“If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.”
Source: Essay on Marxian Economics
“If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!”
“If a robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage,
How feels heaven when
Dies the billionth battery hen?”
“If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.”
“If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.”
Source: Dissolution
“If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.”
“If a satire breeds misconceptions, it's an effective satire. The more misconceptions, the more powerful the messages within the satire. Satire can be witty and wise, so it would behoove the reader to drop all their judgmental baggage and other distortions at the cover before entering the pages of satire.”
“If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.”
“If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.”
“If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.”
“If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.”
“If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.”
“If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.”
“If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.”
“If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.”
“If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.”
Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
“If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.”
“If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.”
“If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.”
“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!”
Source: The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)
“If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.”
“If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.”
“If a self-organizing system becomes too static, it runs down; if it becomes too chaotic, it breaks apart.”
“If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.”
“If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.”
“If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying, eros, eros, eros.”
“If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.”
“If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.”
“If a shadow begins to think of itself as light, what should we say to him? Don't say anything, just bring him to the light!”
“If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.”
“If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?”
Source: Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 16)
“If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.”
“if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?”
“If a Shelia is gonna break the rules, she has to have studied the rule book first.”
Source: Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History
“If a shepherd needs a shepherd for himself, then the herd of that shepherd is in danger!”
“If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.”
“If a shop has a lot of sections I'll end up putting my record above the James Blunt CDs since he ripped off my bloody artwork and he's selling millions of records! I try to get people to buy mine accidentally.”