I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch
“If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?”
“If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target”
“If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!”
“If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!”
Source: Up the Down Staircase
“If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.”
Source: Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
“If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.”
“If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?”
“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”
Source: Football: Winning Offense
“If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.”
“If a technology is beneficial, everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it.”
“If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.”
“If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
“If a terrified bird comes to rest on your hands or
shoulders, it is your obligation to become a tree. Do not breathe aloud, lest you scare it away. Do not deny it your comfort, even if you are a barren tree.”
Source: Cardiophoros
“If a texture looks inviting, we take this as a "haptic invitation" (an appeal to our sense of touch to have a positive tactile experience).”
Source: Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing
“If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.”
“If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.”
“If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.”
“If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.”
Source: The Idea of Justice
“If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.”
Source: Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
“If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would ask people to get with that feeling of insecurity, because after all, the client is being asked to do the same thing. It has a kind of a quality of two human beings in the same situation, really, working through these psychological processes. And yeah, you hired me; I'm working for you as a therapist. But I'm not up here and you're down there. And what you're struggling with, at other times and with other areas I'm struggling with.”
“If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!”
“If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.”
Source: The 'De Monarchia' of Dante
“If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.”
Source: Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2
“If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.”
“If a thing can't go on forever, it will eventually stop.”
“If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.”
Source: Castle Roogna
“If a thing goes without saying -- let it.”
Source: Speech openers and closers
“If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.”
“If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.”
“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”
Source: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
“if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.”
“If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for.”
“If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.”
“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!”
“If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.”
Source: VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF
“If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)”
“If a third of the stories in the Decameron mock religion, two-thirds celebrate sex.”
Source: The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
“If a thought or action is perceived as undesirable, you will not want to do it. It is that simple. Change your mindset; perception is king.”
“If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.”
“If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.”
Source: Christ in modern life: sermons
“If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“If a thousand suns
had risen
in the sky
all at once,
such brilliance
would be
the brilliance
of that great self.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita