I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”
“If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.”
“If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.”
“If a tortured artist hurls a nasty email at 10 p.m. and then a love song at 11:20, are you up or down?”
Source: Open Book
“If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.”
Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher
“If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.”
“If a toxic parent does not want to live in sin, they must not provoke their children to sin—especially by using the holy & righteous word to do it.”
“If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.”
“If a tradition endorses hate and mistrust, it’s the tradition that we must reject not people.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.”
“If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.”
“If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.”
Source: The Weight
“If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?”
“If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have gone astray, or if a debtor appeared unable to repay his debt, Kamaswami was never able to persuade Siddhartha that it was useful to speak words of worry or of anger, to have a wrinkled brow, or to sleep poorly.”
Source: Siddhartha
“If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it.”
“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
“If a tree falls in a forest, and you are not there, it is okay that you do not hear. But if a child cries in a warzone, and you are not there, is it still okay that you do not hear?”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?”
“If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?”
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?”
“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.”
“If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?”
“If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.”
“If A Tree Falls (Sonnet)
If a tree falls in the forest, but
nobody hears it, did it really fall!
If children are bombed to death,
but it's omitted from the news,
did the children really die!
If people are massacred by law,
but it's not on Netflix,
is it really a genocide!
If democracy is dismantled piece by piece,
but by government decree,
is it really illegal!
If the world is burnt to cinders,
but the privileged castles stay intact,
is the world really burning!”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?”
“If a tree has strong roots, not even the strongest hands can pluck it from where it stands.”
“If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.”
Source: The Winter Palace
“If a tree’s strength is judged while it is still a seed, it is mistaken as weak.”
Source: All You Need Is a Ball: What Soccer Teaches Us about Success in Life and Business
“If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.”
“If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times!”
“If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?”
“If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.”
Source: Mysterium coniunctionis
“If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.”
“If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.”
“If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.”
“If a vagabond from Calcutta with no resources, can become a champion of earth, imagine what you can achieve with all your modern means.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“If a vast majority of the population identify and embrace the nation’s value system, then that nation is automatically great. Because they will live out these values in their daily life.”
“if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.”
“If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.”
“If a vision can be calculated, it was never a vision.”
“If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.”
“If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.”
“If a waiter or waitress tells me when gratuity is included they automatically get more gratuity. When they hide it I go with the leg kick.”
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.”
“If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.”
“If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.”
“If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.”
“If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient matters, but it is in fact a matter of being unattached to life and death. With such non-attachment one can accomplish any feat.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai