I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”
“If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“If all dreams were destined to come true, would life still hold its meaning?”
“If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.”
“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”
“If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change.”
Source: What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
“If all else fails, a few deep breaths.”
“If all else fails, I could go to a train station and open up my saxophone case and make some bucks. I can do "Mary Had A Little Lamb," I can do "Happy Birthday."”
“If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.”
“If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.”
“If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.”
“If all else fails, you can always be a pro.”
“If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.”
“If all else falls apart
I'll be that constant in your life
I'll be there as a person
As a friend
As a partner
Always
All the time”
Source: The Ineffable Taste Of You
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
“If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.”
“If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”
Source: Critical Studies
“If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.”
Source: Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education: Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, and Published at Their Request
“If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.”
Source: Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts
“If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.”
“If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns, breakdown of social order, water shortages, and outbreaks of bloodshed and disease.”
“If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of future generations; enough to end disease, poverty and injustice forever; enough to create heights of flourishing unimaginable today. And if we could learn to reach out further into the cosmos, we could have more time yet: trillions of years, to explore billions of worlds. Such a lifespan places humanity in its earliest infancy. A vast and extraordinary adulthood awaits.”
Source: The Precipice
“If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.”
“If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.”
“If all had to wait for better things until they could be provided for all, that day would in many instances never come. Even the poorest today owe their relative material well-being to the results of past inequality.”
Source: The Constitution of Liberty
“If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.”
Source: The Founders of Geology
“If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.”
Source: Prelude to Foundation
“If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.”
“If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.”
“If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.”
“If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.”
“If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.”
“If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.”
“If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.”
“If all I had was all that money could buy, I'd be bankrupt!" EL”
Source: A Cup of Hope for the Day
“If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.”
“If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.”
“If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.”
“If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.”
“If all is Consciousness, experience its infinity, create your own journey through it, be amazed.”
“If all is happening perfectly then all that we are feeling is also perfect, which means if there is something happening that feels like it needs to be changed, then change it.”
“If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.”
“If all it takes is a couple of burning bushes, magic tricks and fairytales to quench your quest for truth, you have neither the brain, nor the backbone, or the heart to explore truth.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?”
Source: Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know
“If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.”
“If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.”
“If all lives did really matter, black lives matter wouldn't have been born in the first place.”