I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If any of the great avatars - Buddha, Jesus, Khrishna, Mohammed - were present in human form on this planet today, what would they be doing? I doubt they would be posting selfies.”
“If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?”
Source: Inara
“If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.”
“If any of this ended in an explosion, I hoped it would be one that made us burn brighter, stronger than ever before.”
Source: Mariam Sharma Hits the Road
“If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?”
“If any of us ever re-worried abot a request, Mom would say, "If you think you can handle it better than God, it´s coming out."Just the suggestion that we thought we were more powerful than God put us in out places and made us stop fretting and start believing.”
Source: The God Box
“If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931
“If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.”
“If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.”
“If any of you are injured, take a seat in this fine classroom.” Dee opens up the nearest door and peeks in. It’s a classroom with a life-sized skeleton hanging on a stand. “Bones will keep you company while you wait for the doctor.”
Source: World After
“If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.”
“If any of you cry at my funeral I'll never speak to you again.”
“If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.”
“If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.”
“If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.”
“If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.”
“If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.”
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.”
“If any of you medieval monkeys ever try to harm her again, I will wipe your Vatican off the face of Rome!”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“If any of you need anything at all, too bad. Deal with your problems yourselves, like adults.”
“If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in response to those lines. There was nowhere he could hide in such a song that had all of its doors and windows open, so that he could walk out of it artlessly, the antiphonal responses blending with him as if he were no longer on stage.”
Source: Divisadero
“If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.”
“If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.”
Source: The Journal of Brigham: Brigham Young's Own Story in His Own Words
“If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of Pope Pius XII, the most reactionary head of the most reactionary single force in the world - a force that binds men's minds, a force that divides them, a force that chains them so that they are unable to think and act for themselves.”
“If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.”
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.”
Source: The Joyful Heart
“If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.”
“If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.”
“If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.”
“If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.”
Source: Two treatises of government
“If any one thing brings me immaculate joy… it is truly moral, educated, and righteous justice displayed with gleeful hubris directly in the face of its antithesis.”
“if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”
“If any other religious cult knew so few basic facts about its own seminal beliefs as the liberal cult does about Joe McCarthy, Janet Reno would gas them.”
Source: Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
“If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.”
“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.”
Source: Letters of Francis Parkman
“If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.”
“If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“If any person claims to have loved twice in all their life — they have not loved at all.”
Source: Lullabies
“If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of”
“If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.”
“If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.”
“If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.”
“If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
“If any player has a bad game its there in the back of your mind in the next game. Theres always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.”
“If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words