I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.”
Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
“If anything belongs in the Shepherd of the Night's flocks, lad, it's Trollocs.”
“If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.”
“If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.”
Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman
“If anything can be said of our homes, may it be that they are safe places for our children. Places where they can be encouraged in their gifts and comforted in their struggles. Places where they can share their fears and express their sorrows. Places where they can be heard and known and taken seriously. We create a safe haven for our family because children thrive when they feel safe, but also because this is love.”
Source: The Wild and Free Family: Forging Your Own Path to a Life Full of Wonder, Adventure, and Connection
“If anything can go wrong, it will.”
“If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.”
“If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.”
“If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.”
“If anything changes, I'll just take it in stride. For now, I can still walk down the street and quite happily not get noticed.”
“If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.”
“If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.”
“If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.”
“If anything for your "health and safety" is ruled primarily by dollars and cents, it will trump common sense. Remember that.”
“If anything gives meaning to our lives, rich or poor, yesterday or today, here or elsewhere, it is affection. Without it, every bit of philosophical or scientific research will leave us in an existential emptiness. Life is viable because someone, even just once, looked at us with love.”
Source: Lemon Twist
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”
“If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.”
“If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.”
“If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between Ukraine and Russia. The two of them will have to get together at some point. It is going to be a result that many people in the West will not like, because Russia, as the bigger power, is going to get the better of the deal. So, a lot of people will say, that's appeasement. That's this - that - it's reality.”
“If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.”
Source: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
“If anything happened to you, I'd be so destroyed they'd have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian.”
“If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.”
“If anything happens to me, I hope that I would've raised my children in a way that they know how to take care of themselves. I want them to know how to make themselves happy. It's important to work in a field that you absolutely love so that even when problems arise, you love what you do.”
“If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.”
“If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon”
“If anything happens, Marcus will save you. Won't you, Marcus? Hale asked, looking up at the man, who nodded. It would be an honor, Miss.”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.”
Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.”
Source: Androphilia: A Manifesto: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity
“If anything I consider myself an anarchist.”
“If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.”
“If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.”
“If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.”
“If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.”
“If anything in the universe is sacred or valuable, it’s life itself. We should love our lives deeply. The universe has no other way to understand itself apart from life, and it does so in many different forms. Life gives meaning to the universe; there’s no need for any additional purpose to life. Simply being alive is a complete and fulfilling experience in itself.”
Source: For Humans To Know: New Revised Edition
“If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.”
“If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.”
Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.”
“If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.”
“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.”
Source: Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83
“If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.”
“If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.”
Source: The solace of open spaces
“If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
“If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.”
“If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.”
“If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.”
“If ANYTHING is meant to be, it will be ONLY if you work out the methodologies for it to be.
Things just don't be because they work themselves out to be, or they want to be.
They be because someone conceived them to be, and worked them out to be.
Therefore, debunk the idea of leaving your THINGS to be in the fragile gamble of fate.
MAKE THEM BE!”
“If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting”
“If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.”
“If anything is worth doing then do it with all your dedication and passion, you never know what success it may bring to you.
Think once! Follow your passion...”