I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If banks drive sustainability, almost everyone can be engaged, for banks are the bloodstream of an economy.”
Source: SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service
“If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
“If Barack Obama believes there are no victims in U.S, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout the federal government, starting with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. If there are no victims, all affirmative action laws will immediately be repealed. Same thing for equity in pay.”
“If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.”
“If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.”
“If Barack Obama was to say Egypt, with the Muslim Brotherhood, is an ally, he's going to be destroyed here by, you know, the opposition saying, "How come you can say that the Islamists are your ally when these people are the same who are Hamas, and Hamas is against Israel?" It's the end of it. So he's saying, "We are just wait and see; we are trying to deal."”
“If Barack Obama's policies, as he just put the new stages through into operation, if that policy is allowed, you're going to see, open, Hitler-style genocide applied to a large section of the population, who are considered "not fit to survive," "not fit to live"! Just like Hitler, "lives unfit to live."”
“If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!”
“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”
“If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not as a theoretician of a still hazy semiology, but as the champion of a new pleasure in reading.”
Source: The Seventh Function of Language
“If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.”
“If Batgirl’s origin sounds like standard comic book fare, it was. But it was her motivations that set Batgirl apart from her sister heroines of the ’60s.”
Source: Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
“If Bea was going to list her fears in descending order of greatness, surely being widely known as a deranged killer ranked higher than meeting the staff at the Matlock ancestral home.”
Source: A Wretched Folly: A Regency Cozy
“If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?”
“If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.”
“If beautiful flowers were edible, you would eat them stale because you would use fresh flowers for decoration and display. Life is like a rare beautiful flower which is edible. We spend most of it in displaying to others.”
“If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.”
“If ‘beauty’ be the self-satisfied pride she bears,each fly does wing around her cherubic sweet face,as they; lovers seek what her anonymous covers,and dream them in a transient trace.”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“If beauty catches the eye, then character captures the heart.”
Source: Stories For Kids: The Lost Treasure of the Desert: An Adventurous Quest for Hidden Wonders Ages 7-12
“If beauty connects us to the world and to ourselves, it also gives us a sense of belonging. It confers our place in the larger tapestry of life and fuels creative power and imagination, adding depth and meaning to our journey. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
“If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world.”
Source: I Love You Too
“If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.”
Source: Little Eve Edgarton
“If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.”
“If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer.”
“If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.”
“If beauty is pain — let me get lost in it. If you’re my salvation — I want to earn it. If love is all I have to give — then let me give it. You. It’s all for you.”
Gabe’s eyes opened and locked in on mine.
“How can I prove that what I feel is real? You ask for truth I give you lies. You ask for joy I make you cry. But I don’t want to lose you. Not like this. Not when I’ve left your heart in such a mess. Give me one chance — I’m letting go of the past — but I need you here to know.”
“If beauty is pain — let me get lost in it. If you’re my salvation — I want to earn it. If love is all I have to give — then let me give it. You, it’s all for you.” He paused, hitting the last few notes, and the song ended.
Gabe’s smile lit up the room.
But I was frozen in place.
Me. He’d sung that to me.”
Source: Toxic
“If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?”
“If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.”
Source: Style wars
“If beauty so far removed from the animal is passionately desired, it is because to possess is to sully, to reduce to the animal level. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.”
Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality
“If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.”
Source: Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations
“If becoming your most extraordinary self doesn't inspire you,
if claiming your greatness doesn't get you moving in the morning,
if you don't think you are worthy of going after your best life,
then dedicate this year to someone else and make it your best for them.”
“If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.”
“If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.”
“If bees die, people will die. Only ignorance never dies! ("Why step out of nature ?")”
“If bees make honey, you can create candy.
If flowers make gardens, you can create perfumes.
If plants make herbs, you can create medicine.
If deserts make dunes, you can create oases.
If seeds make trees, you can create forests.
If clouds make rain, you can create lakes.
If stars make light, you can create lamps.
If stones make hills, you can create garrisons.
If rocks make mountains, you can create towers.
If spiders make webs, you can create fortresses.
If ants make colonies, you can create houses.
If bees make hives, you can create mansions.
If termites make mounds, you can create palaces.
If birds make nests, you can create castles.”
“If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.”
“If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.”
“If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.”
“If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.”
“if before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.”
Source: Blindness
“if, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the
consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate
consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the
imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where
our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and the evil resulting
from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves,
one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way,
throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days,
when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves
or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is
the much-talked-of immortality, Possibly,”
Source: Blindness
“If before the severe judge idle speech is reprehended, how much more that which is hurtful. Consider, then, how damnable those words be, which proceed of malice, when that talk shall be punished which proceedeth only from idleness.”
Source: The Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great
“If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.”
“If beginnings are certain to occur, endings are certain to end.”
“If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.”
Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly
“If behavior is contagious, is yours worth catching?”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“If beheading is the medicine of headache, no man can live; why cant you find the real way out?”
“If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.”
Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
“If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.”
Source: ON READING: Le plaisir de lire
“If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.”