I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.”
“If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.”
“If being a gentleman was a guarantee of virtue, the population in this fair land would not be so high.”
Source: A Season at Sanditon
“If being a Guru is Tapasya .... Do please get me an equally powerful word in any other language! Would you accept its English translation as Austerity as a meaning? There is no parallel of the word Tapasya”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.”
Source: Christine
“If being a leader turns out to be a bad experience, it is almost always because of the leader’s own ineffectiveness. And considering that few people ever get any kind of specific training in leader effectiveness, it is easy to understand why being a leader so often is difficult, draining and disappointing.”
“If being a sex symbol means you have lots of sex, then I am glad to be a sex symbol. But in real life I'm not. That doesn't happen.”
“If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.”
“If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.”
“If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire best director category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.”
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
“If Being Beautiful Requires You To Change Your Identity, Remain Ugly.”
“If being brave were easy, more people would be.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit.”
“If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.”
“If being empathic is a sine qua non condition of a truly customercentric organisation, the only way to deliver on that quest is to show empathy to employees first.”
“If being forgetful is a sign of high intelligence, then people with Alzheimer's are like Isaac Whatshisname. You know, that one guy who did that one thing. Or was it two things?”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.”
“If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.”
“If being in a relationship distracts you from work, not being in a one won’t make you a billionaire.”
“If being in love made a person mad, then being away from the one you loved made you a lunatic.”
Source: Fallen Eden
“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like”
“If being lazy was an Olympic sport, I would totally win the bronze.”
Source: The Rudman Conjecture on Quantum Entanglement
“If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem.”
“If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.”
“If being premenstrual is “innocence,” does that make those of us with periods guilty? And this really gets to the heart of the matter: These concerns aren't about lost innocence; they're about lost girlhood. The virginity movement doesn't want women to be adults.
Despite the movement's protestations about how this focus on innocence or preserving virginity is just a way of protecting girls, the truth is, it isn't a way to desexualize them. It simply positions their sexuality as “good”— worth talking about, protecting, and valuing—and women's sexuality, adult sexuality, as bad and wrong. The (perhaps) unintended consequences of this focus is that girl's sexuality is sexualized and fetishized even further.”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“If being queer meant loving Aaron, then he'd own the label, at least internally.”
Source: No Apologies
“If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.”
“If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.”
“If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.”
“If being smart can improve the quality of lives, then choose to be and be smart.” - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow”
Source: Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome
“If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.”
“If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!”
“If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.”
“If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.”
“If being “too kind” breaks your heart, it’s not in vain.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.”
“If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others, nor would the taint of stinginess obsess the heart and stay there. even if it were their last and final bit of food, they would not enjoy its use without sharing it, if there were anyone to receive it”
“If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over ideas and the fought in the streets, Peshawar was the supermarket of the Islamists in the 1980s without drinking: there the discussions were about Islamic law, fatwas, the war of the believers, the unity of the Muslim nation, and the humanitarian needs of Afghan refugees.”
Source: Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
“If Belgium win the World Cup, I will cut my hair.”
“If belief in evolution is a requirement to be a real scientist, it’s interesting to consider a quote from Dr. Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School:
“In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at all.”
“If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.”
“If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.”
“If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.”
“If believers in God don't honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don't honor him, whatever we profess, because we hide his beauty from the eyes of the world. When we pour ourselves out for the poor—that gets the world's notice.”
Source: Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just
“If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.”
Source: A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World
“If believers would consider ministry to occur 'where two or three' are gathered unto His name, all sorts of opportunities throughout the day and week would open up.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.”
“If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.”
“If believing were simple, then this world wouldn’t be in the mess that it is today.”
Source: The Returns