I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If Bodhidharma is the ideal man, it is because his image is that of a hero who has broken the chains of illusion that enclose man in the world of emotions. The hammer that is used to break these chains is the practice of Zen.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.”
Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
“If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?”
Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice
“If Bombay is India's New York-glamorous, glitzy, vulgar-chic, a merchant city, a movie city, a slum city, incredibly rich, hideously poor- then Delhi is like Washington. Politics is the only game in town. Nobody talks about anything else for very long.”
Source: Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
“If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.”
Source: Kolyma Tales
“If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!”
“If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.”
“If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.”
“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!”
“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.”
Source: The Winter Room
“If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met. Whap the girls on the butts and send them off to their tricks as fast and often as I can.”
Source: NOS4A2
“If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.”
“If books where my friends, I would have a lot!”
“If boredom scares you, mastery will forever evade you.”
Source: Teach Your Child About Money Through Play: 110+ Games/Activities, Tips, and Resources to Teach Kids Financial Literacy at an Early Age
“If Borges’s constant vaivén (between politics and metaphysics, between north and south, between the small and the vast, between the universal and the insular) proves something, it is that literature’s relationship to borders of any kind is an arbitrary imposition. Nationalities, hemispheres, periods, schools, genres, and themes are artificial boundaries that may be useful for taxonomical purposes, but literature, as Borges repeatedly shows, should be read and written with a joyful disregard for these classifications.”
Source: Borges, Between History and Eternity
“If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.”
“If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.”
“If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.”
Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more
“If both Evendell and I survived this, we would have to discuss his timing when explosives were involved.”
Source: The Shadow Throne
“If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.”
“If both sides determine; I Love You, sure it works to fragrance heart and mind.”
“If both sides of a bridge are the same, it is best to stand in a different place: on the bridge!”
“If both sides of a bridge are very bad then the bridge becomes meaningless because for something to be meaningful it must contribute to a positive change in your life!”
“If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.”
“If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl”
“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”
“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
“If boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh.”
“If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it’s like, ‘Well, of course he did.’ With me, it should be, ‘Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I’ll get me a Kristen Bell.’ But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with.”
“If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.”
“If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.”
“If Brahman an infinite ocean, then Atma a wave within be,
Ocean not different from its waves, the waves as ocean be;
They are but one and the same very similar in actuality,
So Brahman and Atma are one and the same in reality.
960”
Source: Goals of Life
“If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.”
Source: Losing It
“If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons are killed by the millions, let us, mothers, only try to do good by going to the kings and emperors without any other danger than a refusal.”
“If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.”
“If brainstorming becomes 'blamestorming' by reason of time pressure or on account of pure laziness, the truth may be assaulted and unyieldingly vilified . Blamestorming becomes then downright a perfidious appeal to scapegoating with a torrent of frantic manhunts for 'culprits on duty'. ('Blamestorming')”
“If branding is a process, then it stands to reason that there must be a point where the process is initiated. The question is, at what point do you start the process to set yourself apart?”
Source: Opportunities in the New Economy and Beyond: Birthing Entrepreneurs in a Pandemic Economy to Create Successful Businesses and New Wealth
“If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.”
“If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.”
Source: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature
“if breasts were detachable, would you leave them behind”
Source: Meant to Wake Up Feeling
“If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.”
“If Brian Harvey from East 17 has lived there, it can’t be that fucking bad”
Source: Steel Dogs
“If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.”
“If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.”
“If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.”
“If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?”
“If Britain becomes a member of the Community, it will be healthier for Britain, advantageous for Europe, and a gain for the whole world. I do not know of many economic or political problems in the world which will be easier to solve if Britain is outside rather than inside the Community.”