I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.”
“If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.”
“If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.”
“If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
Source: If: Devotional Edition
“If by excessive labor we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master's service, then glory be to God. We shall have so much less of earth and so much more of heaven. It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus.”
“If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.”
“If by force you make a creature live and work like a beast, you must think of him as a beast, else empathy would drive you mad. Once you have classified him in your mind, your feelings are safe. And if your heart has human vestiges of courage and anger, which in a man are virtues, then you have fear of a dangerous beast, and since your heart has intelligence and inventiveness and the ability to conceal them, you live with terror. Then you must crush his manlike tendencies and make of him the docile beast you want. And if you can teach your child from the beginning about the beast, he will not share your bewilderment.”
“If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
“If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.”
“If by growing a goatee you hope to come
upon wisdom,
then, O wise friend, any smelly goat in
a handsome beard
is at once Plato.”
“If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.”
“If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.”
“If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get to know you?”
“If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.”
“If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.”
Source: The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill
“If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.”
“If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.”
“If by now you are thinking of me as a nutcase, it’ll somewhat redeem me from being middle-of-the-road, which after all is what we’re all about. Not being so-so. Not being fair-to-middling. Not being run-of-the-mill”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“If by now you're a little confused, don't be too hard on yourself. Life is confusing, and anyone who claims that she has all the answers has probably uncovered the wrong ones.”
Source: Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
“If by peace, you mean terrorized to my bones of rotting in jail, then sure, let’s call that peace”
Source: The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran
“If by prayer
Incessant I could hope to change the will
Of him who all things can, I would not cease
To weary him with my assiduous cries;
But prayer against his absolute decree
No more avails than breath against the wind
Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth:
Therefore to his great bidding I submit.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Seven Embellishments
“If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.”
“If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.”
“If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences”
“If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.”
“If by some chance you exceed my threshold, I’ll be sure to let you know. Now stop asking and start taking.”
Source: Winter's Mother 1
“If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”
Source: Annals of the Former World
“If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.”
“If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.”
“If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“If by studying Bhagavad-gītā one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sinful reactions.”
“If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“If by the end of the day you haven’t learned something new, then maybe you should be doing something new.”
“If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.”
Source: What the Buddha Taught
“If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.”
“If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.”
“If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.”
Source: The art of growing old
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA's state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts [...] That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. Then that most nonaddicted adult civilians have already absorbed and accepted this fact, often rather early on [...] That sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused [...] That purposeful sleep-deprivation can also be an abusable escape. That gambling can be an abusable escape, too, and work, shopping, and shoplifting, and sex, and abstention, and masturbation, and food, and exercise, and meditation/prayer [...] That loneliness is not a function of solitude [...] That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee. That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt [...] That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness [...] That the effects of too many cups of coffee are in no way pleasant or intoxicating [...] That if you do something nice for somebody in secret, anonymously, without letting the person you did it for know it was you or anybody else know what it was you did or in any way or form trying to get credit for it, it's almost its own form of intoxicating buzz.
That anonymous generosity, too, can be abused [...]
That it is permissible to want [...]
That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.”
Source: Notes from No Man's Land
“If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.”
“if ‘caged’ then a Man, if ‘freed’ then a “God”
“If California is any indicator, I'm proud that the public here saw right through it and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers.”
“If called by a panther, don't anther.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“If Callum ever gets out of the way, I would like to rekindle what we had. We never had a real chance together.”
Source: True Teryn
“If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic”
“If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert where your remains lay decomposing for several decades until they're accidentally discovered by some guy on a journey to awaken his spirit at the Salinas Pueblo Missions, can I have your iMac?" I gaped at her. "You've really thought this out. "I love your iMac." "I love my iMac too, and you're not getting her." "But you'll be decomposing.”