I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.”
“If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.”
“If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.”
“If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.”
Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing
“If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected). The microbes choke and die after a few hours.”
Source: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
“If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.”
“If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.”
“If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.”
Source: The Invention of the Jewish People
“If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?”
Source: The Coming Storm
“If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.”
“If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.”
“If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.”
“If chance is less accidental than we think and the world is less self-governed, the outcome is also the same for believers and non-believers. All arguments and counterarguments become worthless because of existence's vastness and paradoxical nature or the universe itself. Under such a scenario, all views or counterarguments would fit equally on either side.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.”
“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“If change is fear, does it mean we will be less fearful when we change alongside the change?”
Source: Quantraz
“If change is inevitable and nothing is permanent, then apparently we can survive without adaptation.”
“If change is magic, then the process is the magician. Can we expect the magic to happen without a magician?”
Source: Quantraz
“If change is what you're after, unify your broadcast and quit muddying up the signals with thoughts that contradict your preferences. The experience of happiness, love and abundance is actually the default Life design. It's already available. You just need to clean out the debris that's blocking your view.”
Source: How I Met the Man of My Dreams: a guide to MANifesting yours
“If change isn’t making things better, it’s time for change.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.”
“If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: 'Lord, give Your blessing so that I may do this work in a manner that pleases You!' At the end, pray again to the Lord for forgiving any mistakes we may have committed during the task consciously or otherwise.”
“If chaos is a masterpiece,
Then you should see my heart.
If battle scars are beautiful,
Then I'm a work of art.”
“If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.”
“If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.”
Source: Character
“If 'character' had a body...'integrity' would be it's spinal cord and 'humility' it's heart.”
“If character is destiny, the good are damned.”
Source: God Knows
“If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.”
Source: Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft
“If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.”
“If charisma were rain, Blackman would be a desert.”
“If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?”
Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats”
“If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.”
“If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?”
“If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?”
Source: Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
“If Chase's wings are broken, then mine are shattered.”
Source: I Stand Before You
“If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!”
“If chasing something would diminish your dignity or the dignity of others, that is not your calling. If embracing something would require feeding your sense of ego or greed, that is not your calling. You may be tempted to believe that your values and your calling are flexible, but God's call never compromises His Word. Calling must flow from your beliefs and convictions and priorities, rather than push against them.”
Source: Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life
“If cheap labor rebels, the world’s gone crazy.”
Source: The Minecraft-inspired Misadventures of Frigiel and Fluffy Vol. 5
“If cheese was a woman, I'd marry her. I'd come home and eat her every night.”
“If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.”
“If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.”
“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
“If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.”
“If Chess is the switch,” Loretta said, “how does he turn the Fog off?”
Bea bit her lower lip. “I don’t know—ask Chess.”
“How would I know?” I said. “You try being a switch.”
Source: The Lost Compass
“If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.”
Source: Point Blank
“If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.”
Source: The province of the heart
“If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.”
“If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.”
“If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”