I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If coming out as autistic as an adult is hard, it’s only because of the resistance of those around you. It doesn’t change the actual challenges you have in your job, your relationships, or your perception. Which is just such a perfect fact because the challenges you’ve always faced haven’t been due to the autism either — not really. They’ve been due to the way the world has been structured based on neurotypical thinking and socialization. In most cases, autism is a social disability, not a medical one.”
Source: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“If coming undone if what you need to gain clarity then do it while giving yourself grace. Do not forget that to live is to feel, connect, evolve, and become. The energy that comes in, must come out—it is a cycle of change.”
“If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.”
“If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.”
“If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.”
“If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.”
“If commitment is required to start, it is deeply important to persist to reach the end. All the path is done walking, where there are obstacles, go around them, where there are falls, get up, where you feel tired, rest, but never stop until you reach the destination.
Tania Tome (C)”
“If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.”
“If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars”
“If common sense is so rare, isn't it 'common sense' to start calling it rare sense?”
“If communication cannot achieve consensus, we must live with the broken pieces of unfulfilled expectations and recognize the failure of dialogue, trust, and reciprocity. In the meantime, let us identify the cracks and breaches in the blurred mirror of the past and build a new canvas of hope and clarity. ("Poste Restante")”
“If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.”
“If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.”
“If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.”
“If communities can play together
Why can't they pray together?
Unity initialised... communities #Mickeymized!”
“if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.”
“If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.”
“If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.”
“If companies try to leave our country to avoid paying their fair share, if they try to outsource jobs, they're going to have to give back every tax break they ever received in our country.”
“If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.”
“If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.”
Source: The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
“If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.”
“If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?”
“If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?”
“If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.”
“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“If complete victory is what you desire wholeheartedly, do not settle for mediocrity.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.”
“If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.”
“If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.”
“if compression leads to blue shifting and to a more conscious state, isn’t blue shifting something desirable? Prioritizing blue shifting will bring a person to a higher mental state, but that doesn't automatically equate to higher happiness. Anyways, every action in physical reality carries with it an equal and opposite reaction, so if you attempt to blueshift your brain matter while simultaneously using your mental focus to extricate any red shifting (slowing down) of details in your life, you'll become trapped in an optimism loop with no forward progress actually possible.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.”
“If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.”
“If computers take over, it will serve us right.”
“If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.”
Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.”
“If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.”
“If confirmed by further investigations, the identification of Yahweh as the Canaanite god of metallurgy may have significant implications for the way we approach the history of Israel and the emergence of monotheism.
First, the worship of Yahweh suddenly emerging with the Israelite Alliance becomes an Iron Age movement, the popularization of the beliefs of the Canaanite smelters. In this case, the novelty of the Israelite Alliance consists of the transformation of the (initiatory) cult of the Canaanite guild of copper smelters into a public cult.
Second, the uncompromising attitude observed in Israel towards deities other than Yahweh becomes a resurgence of a very ancient tradition, that of the Canaanite smelters, challenging the current gradualist view of emergence of monotheism from monolatry and henotheism.
Third, it seems that many of the biblical writings include traces of very ancient traditions, including those of the Canaanite metallurgists from the Bronze Age. Their identification and their comparison with other metallurgical traditions may be a tool that can be used in the identification of the various strata of redaction of the biblical texts. (p. 403)
(from 'Yahweh, the Canaanite God of Metallurgy?', JSOT 33.4 (2009): 387-404)”
“If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren.”
“If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.”
“If Congress asked a question, Henry was prepared to give an honest answer. That's probably why legislators never asked.”
Source: The Gilded Dinosaur: The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Science
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one.”
Source: James Madison's
“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.”
Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution
“If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.”
“If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.”
“If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.”
“If Congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”
“If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”
“If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful intelligence official, [James] Clapper, a pass? This is how J. Edgar Hoover ended up in charge of the FBI forever.”