I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?”
“If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!”
“If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.”
“If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.”
“If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.”
“If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.”
“If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.”
Source: Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner
“If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.”
“If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.”
“If Conrad remembered the skinny, frightened girl he'd held for one brief moment on a frigid Boston street corner, he showed no signs of it when we met
...
Even as I tried to urge hum back against the pillows, he looked at me with wild eyes.
"What happened to your leather jacket?" he asked.
"Shh," I said, trying to sooth him. "There's no leather jacket."
"You were wearing it the first time I saw you," he said, frowning slightly.”
Source: Annabel
“If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.”
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“If consciousness is a dream, you’re not just a figure drifting through fog—you’re the mind that spun it.”
Source: 9 Analogies of Consciousness
“If consciousness is currency, I've got me a goldmine!”
Source: The Spell of Rosette
“If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.”
Source: 2012: The year of the Mayan prophecy
“If consciousness is the most important and valuable thing in the entire world, then you should be mindful of what you spend that consciousness on.”
Source: sciVive
“If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too.
I have no interest in living a balanced life.
I want a life of adventure.”
“If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.”
Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)
“If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the network evening news, universities, church bureaucracies, the New York Times, or the Washington Post. Institutions that are overwhelmingly left-liberal will continue to misinform the public and distort public discourse.”
“If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.”
“If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'”
“If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.”
“If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.”
“If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.”
“If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.”
“If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.”
“If consumers weren't thinking this way, companies would be a lot less responsive. Right now, consumers don't really have a way to get information about where exactly their clothing is coming from - that's a barrier. We have labels on your eggs, "cage-free hens." They need to get something along those lines to allow the consumer to discriminate.”
“If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless.
"Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".”
“If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases our courage. So that's the difference, self-centered motivation versus altruistic motivation.”
“If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and if we emulated Jesus' example in accepting the faith and the courage of those who live beyond conventional standards of purity, well, I can hardly imagine how things would look.”
Source: Sinners: Jesus and His Earliest Followers
“If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers.”
Source: Rationality
“If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it”
“If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.
“If Content is king and Context is queen, then Conversation is the kingdom and Contact information is the currency”
“If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.”
“If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work”
“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
“If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.”
“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.”
“If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half of all presidents. But his economic performance and his statesmanship suggest Coolidge belongs in the top quarter of presidents. The disparity between the Coolidge price and Coolidge value is huge. So revision is warranted.”
“If cooperation among governments were the superior concept for progress in Europe, I'd be onboard immediately. But the problem is that cooperation isn't working.”
“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.”
“If core values are not upheld or honored by yourself or others. then you will not be able to sustain peace or happiness.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist.”
“If corporations are persons, they're psychopaths.
They only care about their own self-interest and have neither a conscience nor empathy.
They'll walk over dead bodies to make a profit.
They pretend to be woke or care about you or the environment only if it serves them and increases profits.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert
“If corruption had already taken root,
then good seeds must be preserved.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?”
“If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.”
“If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.”
“If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.”
Source: Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy