I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.”
Source: The Sociopath Next Door
“If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.”
Source: Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The
“If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?”
Source: The Fable of the Bees
“If Covid-19 can [shut] an entire nation, then it is time to look at our educational systems again. Especially for ways to engage learners in their respective places - and that is the gamification way.”
“If COVID-19 can shut [down] an entire nation, then it’s time to look at our African educational system again, especially for ways to engage students in their respective places – and that is the gamification way.”
“If COVID-19 is like Spanish Flu, there will be a more severe resurgence in the Fall of 2020.”
“If COVID-19 was named after the country where it wreaked the most havoc, it would be called the ‘American Virus’.”
“If COVID-19 was the first pandemic, Monkeypox the second, what is the third pandemic going to be?”
“If COVID has shown us anything it is the need to be more empathetic leaders”
“If Covid19 makes you hateful towards China, remember this, when you hate a nation, you hate a people and when you hate a people, you lose the right to be called human.”
“If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.”
“If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.”
“If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?”
“If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.”
Source: Raven's Strike
“If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?”
“If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.”
“If creatively traveling up an escalator on your back were an Olympic sport, every gold medalist would be geriatric. There should be a soap fragrance for muddy ducks that captures that athletic dominance.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.”
“If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.”
Source: God in the Dock
“If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.”
“If crime keeps on happening in the same spot and same place or area. Police know about it and are doing anything about it. Just know those police are criminals or those criminals are police.”
“If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.”
Source: Anarchism; from theory to practice
“If criticism could kill you, I'd be dead.”
“If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.”
“If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.”
“If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.”
Source: Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually
“If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.”
Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
“If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.”
“If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.”
“If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.”
“If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.”
Source: The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings
“If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.”
“If crow speaks to the fox, he speaks to him from the top of the tree. (Si corbeau parle au renard, Il lui parle du haut de l' arbre)”
“If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as ‘unlawful enemy combatants.’ If you make this exception, the whole Constitution crumbles.”
“If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.”
“If Cuba is Hell, Miami is Purgatory.”
Source: Before Night Falls
“If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.”
“If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.”
“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”
“If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.”
“If Cupid misses the heart, he touches the body fatally. (Si Cupidon rate le cœur, - Il touche mortellement le corps)”
“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”
Source: Tithe
“If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.”
“If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.”
“If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Gregory of Nyssa (Annotated Edition)
“If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.”
“If customers are bursting with emotions, their rational thinking will get overpowered by their strong emotions.”
Source: The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For
“If customers are treated right, they'll come back.”
“If customers say you're just 'all right', you've not done enough, you've failed to delight.”
“If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies to reduce their advertising expenditure - simply because they do not understand its full value and especially as it is usually the single biggest investment on the balance sheet.”