I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.”
“If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.”
“If during this time, or some other time we were separated, I wouldn't forget you. I'd recall how many years have passed knowing you.”
Source: 恋の話がしたい [Koi no Hanashi ga Shitai]
“If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.”
Source: The Federalist
“If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.”
Source: Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower
“If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.”
“If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.”
“If e’er a witless knave should cast his venom’d words upon thy name,
Let silence be thy shield, and stillness thy sword;
For in the hush of noble temper lies the triumph o’er folly.”
Source: Poemas y canciones para el mal de amores Volumen1
“If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.”
“If e'er I win a parting token,
'Tis something that has lost its power--
A chain that has been used and broken,
A ruin'd glove, a faded flower;
Something that makes my pleasure less,
Something that means--forgetfulness.”
“If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.”
“If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”
“If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us”
“If each and one of us understands the essence of human values, we will be able to sustain our civilization by living in tranquility and embrace the opportunities that each of us can contribute to our society.”
“If each day falls
inside each night,
there exists a well
where clarity is imprisoned.
We need to sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.”
Source: The sea and the bells
“If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays!”
“If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.”
“If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.”
Source: Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow
“If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”
Source: In Our Town
“If each Monday morning, you make a choice to move into the new work week with renewed commitment and passion, you can change all areas of your life. You can truly change your Mondays and change your life.”
“If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.”
Source: Búsqueda Del Presente
“If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.”
Source: The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World
“If each of us could help one orphan to build his/her capacity, and academic background rather than giving them money or food, then no family will sufferer without guardian.”
“If each of us doesn't light his own candle and shine from his whole heart, then it doesn't benefit anyone at all! Then the whole world will remain dark.”
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”
“If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.”
“If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."”
“If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.”
“If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.”
“If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.”
Source: On Dialogue
“If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.”
“If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.”
“If each one of us starts thinking, learning, and understanding more about water and the fact that we are water-based ourselves, then we can start to love, thank, and respect water in our daily lives.”
“If each person attains inner peace through meditation and develops love for all, it will not be long before peace prevails on our planet.”
Source: Inner and Outer Peace through Meditation
“If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.”
“If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?”
“If each piece is approached as our life's defining work, we revise and overwrite endlessly, aiming for the unrealistic ideal of perfection.”
Source: The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
“If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence, the productivity and the wages of labor are less than they otherwise would be.”
“If earnings are to be spent on sex, what's wrong in earning from the sex.
(The protagonist, Manav when blinded by kaam)”
Source: Almighty's Embryo
“If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.”
“If Earth had been hit by plague, by fire, by war, by radiation, sterility, a thousand things, you name it, I'd still stand by her; I love her; I would fight every inch of the way there because my whole life is knit to her. And she'd need mourners. To die on a dying Earth- I'd live, if only to weep.”
Source: We Who Are About To...
“If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species.”
“If Earth is your mother, nature is your brother and humanity is your sister.”
“If Eastlake High School were the universe, I would be one of the moons circling Planet Emma, constantly hidden by her shadow, and glad to be there. Nash Hudson would be one of the stars: too bright to look at, too hot to touch and at the center of his own solar system.”
Source: My Soul to Take
“If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.”
“If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.”
“If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?”
Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity
“If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.”
Source: The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future
“If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.”