I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.”
“If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.”
“If entertainment years were dog years, man, Id be like Gandhi. Id be like 250 years old.”
“If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.”
“If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.”
“If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.”
“If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.”
“If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.”
Source: Christian Uncertainties
“If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.”
“If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.”
“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.”
Source: Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928
“If equality exists, why is there a Michelin star rating? Why do people use brands? Why do they Choose cheerios instead of tasteless oats? Why do they listen to different genres of music? Equality doesn’t exist, competition exists. Competition is where items or aspects of life that need refurbishing get demolished by the thing that’s good. Natural, and unnatural selection at its finest.”
Source: sciVive
“If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.”
“If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.”
Source: House of All Nations
“If Erasmus Desiderius could talk about the current state of affairs, he would say that the secular scientific civilization is governed by the Goddess of stupidity.”
“If Eric had just listened to his heart and not someone else's singing, none of this would have happened.
He had fallen in love with the voiceless red-haired girl. He was just too stupid and obstinate to recognize it. He loved everything about her. Her smile, the way she moved, the way she took delight in everything around her. She was impulsive, unmannered, willing to get dirty, a little strange, and extremely hands-on. And beautiful. So different from all the princesses and ladies his parents had introduced him to.”
Source: Part of Your World
“If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.”
“If Erik existed and lived life in despair,
We wish him to know we are here and we care.”
Source: Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan
“If erotic writing is the objectification of sex, then reading is its subjectification.”
“If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?”
“If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the alliance will no longer exist.”
“If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.”
Source: Powers
“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”
“If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.”
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.”
“If Europe thinks Jews will return to the days where we were forced to mark our products - you can forget it. De-legitimization of parts of Israel by Europe is the new anti-Semitism. The old anti-Semitism led to the destruction of our people in gas chambers. We will not allow the new anti-Semitism to hurt us.”
“If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.”
“If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.”
“If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.”
“If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.”
“If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.”
“If Evangeline ever gets her memories back, she'll never forgive you for this.'
'At least she'll be alive to hate me.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.”
Source: Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk
“If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.”
“If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.”
“If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.”
“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”
“If even for a brief second I could have a sense of God’s faith in me, it would immediately expose my lack of faith in both Him and myself.”
“If (even) God commands oppression and occupation, it’s the God that we must reject not people.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“If even God is referred to by using the number, why don't you think that your birthdate and numerical values of the letters that build your name up are also telling you something?”
Source: A Complete Guide to Practical Numerology
“If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.”
“If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement mass surveillance here. We're not going to do that. That's where all of the data centres, all the service providers in the world will relocate to. And I think that gives us a real chance to see a more liberal than authoritarian future.”
“If even one generation becomes nonsectarian, in thought, in feeling, and in action, all geopolitical conflict will disappear within a century.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.”
“If even one of these unidentified UFOs turns out to be an alien craft, the impact on all aspects of our nation's culture-economic, political, personal-will be limited only by what is learned from an open, serious, objective study of the subject.”
“If even one person in a huge flock can make an effort to seek the truth, the fate of the whole flock may change!”
“If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.”
“If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?”
Source: An American Childhood
“If even the strongest official of a country is as weak as a leaf blowing in the wind before justice, the future of that country will always be victorious and the people of the country will always be safe!”