I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If everything were permanent, singular, or independent, nothing would change.”
Source: Joyful Wisdom
“If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.”
“If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.”
“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.”
“If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.”
“If everything you say gets laughed at...then you become afraid of everyone... and are no longer able to speak... even knowing all that does is bother everyone... Your heart.......shuts down... And your words die.”
“If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.”
“If everything you wanted was possible in one shot, you would never get a chance to cherish the real victory filled with your relentless perseverance and unbreakable commitment.”
“If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.”
“If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself?”
Source: Remalna's Children
“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”
“If evil exists its to be found in our fears.”
Source: Adultery
“If evil gets a parade, silence is the marching band.”
“If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his.”
Source: Black Beast
“If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.”
“If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.”
Source: Thoughts
“If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! ‘Eyes’ - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out!”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.”
Source: White Oleander
“If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
It is in the close similarity between good and evil, right and wrong, that the danger lies.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.”
“If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range.”
“If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2
“If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.”
“If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?”
Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
“If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.”
“If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.”
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
“If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.”
“If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.”
“If evolution wins, Christianity goes!”
“If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?”
“If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!”
“If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.”
“If exercise was sold in the pill form, it would be the number pill sold throughout the world because the benefits are endless.”
Source: Fixing My Fattening Life: Christian Weight Loss Success Story of Healing from Food Addiction | The Proven Weight Loss Bible Study Guide | Detox Your Mind & Body With A Healthy Plan of Action
“If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it.”
Source: Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
“If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuses behind us, no justification before us. We are alone with no excuses.
This is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet in other respects is free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“If expectations aren’t clear, excuses are—make them unmistakable and watch execution follow.”
“If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.”
“If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some people. Parricide - the sacrifice of children - robbery - usurpation - cruelty - intolerance - prostitution, have all in their turn been licensed actions, and have been deemed laudable and meritorious deeds with some nations of the earth. Above all, Religion has consecrated the most unreasonable, the most revolting customs.”
“If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.”
“If experience is so great, why are so many old people so stupid and clueless? What they lack is intelligence, not experience. If experience is so great, why do politicians never learn anything from history? So much for experience! Isn’t it time for reason?”
Source: Transcendental Mathematics
“If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.”
Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
“If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.”
“If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION
“If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.”
“If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.”
“If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?”
“If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.”
“If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.”
Source: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs