I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.”
“If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.”
“If eyes are the window to the soul, then dreams are the back door to the heart.”
Source: The Infernal Games
“If eyes are the windows to a person's soul, his shutters are locked tight.”
Source: Replay: White
“If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”
“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”
Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
“If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family.”
“If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.”
“If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.”
“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”
Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.”
“If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.”
Source: The art of landscape painting
“If factory farming for meat of cats, dogs, squirrels, swans and guinea pigs began in western Europe, you can be sure some of the bacon and sausage gorging public would be out protesting. Although other cultures regularly eat some or all of these animals, everybody draws the line somewhere. Most would balk at the idea of eating dolphin, gorilla, orangutan or human flesh, but really the differences between the species are minimal and whether we are a rabbit, horse, chimpanzee or human, we all have an innate desire to live our lives freely and avoid violation.”
Source: Destination Eden - Eden Fruitarianism Explained
“If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.”
“If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.”
“If "facts" convinced people of things, no one would have sex”
“If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.”
“If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.”
“If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.”
Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
“If failing is the worst possible outcome, I welcome that over not trying at all.”
Source: If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
“If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.”
“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”
Source: Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life
“If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.”
“If failure is not an option, then neither is success.”
“If failure is supposed to be a stepping stone to success, then I'd like to have a serious chat with the fellow who set down those stones.”
“If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.”
“If fairy-story as a kind is worth reading at all it is worthy to be written for and read by adults. They will, of course, put more in and get more out than children can. Then, as a branch of a genuine art, children may hope to get fairy-stories fit for them to read and yet within their measure; as they may hope to get suitable introductions to poetry, history, and the sciences. Though it may be better for them to read some things, especially fairy-stories, that are beyond their measure rather than short of it. Their books like their clothes should allow for growth, and their books at any rate should encourage it.”
Source: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
“If faith can move mountains, love can move the world.”
“If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“If faith fails, prayer perishes.”
“If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.”
“If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.”
“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
“If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.”
“If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.”
“If faith is your motivation, share that.”
“If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?”
Source: Poetical works
“If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.”
“If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.”
“If faith without works is dead, then in the same vein, compassion without action is dead, and concern without voice is also dead.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?”
Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.”
“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long.”
“If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.”
Source: Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose
“If falling in love is so beautiful. I would want to fall every day! Need you to catch me in your arms and love me like you do!”
“If falling means keeping you alive, then every world will incinerate under my hands.”
Source: Lunora: A Book of Sand
“If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.”