I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.”
“If Feingold does it, if he wins this race in this year, it will not be as just another Democratic senator. It will not be as a maverick, nor even as an idealist. It will be as a signal that maybe, just maybe, people power can still beat the money power. That senators aren't just extensions of parties and presidents, and that politics can be about something more than Democratic toothpaste versus Republican toothpaste.”
“If felt as though the universe, in her strange and nonsensical way, meant to reach out to me, to remind me of the enthusiasm I once had for the trifling bits of bygone eras, if only I could look beneath the dirt that had accumulated over time.”
Source: The Lost Apothecary
“If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.”
Source: the female eunuch
“If feminism doesn't frighten people with power, it is toothless.”
Source: Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
“If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.”
“If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: No. "No" is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin at "No". Feminists said "No" and we meant it.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.”
“If feminists had continued to talk about love, then we would have needed to speak about the extreme lovelessness that is at the heart of domination. ... patriarchy, like any colonizing system, does not create the context for men and women to love each other ... genuine love between females and males could only emerge in a context where the sexes would come together to challenge and change patriarchal thought.”
Source: Communion: The Female Search for Love
“If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.”
“If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a demographic cloud hangs over China. It may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. ... Its fertility rate is below two and its working-age population will start to decline around 2015.”
“If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.”
Source: Hour Decision
“If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.”
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
“If Fifty Shades is your idea of a good book, you have no idea what a good book is.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.”
“If fighting for justice makes you lose followers, you should celebrate. Such a loss becomes one of your biggest wins in this lifetime.”
“If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.”
Source: Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives
“If fighting for working families is playing the women's card, you know what, deal me in.”
“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.”
“If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.”
“If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.'”
“If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.”
“If financial gain remains our main motive then we can be certain that rich fathers will leave behind poor sons!”
Source: Toward Saving the Honeybee
“If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.”
“If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.”
“If fire is giving you warmth, it doesn't mean that you should sit inside it. You can enjoy things as long as you keep an optimum distance from them.”
“If fire is like a coin then each philosopher carries a coin. And currency moves.”
“If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.”
“If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.”
“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.”
“If fitness came in a bottle,everyone would have a great body. Skip the quick fixes;hard work is what ensures lasting results!”
“If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.”
“If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.”
Source: Rumo: And His Miraculous Adventures
“If flirting or the possibility of romance were more frightening to Claire than being caged with a convict, there was something seriously wrong with her.”
Source: Threads of Deception: A Suddenly French Mystery
“If flowers can clean the air,
and bacteria can clean the water,
and ants can clean the land,
we too can clean our world.
Land is our gift.
Water is our blessing.
Air is our fortune.
Life is our reward.”
“If flowers, fragrance not; endorse that itself as synthetic and unnatural.”
“If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.”
“If flurries be the food of quests, snow on.”
“If Flynn hadn't known his older brother for the addicted, lying sack of shit he was, he might have believed the pain he saw in that gaze, might have trusted that Connor had finally seen the error of his ways and was going to change his life and step out of their father's shadow. But Connor usually only had an epiphany if it got him laid, increased his bank balance, or severely pissed off Rupert.”
Source: Red Moon
“If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all that, I didn't consciously write the book with a particular moral intent. I took what I experienced and processed it through the sausage factory of fiction. It's up to readers to interpret what's on the page - as is the case with any novel.”
“If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.”
“If folks do the same thing over and over and over again, and refuse to take accountability for that, and don't want to learn, they can actually be banned from a particular space.
We do have to figure out the other side of that. Which is, somebody does take accountability, and does what people asked them to do. When are they allowed to rejoin community in good standing? That is something we have yet to figure out how to do in consistent fashion. Because you're never gonna be able to say somebody "You can never come back to society," and expect those people to join accountability processes.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories”
“If following Jesus Christ doesn't cost you anything, it's because you've bought into 'American Christianity.'”
“If folly disappeared, wit would starve.”
“If folly were griefe every house would weepe.
[If folly were grief, every house would weep.]”