I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun, let alone as the author of my fate?”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“If half the population gave up their luxuries, the entire population will be rid of disparities.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.”
“If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.”
“If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.”
“If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.”
“If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.”
“If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“If handed an actual basketball, I would instantly cry. For me, doing sports was like meeting the Disney characters at Disney World. On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.”
“If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.”
“If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices
“If happiness is a destination unique to each person, then why are we told to follow exactly the same map?”
Source: Becoming Flawesome: The Key to Living an Imperfectly Authentic Life
“If happiness is a hardwired obsession in our brains, one should first and foremost learn to foster an upright quest for unvarnished wellbeing and above all not give in to vain temptations of displaying counterfeit contentment and fake smiling. (Digging for white gold »)”
“If happiness is a skill, then sadness is, too. Perhaps through all those years at school, or perhaps through other terrors, we are taught to ignore sadness, to stuff it down into our satchels and pretend it isn’t there. As adults, we often have to learn to hear the clarity of its call. That is wintering. It is the active acceptance of sadness. It is the practice of allowing ourselves to feel it as a need. It is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”
Source: Happiness
“If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“If happiness is coming with conditions, it's not happiness!”
Source: Quantraz
“If happiness is one of your goals, you must believe by living you have something to gain”
Source: The Soulmatcher
“If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.”
“If happiness required me to ignore my thoughts and questions, then I hoped to never be happy.”
Source: The UnPeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.”
Source: Happiness
“If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.”
“If happiness were a transmissible infection, we would all like to be infected with it.”
“If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.”
Source: A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life
“If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.”
Source: Aristotle: Selections
“If happy comes along - that weird unbearable delight that's actually happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.”
“If happy ever after did exist I would still be holding u like this”
“If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.”
Source: The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay. With Illustrations by J. Gilbert
“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material
“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?”
“If hard work is done peacefully then the personality of a human being becomes more impressive.”
Source: Productivity Promoter
“IF HARD WORK IS LEAD TO THE SUCCESS, THEN DONKEY'S ARE PROBABLY THE KING OF THE JUNGLE”
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”
“If hard work is the source of happiness, then we can conclude that the main job of procrastination is to delay that happiness for excuses to kill.”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.”
“If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.”
“If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.”
“If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.”
“If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet”
“If Harry Potter's so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldnt need a broomstick to cling onto.”
“If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.”
“If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.”
“If hate motivates your life, you'll never know the meaning of true love”
“If haters hadn't made me angry and made me practice, I wouldn't have gotten this good.”
“If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.”
“If hatred can be washed from all the hearts of mankind, then all oceans will surely dry up.”
“If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some of them will join in the kill, the others will discreetly pretend to know nothing, hear nothing, so you can go right on seeing them and talking to them. That second category, discreet and tactful, those are your friends. 'Friends' in the modern sense of the term. Listen, Jean-Marc, I've known that forever.”