I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.”
“If have nothing but life, I have everything.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If have the choice, to play or not play, I would rather be in there, ... But I appreciate Willie calling me in and being concerned.”
“If have the gift of prophesy, all wisdom and knowledge and have no love, I have failed to manifest my true soul.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?”
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
Source: All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.”
“If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?”
Source: She Is Me
“If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.”
Source: Silent Spring
“If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.”
“If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.”
“If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.”
“If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney`s performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.”
“If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.”
“If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.”
“If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat otherswith cruelty...you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through educationthen I'll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.”
“If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.”
“If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.”
“If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.”
“If he ACT blind; Well, I guess he blind.
Don't be that FOOL. Anyways have an open mind around you, never let yourself to believe something is real until you SEE THE TRUTH”
“If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.”
“If he [Arthur, number thirteen] had to die, he decided he would die singing. And doing what he knew now was his destiny: to sing to the lonely comfort the frightened, and awaken the love in sleeping hearts”
Source: The Wonderling
“If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.”
“If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.”
Source: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [and The Bottle Imp]
“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”
Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Classic Unabridged Edition): Psychological thriller by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow and A Child's Garden of Verses
“If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.”
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
“If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.”
“If he bleeds to death on the pavilion floor, will he truly have died? Or will the web-work of mosquito curtains draw up into the heavens, amid thunderous applause, and his comrades lift him by the arms? Will the sick, lame, and the dying walk again, missing limbs restored? Will the dead enter from the wings to take a bow?”
Source: Nostalgia
“If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings’ making, and I had come out stronger.”
“If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.”
Source: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“If he can't get to the clock, any idea how we deal with this lot?"
"With great care," Donegan suggested.
"How about we run off shout and they follow?" Said Gracious. "Then, just when they think they've caught us they fall into our trap."
"OK," said Tanith. "And that trap would be?"
"A big hole we'd dug earlier and covered with branches.'
Tanith frowned. "I thought you were meant to be smart."
Gracious frowned back at her. "Who told you that?"
"Gracious is book smart," said Donegan. "He leaves the real world thinking to people like you and me and small dogs that he meets."
"The innocent are often the wisest.”
Source: Last Stand of Dead Men
“If he can’t handle it, then you aren’t very good friends, are you?”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.”
Source: 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage
“IF HE CAN'T SEE WHERE HE IS, THEN HE CAN'T TALK ABOUT WHERE HE IS”
“If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?”
“If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.”
“if he cares,
he will flay;
if he loves,
he will slay you”
Source: Delphi
“If he checks your phone bills or shopping receipts, something isn't right. Controlling your partner in any way is unhealthy. I've been with my girlfriend for five years and it's important to me that she feels relaxed and free. I hate to see someone made to feel unsafe and helpless - particularly women as men are physically stronger.”
“If he chose to hire a lawyer to defend himself, whatever money he had would be confiscated as “ill-gotten gains.” Deprived of funds for defense, he’d be held until he pleaded guilty or a public defender went through the motions of a defense and a jury of white people convicted him. The evidence would be his lack of character and failure to participate in his own prosecution, with a few bits of physical evidence manufactured by the prosecuting cops. All the blanks would be filled in with lies.”
Source: An Evil Trade
“If he closed his eyes he could dwell in the circuit of air that had once held her, he could hold his breath and be inside her again, within the close and burning borders of her- she stood here, washed her hair in this sink, wrote upon this wall, ate roasted chicken at this table. There was no place he could enter where she had not also been, her echoes hanging in the air like pages hung to dry. No place that did not suppurate in her absence, which was not ringed with the light of her old selves, like film burned with a cigarette.”
Source: Palimpsest
“If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)”
“If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.”
“If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“If he could blush through his fur, he would have.”
Source: Down in the Valley
“If he could bottle her strength
and vitality, he would. He would take everything that
was Tessa and lock it into a corner of his heart, to take
out when the emptiness got too overwhelming.”
Source: Ashes and Wine
“If he could do what he did -- and I'll show you what he did -- who else is doing what in the hospitals and laboratories that we may one day look to for our lives?”
Source: The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
“If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!”
“If he could have it his way, nobody would ever say anything again. The entire world would go silent. Even the clocks wouldn’t tick. All that mattered would be the beating of hearts, the widening and narrowing of pupils, the whirling of ties and loose strands of hair in the wind---nothing voluntary, nothing false.”
Source: Homesick for Another World