I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.”
“If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.”
Source: Answers to Prayer
“If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.”
“If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.”
“If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.”
Source: Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
“If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!”
“If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.”
“If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.”
“If honeydew melons disappeared from the planet, would anyone even notice? We would just continue to eat prosciutto like God intended us to.”
“If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.”
Source: The Library of Babel
“If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.”
“If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey.”
“If honor was the reason quoted for bloodshed, conflict could be avoided by stripping it away entirely.”
Source: The Shadow of Kyoshi
“If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.”
“If hope and optimism could be measured in facial expressions, the smiles and sparkling eyes in the room that day would have guaranteed our success”
Source: Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
“If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated.”
“If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.”
“If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.”
“If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.”
“If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.”
“If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.”
“If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.”
Source: House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition
“If hot red is for anger and rage, pink is the color of a soft burning – hot enough to light up the dark corners of sadness and grief, but cool enough to be tender, innocent, open.”
Source: American Street
“If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”
Source: Literary and historical miscellanies
“If, however, thou hast a suffering friend, then be a resting-place for his suffering; like a hard bed, however, a camp-bed: thus wilt thou serve him best.
And if a friend doeth thee wrong, then say: "I forgive thee what thou hast done unto me; that thou hast done it unto THYSELF, however--how could I forgive that!"
Thus speaketh all great love: it surpasseth even forgiveness and pity.
One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.”
“If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward.”
“If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.”
Source: Wyrms
“If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.”
“If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.”
“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.”
“If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence
“If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.”
“If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, can we live in heaven?”
“If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, where else could they live?”
“If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.”
“If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel
“If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.”
“If human beings recognise their fellow human beings as human beings, there will be harmony.”
“If human beings want to attain an eternal life in an infinite universe, they must aim for the mastery of this universe, there is no other way, and remember, no one will give you a mastery that rules over eternity, unless you attain it with an infinite effort!”
“If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“If human beings weren’t ‘dumbable’ enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals.”
“If human brain is like the world, then positive thinking must be the size of mountain, and negative thinking must be the size of mustard seed and not vice versa.”
Source: The First SIp Of My Morning Coffee
“If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.”
Source: The whale, mighty monarch of the sea
“If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.”
“If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”
Source: 1984
“If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”
Source: 1984
“If human faith and beliefs taught the universal doctrine that everyone should work for second life with a more purposeful Karma; where human could live with the wisdom to learn every human language, adapt to every culture, believe in every God or deity human had adapted, and be able to perceive the world from everyone else revelation…perhaps, only then, human will stop killing, hating or dehumanizing each other and endeavor to prevail for peaceful endings…..”
Source: Honourable Defection
“If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.”
Source: We
“If human hands are permitted to reshape, rewrite, and even transform the tone and style of a work while preserving the author’s name, then the use of AI should be seen in the same light. There is no meaningful difference between AI rewriting a book and a relative or a human editor doing so—what matters is that the ideas and vision remain rooted in the author’s mind.”