I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If if there is anything I’ve learned from the study of trust it's that when we’re scared, we isolate ourselves. There are a lot of scared people in this country. And we absolutely must respond with kindness. It's time for courageous vulnerability. It’s time for love, joy and compassion.
We just need conditions for trust and vulnerability to thrive.”
“If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas, I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.”
Source: Dark Places
“If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.”
“If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood is that many of the vaunted pain-killing drugs conceal the pain without correcting the underlying condition. They deaden the mechanism in the body that alerts the brain to the fact that something may be wrong. The body can pay a high price for suppression of pain without regard to its basic cause.”
Source: Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
“If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.”
“If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...”
“If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...”
“If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?”
“If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?”
“If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?”
“If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.”
Source: Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs
“If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister”
“If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.”
“If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules
“If ignorant people criticize you and attack you, then you can be sure that your path is the right path!”
“If ignore the study of Scriptures, you will stumble in sin.”
“If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”
Source: An Exposition of the Book of Psalms: With Practical Remarks and Observations
“If illness' end be health regained then I
Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.”
Source: Verse
“If Im brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.”
“If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.”
“If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.”
“If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.”
“If Im healthy, that comes across on camera.”
“If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?”
“If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you”
Source: Trylle: The Complete Trilogy
“If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.”
“If imaginary beings die an imaginary death they will be dead nonetheless. You think that you can create a history of what has been. Present artifacts. A clutch of letters. A sachet in a dressingtable drawer. But that's not what's at the heart of the tale. The problem is that what drives the tale will not survive the tale. As the room dims and the sound of voices fades you understand that the world and all in it will soon cease to be. You believe that it will begin again. You point to other lives. But their world was never yours.”
Source: The Passenger
“If imagination is the rocket, then books are the rocket fuel. They supercharge the mind and help it see beyond what it can conceive on its own.”
Source: Into the Uncut Grass
“If imagination is what enables us to conceive of and enjoy stories other than our own, and if empathy is the act of taking other people’s stories seriously, certainty deadens or destroys both qualities. When we are caught up in our own convictions, other people’s stories—which is to say, other people—cease to matter to us.”
Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode.”
“If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
Punk, don't flatter me.”
“If immigrants ain't real Americans,
Neither is our revered Lady Liberty.
She too came from a distant land,
Yet today she is the American epitome...
Though I belong to the whole wide world,
Land of Lady Liberty is my home country.
A nation's character isn't defined by rigidity,
It is defined by a hearty unity in diversity.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.”
“If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.”
“If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done sloppily. It betrays the story. It can slow down the energy of the story you're telling.”
“If improving conditions in the workplace for women had been a central agenda for feminist movement in conjunction with efforts to obtain better paying jobs for women and finding jobs for unemployed women of all classes, feminism would have been seen as a movement addressing the concerns of all women.”
Source: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
“If impulse can be overcome, then courage will lose its beauty.”
“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”
“If, in 1688, you had insisted that the concept of a “constitutional monarchy” was a contradiction in terms, that “constitutional” simply meant “symbolic” and the upshot of the whole scheme would simply be a return to the rule of Parliament, you were a Jacobite. Plain and simple.
And you were also dead wrong—for about two centuries. Most of the royal powers died with George III, but even Queen Victoria exercised a surprising amount of authority over the operations of “her” government. No longer.”
Source: An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
“If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.”
“If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?”
“If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."”
“If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.”
Source: Aldo Leopold's Southwest
“If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.”
“If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.”
Source: The Jane Addams Reader
“If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.”
“If in a tense or nervous situation, take a moment to center and ground yourself and make a thoughtful decision. Remember that nothing is as important as it first seems.”
“If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.”
Source: The German Ideology
“If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler