I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
“If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.”
“If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.”
“If integrity is considered a virtue, it may be because most people lack integrity. Also, as only a few succeed in their pursuits, some may link failure with a lack of integrity. But this is not fully true. When you reason it out, you might conclude that honest people are more likely to fail and the dishonest rise faster.”
Source: The Secret Red Book of Leadership
“If integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is watching, and there is never a private moment, integrity becomes impossible. What are we left with?”
“If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.”
“If intellect and wisdom are lost in the administration of a country, generation after generation will remain confused and subjugated.”
“If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand.”
Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
“If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?”
“If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.”
“If intelligence is the ability to adapt, then artificial intelligence challenges us to redefine the very essence of what it means to think, to create, and to understand." - Jop Helm”
“If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.”
“If intelligent design was true the human body would make its own food and alcohol would kill fat cells instead of brain cells.”
“If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?”
Source: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
“IF INTERNAL GROWTH WILL BE THERE, EXTERNAL GROWTH WILL DEFINITELY COME.”
“If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.”
“If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.”
“If intimidation is your game plan, I hope you have a better one.”
“If invested time reaps no return, dump his ass and invest elsewhere.”
“If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.”
“If investing is taught early, the knowledge can break different barriers and end poverty which has endured for generations”
Source: Time Value of Money: Timing Income
“If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.”
“If investors do not know or never attempt to know the fair value, they can pay any price. More often, the price they pay is far greater than the actual value.”
“If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?”
“If Iowa is the 'heart' land, what part of the human body is Los Angeles?”
“If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.”
“If Iran cheats, the world will know it.”
“If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.”
“If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.”
“If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.”
“If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.”
“If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.”
“If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.”
“If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein.”
“If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.”
“If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.”
“If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.”
Source: Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
“If Iron Man trusted AI to fly his suit, why not let AI drive your car? – AIinCars”
“If irrational exuberance can bring about financial calamity, then it stands to reason that rational adherence to a set of rules can save our financial lives. It’s not a complex idea, but it’s one that can have profound implications for the personal and financial wellbeing of our families and even our nations. And it all begins with a focus on-you guessed it-ourselves.”
Source: Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management
“If is a custom,
More honor'd in the breach than the observance.”
Source: The Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of Shakspeare : Carefully Revised, with Introductory and Explanatory Notes, and a Memoir of the Author : Prepared Expressly for the Use of Classes, and the Family Reading Circle
“If is a very big preposition.”
“IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.”
“If, is a word full of excuses”
“If is see darkness in Christians, I bring light to them.”
“If Isabella loved Sherry, I would try my best not to be selfish, but she doesn't love him, and if she is encouraging him now to follow her about in this odious way, it is just because Severn did "not" come up to scratch, whatever she may have told Sherry! And I know all the gentlemen who would like to marry Isabella, and Sherry is by far the most eligible, now that Severn is out of the running- or he would be, if I did not exist- and he shall "not" be sacrificed to Isabella's horrid ambition!'
Lady Saltash's eyes narrowed in amusement. 'Now you are beginning to talk like a sensible woman!”
Source: Friday's Child
“If Isabelle Reagan can take a guy like me and turn him into someone worthy of respect then it's mind blowing to think what she can do for the rest of the world. What we could do for it together. We might be able to change it.”
Source: Count on Me
“If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity”