I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.”
Source: Infinity: Chronicles of Nick
“If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?”
“If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.”
“If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?”
“If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.”
Source: War Horse
“If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out”
Source: Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition
“If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?”
“If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.”
“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”
“If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible... it will be done.”
“If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.”
“If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere.”
“If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.”
“If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!”
“If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.”
Source: My Own Story: Top Biography
“If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.”
“If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.”
“If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.”
“If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it.”
Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy
“If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.”
“If it is something you enjoy then it is lucrative in a way that means more than coin.”
Source: Fall of Ruin and Wrath
“If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!”
“If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)”
“If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.”
Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.”
“If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.”
“If it is the case that our activities depend on how we ourselves see them, what we believe about them, then if we have crazy, fuzzy ideas about teaching, we will be likely to do crazy and fuzzy things in its name.”
“If it is the case that we are merely slaves to the natural processes computing our advanced fight and flight responses, then we are never truly thinking, which means that logic and reason - the things we hold so dear - do not exist either.”
Source: From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
“If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?”
“If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.”
“If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.”
“If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.”
“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”
Source: Works
“If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.”
Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
“If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.”
Source: Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”
Source: The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition
“If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.”
“If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.”
Source: Philosophical Essays
“If it is to BE today, it's totally UP TO me NOW. Time for SWIFT Actions, with Fierce Focus, on CLEAR Goals. Time for a Mindset Reset?”
“If it is to give wings to the imagination, count on me”
Source: Yggdrasil - Profecia do Sangue
“If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.”
Source: The Complete Art of War
“If it is too good to be free, it comes with a hidden price.”
“If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.”
“If it is too loud then it is empty!”
“If it is true about laughter, it is true about life”
Source: The Simple Book of Infinity
“If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.”