I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.”
“If leadership impacts don't Improve the human condition, beyond salary, of the company's staff...then it's GREEDERSHIP.”
“If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.”
“If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.”
Source: Awakening the Leader Within: A Story of Transformation
“If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.”
Source: 44 Days of Leadership
“If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.”
“If leadership is, fundamentally, about serving others, then any one person should be able to move between being a "leader" and a "follower."”
“If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.”
“If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goosebumps and sing songs together, there's not much value in that. But if leading worship is a means to an end, that we leave this place as a different kind of people, as part of a new humanity that God wants to create... then that matters.”
“If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.”
Source: The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition
“If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player”
“If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders from anyone, turned out to be the most willing and cooperative frame-ee in the history of mankind!! Because the evidence of his guilt is so monumental, that he could have just as well gone around with a large sign on his back declaring in bold letters 'I Just Murdered President John F. Kennedy'!!!”
“If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!”
“If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.”
“If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.”
Source: Childbirth Without Fear
“If left to their own devices a child will achieve.”
“If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.”
“If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.”
“If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.”
“If Leoni was sunshine walking, Adrik was a doleful storm cloud too put-upon to actually rain.”
Source: King of Scars
“If lesbians were purple, none would be admitted to respected places. But if all lesbians suddenly turned purple today, society would be surprised at the number of purple people in high places.”
Source: Sappho was a right-on woman: a liberated view of lesbianism
“If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.”
“If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.”
“If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.”
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
“If letting a particularly potent person inside you could alter you irrevocably just to have seen or felt it, in which case how does one know when or how to refuse, how to recover.”
“If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.”
“If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.”
Source: Fangirl
“If Liana wanted to fight over Harlow, she was going to lose. Not that I liked him that way. That was to say, I wasn't sure how I felt about Harlow, but it damned sure wasn't up to her to tell me.”
Source: Troll Or Park
“If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.”
“If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.”
Source: Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
“If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.”
“If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.”
“If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.”
“If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.”
“If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.”
“If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.”
“If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many many very intelligent people have applied themselves to crafting an agenda that people could grab ahold of. But the problem of course is that libertarianism isn't political. It is kind of anti-political. It wants to take a lot of things out of the political arena.”
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
Source: Politics
“If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.”
“If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.”
“If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.”
Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)
“If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.”
“If LIBOR is Gregorian calendar; RFR is the new regional calendar of each country.”
Source: LIBOR Plan B
“If LIBOR is in question; RFR is the answer.”
Source: LIBOR Plan B
“If librarians love their libraries more than their kids, prosperities will be moving up in that society.”
“If lies are more comforting to you than facts, you need to get out of your comfort zone.”