I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.”
“If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.”
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
“If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.”
“If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.”
“If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“If Light can develop in us, we will be able to avoid 90% of the evils that are happening now.”
“if light could dream, it would dream of love, illuminating the soul of essence”
“If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.”
“If light is love, than fear is its shadow”
“If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.”
“If light is the first love of life, is not love a light to the heart?”
Source: Eugenie Grandet
“If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.”
“If light reveals not what you seek,
In darkness what can you peek?”
“If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.”
“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”
“If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.”
“If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat.”
“If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!”
“If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?”
“If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?”
Source: Enough's Enough: And Other Rules of Life
“If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.”
“If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.”
“If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?”
“If lips were made of chocolate, I would kiss everyone that I know.”
“If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.”
“If listening was truly a lifesaving measure, then night shift was a prime time for saving lives. The cover of darkness provided safe cover for the truth to emerge. Confessions, words that people didn't even know resided in them, flew like startled bats into the night. People confessed to stealing things, to hurting people, to loving some and hating others.”
“If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.”
“If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.”
“If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.”
“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”
“If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.”
“If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.”
Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.”
Source: 十個詞彙裡的中國
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different manner from the way they play with theirs. The result is, a few games out of a toy department of possibilities are universally and endlessly repeated. If you don't play some people's game, they say that you have "lost your marbles," not recognizing that, while Chinese checkers is indeed a fine pastime, a person may also play dominoes, chess, strip poker, tiddlywinks, drop-the-soap or Russian roulette with his brain.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.”
“If little faults proceeding on distemper
Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
Appear before us?”
Source: King Henry V
“If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populations of little fish are being harvested to make catfood!? This nonsense has to stop. Feed a fish a cat a day!”
“If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.”
“If little kids could play more, you´d have better engineers, better managers and more inspiration in the workplace.If you deny a toddler the chance to play and then put him in a preschool where he is always competing and being measured, you get fear and that leads to an unwillingness to take risks. You end up with boring adults.”
“If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“If "live and let live" is not the core philosophy of your religion, then, at the core level you'll live and die imprisoned.”
“If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.”
“If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.”
“If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.”
Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
“If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.”
“If Livingstone don't keep their discipline the inevitable could happen.”
“If logic and reason, the hard, cold products of the mind, can be relied upon to deliver justice or produce the truth, how is it that these brain-heavy judges rarely agree? Five-to-four decisions are the rule, not the exception. Nearly half of the court must be unjust and wrong nearly half of the time. Each decision, whether the majority or minority, exudes logic and reason like the obfuscating ink from a jellyfish, and in language as opaque. The minority could have as easily become the decision of the court. At once we realize that logic, no matter how pretty and neat, that reason, no matter how seemingly profound and deep, does not necessarily produce truth, much less justice. Logic and reason often become but tools used by those in power to deliver their load of injustice to the people. And ultimate truth, if, indeed, it exists, is rarely recognizable in the endless rows of long words that crowd page after page of most judicial regurgitations.”
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day