I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If one cares about the earth—if one respects nature—it is better to consume vegetables, fruits, nuts, and grains. If you care about the planet and wish to adopt an earth-friendly lifestyle, it is advisable to focus only secondarily on the car that you drive, or recycling, or turning off lights and turning down heat, and primarily on what you buy at the grocery store. What we eat has a much greater impact on the environment.”
Source: Animals and World Religions
“If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.”
Source: Chronicles of the Black Company
“If one chooses to call tests that require the mastery of abstractions culturally biased, because some cultures put more emphasis on abstractions than others, that raises fundamental questions about what the tests are for. In a world where the ability to master abstractions is fundamental to mathematics, science and other endeavors, the measurement of that ability is not an arbitrary bias. A culture-free test might be appropriate in a culture-free society—but there are no such societies.”
Source: Intellectuals and Society
“If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts.”
“If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.”
“If one comes to the sense that they have arrived, they no longer feel the need to submit themselves to the process of learning and growing. This is a dangerous mindset to carry. The day that we stop learning is the day we stop living.”
“If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.”
“If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site.”
“If one completes the journey to one's heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.”
“If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.”
“If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.”
“If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.”
“If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion”
“if one consults reason alone, one cannot assent to the articles of our faith" it was full of mysteries; "we are fools to try to explain them." This makes preaching Christianity not only a hard task but also dangerous. "Had I know, I should never have been a preacher.”
Source: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
“If one could always predict the future, this person would soon be the saddest being on earth, for it cannot be surprised nor could it stop thinking of making a difference.”
“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.”
“If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.”
“If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.”
Source: Wicked
“If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.”
“If one could have any girl one wanted at the drop of a hat, would one want one?”
Source: Tabou: Sylvie
“if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.”
Source: A Book of Memories
“If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.”
Source: The Runaway Queen
“If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!”
“If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?”
Source: O'Keeffe on Paper
“If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”
“If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder—red-blooded murder—with trimmings, of course.”
Source: The A.B.C. Murders
“If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.”
“If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.”
Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel
“If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.”
“If one could speak two languages well and was raised on tea and baguettes for breakfast,in places where the most mundane daily business on the street is conducted in four languages, where horse carts park at cyber cafes, where would one go? Where could one go? Why,with a smile and a handshake, very far, indeed!”
“If one day an advanced alien civilization visits Earth and wants to give us scientific knowledge that will leap us forward in time, I hope they don't ask the question ‘Do they deserve it?’ because their answer will be no!”
“If one day far in the future, mankind is truly able to fly to the moon, we will have Georges Melies and the movies to thank for helping us understand that if our dreams are big enough, anything is possible.”
“If one day I become financially secure, so that I can freely write and publish, I know I'll miss this precarious life in which I hardly write and don't publish at all. I'll miss it not only because it will be a life, however mediocre, that I'll never have again, but also because every sort of life has a special quality and particular pleasure, and when we take up another life, even a better one, that particular pleasure isn't as good, that special quality is less special, until they fade away, and there's something missing.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”
“If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.”
“If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!”
“If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.”
“If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal”
“If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.”
“If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.”
“If one day I was taken away...would you wait for me to come back?"
Concerned moved across his face. "Where are you going?"
"Just tell me, please. I need to know, without telling you anything else."
"No."
I swallowed and blinked back tears.
"I'd go after you," he said.”
Source: Invisible Touch
“If one day she'll forgot the things about me, then I wish we haven't had this chance to know each other.”
“If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.”
“If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.”
“If one day we'll die, why hurry to the grave?”
“If one day, when we encounter aliens and they ask us what is one of the five most important characteristics of human beings, our answer will be this: We don't have a feature like leaving things without understanding! We have to understand everything, nothing should remain unknown in the darkness!”
“If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world”
“If one day you see a witch riding a flying broomstick, it's merely an illusion created in your mind by the culture you live in. And if one day you see a helping hand reaching out from the heavens, thinking a white-bearded being has heard your prayers and rushed to your aid, that too is just a cultural illusion!”