I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is dead. From a b-52, napalm bombing, search and destroy mission, air attack, Tet offensive, My Lai massacre, failed escape, I would not scream but make of my body a net, a tarp, stretched taut across the sky, the sea, over every village and hamlet. Prepared to catch everything from the sky, shade everything on the ground, rain water and receive you, war, with arms outstretched.”
“If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.”
“If one movement of mercy is in hoping for its own diminishment, another must be toward its own expansion. The way of charity that the child calls us to--that you call me to--is a way that constantly magnifies, not because your needs multiply but because you call me to be open to the needs of others.”
Source: Motherhood: A Confession
“If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.”
Source: Poetical works
“If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.”
“If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.”
“If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.”
“If one must fall into love, to give up and dive headfirst, knowing that everything can change in a heartbeat - there must be an upside.”
Source: The Upside of Falling Down
“If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.”
“If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.”
“If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.”
“If one never learns the art of living, you can't have silence, love, joy, truth, freedom, beauty and grace in life. It all depends on how you live. It all depends on how you approach life.
One comes into life with a great potential, but very few people develop that potential. The potential remains unused.
The seeker of truth have to become committed, dynamic and always move into the unknown. He needs to be always reaching for the stars. And then life becomes filled with joy and fragrance.
It is that fragrance that has been called, God, nirvana, and enlightenment. It is life that blossoms.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“If one night you ask for my permission to release you so you will be forever free from me, know that I’ll also have the freedom to leave you and never come back.” - Damian Blackwood, Mrs. Blackwood”
Source: Mrs. Blackwood
“If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.”
“If one notices the carefully crafted ambiguates in Council documents that served as footholds for a surprising variety of novelties. It becomes apparent that each ambiguity tends to dissolve a doctrine unique to Catholicism by favoring an interpretive designed either to attract or flatter non-believers. This recurring feature makes Vatican II unique among all Ecumenical Councils in the 2,000 year history of the Church. Consequently, Vatican II may properly be called an "occult" Council, in the sense that the documents contained "secret knowledge" implanted by initiates, that would be exploited after the Council.
It is even possible that the un-Catholic conciliar novelties are part of the apostasy in the Church that almost certainly is mentioned in the Third Secret.”
Source: Fatima in Twilight
“If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.”
Source: Sculpture inside and out
“If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.”
“If one of my daughters happened to be [gay], of course I would love them and I would accept them. That's what we're taught when we have strong faith.”
“If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.”
“If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.”
“If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.”
“If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.”
“If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.”
“If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.”
“If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.”
“If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.”
“If one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence came back today, he would not be surprised about what Americans were saying and believing and articulating in their public statements. It would all sound rather familiar.”
“If one of the members leaves the team, I will not stay in TVXQ anymore.”
“If one of the miseries of being human is that happiness can be snatched away at any moment, one of the joys is that it may be restored equally unexpectedly.”
“If one of the most interesting places to be is your inner world, you will never be bored when you are alone.”
“If one of the species you’re using in your experiment fails every test you give it, the problem may be you, the researcher, not the animal. You may have failed to understand what is relevant to the way a bird sees the world.”
Source: The Genius of Birds
“If one of the things you believe in,
Is that this world's an ugly place,
You must have never gone outside at,
And stared up into space,
You haven't felt the way the air changes,
In the minutes before it rains,
Or watched the world pass by below,
Out the window of a plane,
You've never been awake so early,
That you see the moment the sun starts to rise,
And you've never lain with your back on the grass,
And made shapes with the clouds in the sky,
But maybe if you've done all this,
But still don't believe it's not true,
It's because you can't see all the beauty,
That I see when I look at you" ~e.h.”
Source: Reverie
“If one of them asked for the sun, he'd better figure out how to pluck it from the sky without getting burned.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“If one of these days you don’t see me, don’t come looking.”
Source: ريم
“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”
Source: Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France
“If one of us falls victim to injustice and we do not speak out, we all fall.”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“if one of us falls, we all fall”
“If one of us is chained, none of us are free...”
“If one of us is unwell, then none of us is well.”
Source: I Am a Girl from Africa
“If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?”
“If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.”
“If one of you sees, sometime, something unedifying and so much as goes on to pass it on and put it into the heart of another brother, in doing so you not only harm yourself but you harm your brother by putting one more little bit of knavery into his heart. Even if that brother has his mind set on prayer or some other noble activity, and the first arrives and furnishes him with something to prate about, he not only impedes what he ought to be doing, but brings a temptation on him. There is nothing graver or more deadly than this doing harm, not only to himself but also to his neighbor.”
“If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!”
“If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?”
“If one only focus on the stages of development and ignore the spiritual, he or she has done injustice to the cycle of life.”
“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse”
“If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.”
“If ONE out of 15 ideas succeed that’s better than 99% of your friends who never start a single idea.”
Source: Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines