I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.”
Source: Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series
“If parents in society do not do the parenting, the government will...and not in the way society will enjoy.”
Source: Sophizo
“If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.”
“IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE”
“If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”
Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
“If parents’ understanding of marriage is not directed towards their home life, their children suffer directly.”
Source: Children in the Church Today: An Orthodox Perspective
“If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with those, and they should not use their children for that purpose.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.”
“If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture”
Source: Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
“If parents would only realize how they bore their children.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.”
“If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“If Paris were missing, he´d want the same guys looking for him. Seriously, the only team capable of getting better results would be Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Hannibal”
Source: Lords of the Underworld Collection 3: The Darkest Secret\The Darkest Surrender\The Darkest Seduction
“If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?”
“If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.”
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”
“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.”
“If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.”
“If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.”
“If Party of Five hadnt done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if Time of Your Life doesnt do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.”
“If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.”
“If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.”
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”
“If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!”
Source: The Works of John Dryden
“If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.”
“If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of it soaked in mud. It's warm and it stinks like shit and it's unaccountably and endlessly good. It's thick and it goes on for miles and it isn't so much deep as bottomless and it holds you in its grip, you never drown. And then it goes. That's all you know.”
Source: Inferno
“If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.”
“If past behavior is any indication, we're in a lot of trouble with Hillary Clinton in the White House, as well, who has promised to start a no-fly zone in Syria, which amounts to a declaration of war against Russia.”
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”
“If past is written with memories of regret & sorrows. Then close the book.”
“If Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania wins, for instance, it will tell Republicans that their own brand hasn't been hurt too badly by [Donald] Trump's negatives.”
“If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.”
“If patience came in cans my local supermarkets would all be sold out”
“If patience is not a virtue of the beholder of life, beauty in its simplistic form cannot be appreciated”
Source: Eclectic Oprision
“If Patience is the Key of Success then Communication is the master key of it”
“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“If patience wasn't so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue...”
Source: A Gentleman in Moscow
“If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end”
Source: Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
“If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross over so as to avoid them. When she came in contact with people, she realised she split herself into many different, false, identities, but, because she loathed lying and deceit, she chose to absent herself completely rather than go through such a charade. Highsmith interpreted this characteristic as an example of 'the eternal hypocrisy in me', rather her mental shape-shifting had its source in her quite extraordinary ability to empathise. Her imaginative capacity to subsume her own identity, while taking on the qualities of those around her - her negative capability, if you like - was so powerful that she said she often felt like her inner visions were far more real than the outside world. She aligned herself with the mad and the miserable, 'the insane man who feels himself one with all mankind, all life, because in losing his mind, he has lost his ego, his self-ness', yet realised that such a state inspired her fiction. Her ambition, she said, was to write about the underlying sickness of this 'daedal planet' and capture the essence of the human condition: eternal disappointment.”
Source: Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι
“If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.”
“If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.”
Source: The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis
“If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.”
Source: Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology
“If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?”
Source: Vineland
“If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?”
Source: Vineland
“If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?”
“If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.”
“If Paul was not reacting to a legalistic Judaism which understood salvation to be dependent ultimately on human achievement, then what was he reacting to? Sanders himself saw Paul’s reaction to be essentially confused. But James Dunn argued that the new perspective shed light on Paul’s theology by allowing us to see that its polemical thrust was directed not against the idea of achieving God’s acceptance by the merit of personal achievement (good works), but against the Jewish intention to safeguard the privilege of covenant status from being dissipated or contaminated by non-Jews. Paul was reacting primarily against the exclusivism which he himself had previously fought to maintain. In particular, he was reacting against the conviction (shared by most other Christian Jews) that ‘works of the law’, such as (or particularly) circumcision and laws of clean and unclean, continued to prescribe the terms of covenant relationship for Gentiles as well as Jews. It was in and from this conflict that Paul’s doctrine of justification by faith alone achieved its classic expression (Gal. 2:1–21). (p.10)”
Source: The Cambridge Companion to St Paul
“If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary.”
“If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.”
“If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.”