I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If people don't want to be helped, leave them alone.”
Source: Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies
“If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to”
“If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.”
“If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?”
“If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.”
“If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.”
“If people doubt you, then you made progress from "who cares?”
Source: Success, Love, Poetry.
“If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.”
“If people enjoy the film, it can be really intriguing to see what created that film, how each one of those unique components came together, who the people are who did it and what it meant to them to do it.”
“If people envisage me in the Senate they might think of me as someone who would emulate Paul Wellstone, fighting for the issues he fought for. He was a good friend of mine. We'll be trying to do a couple of things. One is fighting for national health care. Another is fighting to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, and changing our trade policies.”
“If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears.”
“If people fail to see your value, it is not their fault. Just that you've failed to appreciate and respect yourself. You are letting yourself down.”
“If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.”
“If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.”
“If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?”
Source: And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime
“If people find me attractive, it would be for reasons that anybody finds anybody attractive. It's something that comes from within, and it manifests itself physically.”
“If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”
“If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?”
“If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.”
“If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.”
“If people get together, so eventually will nations.”
“If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.”
Source: Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax
“If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.”
“If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.”
“If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.”
“If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.”
“If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.”
“If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.”
“If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.”
“If people hate me they hate me.”
“If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.”
“If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.”
“If people have been skipping their mortgage payments, they will likely do the same with their rental home payments.”
“If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies”
“If people have harmed us, that part is usually a protector whose need to cause injury comes from desperate attempts to not feel destroyed by the pain and fear they are carrying. Generally they are not conscious of this process, but it likely mirrors what has been passed down through the generations in the family.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?”
Source: Sensemaking in Organizations
“If people have no respect for God, no love for their Maker, I would ask the question another way: Why not pillage, rape, persecute and murder? If it feels good, and they can get away with it, why not? If God is dead or does not exist, as these people believe, why are not all things permitted? Why should they restrain themselves? Because it’s just wrong? Because it’s not the way civilized people behave? Because what goes around comes around? Because they’ll end up feeling terrible inside?
Within tidy circles of properly socialized and reasonable people, such appeals can seem like they actually have the power to restrain people from doing what they otherwise feel like doing. But in the real world outside the philosophy seminar room, oppressors frankly don’t care that you think it’s just wrong. Who are you, they ask, to foist your random moral intuition on them? Who are you to tell them or the lords of the Third Reich what civilized people should and should not do? If what goes around tends to come around, then there’s no moral problem, only a practical problem of making sure it doesn’t come around to you. They think, Fine, if being brutal makes you feel terrible inside, then don’t do it. But it makes me feel powerful, alive, exhilarated and masterful, so quit whining — unless you want to try to stop me.
This description of a dark Nietzschean world of self-will — a vacuum devoid of moral authority or spiritual resources for good — used to sen excessively melodramatic to me. But then I got out more. The world is truly full of brutal oppression because humans have rejected their Maker, the source of all goodness, mercy, compassion, truth, justice, and love.”
Source: Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World
“If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.”
“If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.”
“If people have the ability to see it, and you spend the money to put the wow factor into it, they will reward that entity or that team or that business, and they will then say they appreciate me, they appreciate what I'm about, and they will support it.”
“If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.”
“If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.”
“If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.”
“If people haven't walked a mile in your shoes, don't listen to them if they mock the sores on your feet.”
“If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.”
“If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.”
“If people in Indonesia look 'different', they are afraid. Racist insults fly if someone does not look like part of the majority. Indonesia is one of the most racist countries on earth, and it has proven it during several of the genocides that have taken place here. But there is no perception, no clue, and no understanding of what racism actually is. And there is zero self-criticism.”
“If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'”
“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”