I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.”
“If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“if people were rain ,
i was drizzle
and she was a hurricane .”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.”
“If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors.”
Source: The Thing About Jellyfish
“If people were silent, nothing would change.”
Source: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
“If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.”
“If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.”
“If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.”
Source: Satin Island
“If people weren't busy making a living and dealing with their problems, they would destroy each other in innovative ways. Misery is keeping the human race alive. An individual will continue to be miserable until she learns to handle lack of misery by knowing her true self.”
“If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.”
“If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.”
“If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?”
Source: Flight of the Eagle
“If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.”
Source: Life and letters
“If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.”
“If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!”
“If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.”
“If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.”
“If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.”
“If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.”
“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.”
“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
Source: Burger's Daughter
“If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.”
“If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.”
“If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.”
“If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.”
“If people would observe the obvious occasions of silence; if they would subdue the inclination to tale-bearing, and that eager desire to engage attention, which is an original disease in some minds; they would be in little danger of offending with their tongue, and would, in a moral and religious sense, have due government over it.”
Source: Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel & The Analogy of Religion
“If people would only listen to themselves, they would realize how naïve and ignorant they sound. Just because the term was created doesn’t mean it should be used.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved.”
“If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.”
“If people would read more of these humor books, they wouldn’t need all those self-improvement books!”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.”
Source: Make your life worth while
“If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.”
“If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.”
“If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!”
“If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself”
“If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking absolutist views, and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down.”
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.”
“If perception is limited, why do so many almost sacrifice their lives to satisfy it?”
“if perceptions are an experiment,
then why do we always lament
that a fool unkindly proclaimed our visible flaws?
when did we start making these laws?
for whom do we play this act
and when did we introduce such a pact
are we so hopelessly vain
to see that we have nothing to gain
we are just bystanders to our own lives
our instincts urge us to take nosedives
into the dimensions of our inner bliss
where we do not have to hiss
we seem to be thoroughly convinced
that if we acted as ourselves, we would be minced
when did living the truth become so ugly
held prisoner by mental chains, our ego smugly
i shall not honor this unspoken code
i will not walk down the beaten road
you may ridicule me, you may even condemn
but you will not sew my hem!”
Source: A Candid Aim
“If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?”
Source: The Misanthrope
“If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.”
“If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.”
“If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“If perfection slows you down, you are more likely to detour from the evolution path.”
Source: Quantraz
“If performed in the right spirit, there is no higher worship than the unpurchased service to another soul of whatever faith, belief, or social stratum. The Savior of the world said it simply, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40).”