I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.”
Source: Seven Year Switch
“If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.”
“If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.”
“If Plan A isn't working, I have Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.”
“If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.”
“If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.”
“If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.”
“If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.”
“If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.”
“If pleasure does exist, and if life is necessary to enjoy pleasure, then life is happiness. There are misfortunes, as I know by experience; but the very existence of such misfortunes proves that the sum-total of happiness is greater. Because a few thorns are to be found in a basket full of roses, is the existence of those beautiful flowers to be denied? No; it is a slander to deny that life is happiness. When I am in a dark room, it pleases me greatly to see through a window an immense horizon before me.”
Source: The Memoirs of Casanova
“If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.”
“If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.”
“If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.”
“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?”
“If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.”
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
“If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
then it better not come at all.”
“If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.”
Source: Inner Experience
“If poetry is an escape into the woods,
then music is the journey back home.”
“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”
“if poetry
music
books
art
sky
ocean
don't make you cry
you should stare longer
read more
listen with your soul.”
Source: Love & Vodka: A Book of Poetry for Glass Hearts
“If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.”
“If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.”
“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.”
Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?”
“If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.”
Source: The Flavia de Luce Series 4-Book Bundle: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
“If poles were so important we'd call it Poling instead of Skiing”
“If police internal affairs worked, the public would not be video recording corrupt police officers.”
“If police officers are being hostile to me, then I have to defend myself using whatever non-contact choices I have available to me, including a 911 call for an independent supervisor.”
“If police officers knew that having a suspect die in their care would trigger an automatic termination of employment, I expect we would see far fewer police officers murdering their suspects.”
“If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.”
“If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.”
“If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.”
“If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language”
“If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement.”
Source: Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age
“If politically infused music is denied airplay, music reviews or festival stage time because it is considered "politics" rather than "art", then there will be no music left to ban. It will never reach the surface anyway, not to the larger audience. I believe that there is a high degree of censorship in the west, most importantly in the form of self-censorship among musicians themselves. This is why what you hear on the radio is - increasingly often - pure and toothless entertainment. Almost by definition, there's nothing left in pop music worth banning.”
“If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.”
“If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be”
Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
“If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.”
“If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.”
“If politicians disappear from the world, civil servants could easily do their job, because in reality, they already do. But if scientists disappear from the world, so will the world.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“If politicians don't care about the electorate and lie to them, they can't expect the electorate to care back and vote them in. An election must be more than a search for honesty in a snake pit.”
“If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.”
“If politicians had to live up to the same performance standards as scientists do, there would be no politicians in the world.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.”
“If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working.”
Source: Controversial Essays