I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.”
Source: The Enchantress of Florence
“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
“If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.”
Source: Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
“If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?”
“If prayer ceases to be an emergency measure and becomes a daily habit, the world will become a beautiful place, because more people would be at peace with their God, at peace with themselves and at peace with others in the land.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly selfish, and we come to think of God as a repairman or a service agency to help us only in our emergencies. We should remember the Most High day and night-always-not only at times when all other assistance has failed and we desperately need help.”
“If prayer is the most effective way to prevent mass shootings, how come no one ever brings Rosary Beads to a gunfight?”
“If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.”
Source: Teach Ye Diligently
“If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.”
Source: Everyday Wisdom
“If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.”
Source: The Jesus I Never Knew
“If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.”
Source: Prayer
“If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.”
Source: Things Invisible to See: A Novel
“If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.”
“If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.”
“If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. The beginning is glorious, especially if you're lucky enough not to have morning sickness and if, like me, you've had small breasts all your life. Suddenly they begin to grow, and you've got them, you've really got them, breasts, darling breasts, and when you walk down the street they bounce, truly they do, they bounce bounce bounce.”
Source: Heartburn
“If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?”
Source: Tell Me a Secret
“If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?”
“If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where, if you inform strangers that you are a mathematician, they respond with admiration and not by telling you how much they hated math in school, and how they sure could use you to balance their checkbooks.”
“If President [Barack] Obama - President [Donald] Trump shows up with a, you know, cleaver and just says, I can get rid of all these regulations, I can get rid of ObamaCare, no problem at all, then that would be a mistake.”
“If President Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim, let me assure you the dude is the worst Muslim of all time. He eats bacon openly, drinks alcohol, never recites the Quran while facing Mecca, believes Jesus Christ is his savior, goes to church, and says he is a Christian. It's safe to say we won't be naming him our caliph after we take over America one Subway and halal food cart at a time.”
Source: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
“If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.”
“If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.”
“If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.”
“If President Clinton has his way, we will have a false debate in the 1996 election campaign. It will not engage real political choices - choices framed by our appetite for government services and our distaste for taxes - but rather artificial choices crafted by Clinton to advance his reelection. Clinton has clearly been using the budget as an election platform...I dislike using the word 'lies,' but Clinton exploits such forbearance (widespread in the press) to spread untruths.”
“If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.”
“If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.”
“If President Obama wants to keep calling for protests, then that will be his legacy, one of division, rich versus poor, old versus young, black versus white, always dividing. That's what you get under President Obama.”
“If President Trump is left disabled by COVID-19, do you think he will get his disability benefits?”
“If President Young wants my wives I will give them to him without a grumble, and he can take them whenever he likes.”
“If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.”
“If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.”
“If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.”
“If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.”
Source: An Experiment with Time
“If price is your only advantage, you have no advantage.”
“If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.”
Source: A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more
“If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.”
“If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.”
“If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin.”
“If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.”
“If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.”
Source: Discussions
“If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded.”
“If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.”
“If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.”
“If principles can become dated, they're not principles.”
“If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital.”
“If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal”
“If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.”
“If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.”
“If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.”
Source: Against Authority: Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States