I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.”
“If self-driving cars are going to work - they're being tested now, as you know - the computers that drive them have to have lots of practice before they're allowed to get out in a real car on the roads.”
“If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.”
“If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.”
“If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!”
“If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.”
“If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.”
“If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to knock the sense out of me to sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense ... sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.”
“If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“If sensuality isn’t the main goal, then we’re honestly robbing ourselves and letting our life pass us by.”
“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.”
“If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.”
“If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.”
“If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.”
Source: Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart
“If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a great setback. We don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses - over 170 million jobs that could be lost.”
“If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.”
“If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?”
“If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected.”
“If seven plus seven equals seven and I’m on the bus with a blonde seven does that mean that our first offspring is going to be born in a car at seven?
Poem - Numbers Don't Mean Nothing.
December 8, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.”
“If sex-based oppression really was only a cultural construct, would it perhaps go away if we ceased naming it - is that why other systems of domination, such as racism or homophobia, still insist on naming their oppressed subjects, whereas patriarchy knows it doesn't have to name - women will still be women anyway?”
Source: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman
“If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.”
Source: Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
“If sex is a pain in the ass, then you're doing it wrong.”
“If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.”
Source: Braided Lives
“If sex is dignified it's not being done right.”
“if sex is everything then why are you so sad and lonely”
“If sex is not just about reproduction, it is not just about genes, XY chromosomes, and hormones either. Sex is introduced to explain skeletal structure, mental aptitude, posture, emotional disposition, aesthetic preference, body fat, sexual orientation and responsiveness, athletic ability, social dominance, shape and weight, artistic ability. It is also supposed to explain any number of so-called "instincts", including the nesting instinct, the maternal instinct, and perhaps even the Budweiser instinct.”
“if sex is something that you share with others, what is exceptional to the two of you”
Source: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
“If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?”
“If sex isn't a joke, what is it?”
Source: Passing
“If sex isn't an important part of your marriage, you can't beef if your wife or husband does this unimportant thing with somebody else every once in a while, if you have no interest in it.”
“If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.
(Dark Lover)”
“If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.”
Source: Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“If sex were not pleasant, then population, animals etc. would gradually decrease and go extinct!”
“If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.”
“If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.”
“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”
“If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.”
“If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.”
“If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.”
“If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.”
Source: The Shadow Thieves
“If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?”
Source: Stan Lee: conversations
“If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.”
Source: Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man
“If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.”
“If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.”
“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.”
“If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.”
Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition