I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.”
“If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence.”
Source: Greek Lessons
“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”
Source: The Winter People: A Novel
“If so be a time comes when yeh have to be kilt or do a mean thing, why, Henry, don’t think of anything ‘cept what’s right, because there’s many a woman has to bear up ‘ginst sech things these times, and the Lord’ll take keer of us all.' ~ Henry's Mother”
Source: The Red Badge of Courage
“If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.”
Source: Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished
“If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?”
Source: Stories and Prose Poems
“If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.”
Source: The Second Sex
“If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.”
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Source: The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide
“If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?”
“If so men's memories not a monument be,
None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone,
Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown.
Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”
“If so much love could vanish into the earth and speak no more, smile no more, then love was nothing.”
Source: Shantaram
“If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.”
“If so, then principled roaches must also go to Heaven.”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.”
Source: Outpost
“If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi”
“If social cohesion is one of the good things about growing up in a small town, the downside is the unchallengeable power of cliques. That sort of thing is in the nature of the teenage beast, but in bigger towns and cities there are usually so many different social groups within a single school or locality that most kids can find others they feel comfortable with. Not so in a small town. If you don't conform, even at the cost of sacrificing your principles and self-respect, you will be an outcast. And if you have a sensitive nature, it will mark you for life.”
“If social media comment sections are a true reflection of the general public, humanity is in serious trouble.”
“If social media is made for connection, why can’t we also have real-life centers for people to learn how to be independent?
Poem - Curious.
December 12, 2022.”
Source: EvolutionR
“If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?”
Source: Conversations with Ralph Ellison
“If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.”
Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice
“If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.”
“If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.”
“If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.”
“If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.”
“If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”
“If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.”
“If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.”
“If societies are going to elevate women to equality with men—and declare that people of any race or religion have the same rights as anyone else—then we have to have men and women and every racial and religious group together writing the code. … Diversity is the best way to defend equality. If people from diverse groups are not making those decisions, the burdens and benefits of society will be divided unequally and unfairly—with the people writing the rules ensuring themselves a greater share of the benefits and a lesser share of the burdens of any society. … That’s why we have to include everyone in the decisions that shape our cultures, because even the best of us are blinded by our own interests. If you care about equality, you have to embrace diversity—”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“If societies change and progress at a low pace, why the need for so much rush and neglecting of what really matters in our daily lives? Slow down and enjoy life... Because it is certainly and unexpectedly short...”
“If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.”
“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”
“If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.”
“If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.”
Source: Political Econ of Growth
“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”
“If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society will continue to build a world that makes it exceedingly difficult for disabled people to participate in said world, thus perpetuating the problem.”
Source: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
“If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.”
Source: Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events
“If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.”
“If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.”
“If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.”
Source: The New Land
“If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.”
“If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.”
“If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.”
Source: Poems by Nathaniel Cotton: With the Author's Life
“If solidarity is unity of purpose or togetherness, how to span this great divide of inequality, privilege, universal rights, political agency, and even our seeing things completely differently?
In constructing this great bridge of international solidarity across the globe, where do we even begin?”
Source: Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity
“If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“If solitude feels painful, it's only because we don't know how to be alone.”
“If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot.”
Source: Stillness Is the Key
“If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.”
Source: Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects