I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If someone is very hungry, the Angkar will take him where he will be stuffed with food.”
“If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.”
“If someone is watching you, you can escape from him, but if no one is watching, you cannot escape from yourself.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.”
“If someone isn’t listening, stop talking. Protect your energy.”
Source: Breaking Free: A Journey from Chaos to Clarity
“If someone isn’t there for you, be there for yourself. Don’t wait for calls that never come, or comfort from someone who only shows up for themselves. Wipe your own tears, hold your own heart together, pick yourself up again. Because the cruel truth is, some people don't love you or care about you, they only care about what they get from you. But you? You are the one who has to live with yourself every day. So show up for yourself… the way others should have, but didn’t.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“If someone keeps disappointing you again and again, that's on you. Once someone shows they’re all about themselves, it’s time to stop hoping they’ll suddenly morph into a saint. People don’t change just because you want them to. So, stop hitting replay on the disappointment soundtrack and start looking out for yourself. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice—well, you know the rest. Set those boundaries and let them live their self-centered lives while you protect your peace.”
“IF SOMEONE KEEPS DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING
THEY WILL GET BETTER AT IT,
BUT....
THEY STILL WON'T BE BETTER THEN YOU!
KEEP PUSHING!”
Source: Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
“If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.”
“If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.”
“If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.”
“If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.”
“If someone knows the truth and deliberately lies to mislead others, causing harm or damage, the responsibility lies with them, not those who believed the lie. Their karma is always waiting for them; whatever you sow, you shall reap. You may be believable and convincing to people, but the truth won't change because you altered the facts. The truth will eventually come out, exposing the monster you are. The truth you know will haunt you and is waiting for you.”
“If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.”
“If someone laughs without any reason. Either he is mad, or he knows the truth of life.”
“If someone leaves you never thought of losing, someone better comes you never thought of having.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If someone left Redwyn alone for half a day, the toddler would bring down the palace. How, Calvin did not know, but it would happen. Redwyn possessed a capacity for mischief and trouble that far exceeded her parents’.”
Source: Crown
“If someone lied to you, and you positively know this is true, you may find delight in telling them they are the most honest person you know; continue flattering them, giving them the most wonderful compliments, including how you're so thankful to have such an honest person in such a deceptive world. But, then again, this may very well make you a liar too.”
“If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.”
“If someone lies in the bed they made, you don't have to tuck them in; but you don't have to hop in bed with them, either.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt
to tell you the truth.”
Source: Passion Profit Power
“If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.”
“If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.”
“If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.”
“If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you.”
“If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.”
“If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.”
“If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.”
“If someone loses a key and then finds it again, which key does one keep, the old or the new?
The queen replied; 'Certainly the old one.”
Source: The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
“If someone loves sweet things and constantly eats angel´s hair tartlets should this be diagnosed as having some sort of heavenly trichotillomania?”
“If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire.”
“If someone loves you... Care about you
While you do not look at him
He's not bothering you and forcing you
It does not mean he is sticking but rather it's mean.... That person does not want to bring anyone other than you into life
He truly loves you”
“If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.”
“If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.”
“If someone loves you, they can fall out of love with you but they're probably going to keep fearing you. That's where we are with [Donald] Trump.”
“If someone made a lot of money with minimal effort, it probably means they betrayed either themselves or others.”
“If someone makes you dig your own grave at gunpoint, that’s the perfect time to tell your edgiest duck joke. Because what’s the other guy going to do, kill you? Then he’d have to shovel.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.”
“If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.”
“If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.”
“If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.”
Source: Woman Thou Art Loosed! 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Healing the Wounds of the Past
“If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.”
“If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.”
“If someone needs to kill me, I’d like that someone to be you.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“If someone now asked of us the truth of Dostoevski's statement that flatly defines man as a being who can get used to anything, we would reply, "Yes, a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.”
“If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.”