I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.”
“If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.”
“If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.”
“If someone with a high level of authority were to ask me, "Suzy, how can we make people so incredibly stupid and apathetic, so that we can do whatever we want without scrutiny?" I would say, "Go for the gut. Pollute the gut. The gut is the seat of all feeling. If you pollute the gut, you corrupt the mind. If you corrupt their minds, their hearts will turn dark. And without light inside their hearts, they will be too blind to see their conscience.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?”
“If someone with talent creates something, it's art. When someone with no talent creates something, it's crap.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.”
“If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.”
“If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.”
Source: An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law
“If someone wounds your heart, instead of understanding or reasoning or searching for the weapon, spend time, as a mother does to her baby, to care for the hole in your own heart.”
Source: Deeper Days: 365 Yoga-spirations for Inner Calm Amidst Chaos
“If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.”
“If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.”
“If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a big fan." And they're really nice people. When you're on the Internet, it's people's first instinct to just go after people.”
“If someone wrote a book about her, no one would believe it.”
Source: Rich People Problems
“If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.”
“If someone yells at me, they are not expressing love. They may be threatening me. They may be expressing great frustration with me. They may simply be trying to control my behavior. However, they are not communicating love.”
Source: The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
“If someone you know is diagnosed with cancer, give them a call or send them a letter to tell them how sorry you are and to let them know how much you care.”
“If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?”
“If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.”
Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner
“If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.”
“If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.”
“If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.”
“If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.”
“If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.”
“If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.”
“If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.”
“If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.”
“If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.”
“If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that you recognize immediately that an actor's playing in such a way that you can see that he's lying, and that's simply dumb. But to reach that, it requires that you make a film in such a way that a spectator feels compelled to find his own explanation. You want to lead the spectator to find his own interpretation. To ask questions rather than provide all of the answers. Doing that leads to open endings and open dramaturgy.”
“If someone's lying, are their pants really on fire”
“If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively.”
“If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.”
“If someone's pointing a gun at you, you get a surge of adrenaline, but it would be a lot better if they weren't pointing the gun at you in the first place.”
“If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.”
“If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together. Jennifer and I discovered this story together, and it was evident to us we would only do it with each other.”
“If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.”
“If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.”
“If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.”
“If something attacked me right now, I’d let it take me. I know, I know, I just made a deathbed promise to Maysilee to carry on the fight, but I can’t seem to rally. I pat her necklace against my pants to wipe off the blood — these black clothes just never stop giving — and hook the fancy clasp behind my neck to hang there with its friends. I’ve got my own jewelry collection now, what with District 9’s sunflower, Wyatt’s scrip coin, and Lenore Dove’s warring songbird and snake. Why, I’m almost as decorated as Miss Donner herself.”
Source: Sunrise on the Reaping
“If something attracts you, know that the reason you go towards it is because it carries a piece of your soul!”
“If something bad can happen, it will.”
“If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened.”
“If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.”
“If something beautiful is written on a whiteboard, you may never wipe it. Scars on your soul are like random lines scribbled on a whiteboard. They are an invitation to wipe away the past and future and live in eternity. Therefore, scars are sacred.”
“If something blows your mind, don't be afraid to say it. Scream it even. You might blow someone else's.”
“If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.”
“If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.”
“If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".”
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”