I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities.”
“if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities”
“If something is real and true, it will be real and true the whole time you stubbornly refuse to believe it.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.”
“If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and a long list of others to bomb Washington and New York, then it’s wrong for Rumsfeld to bomb Afghanistan (on much flimsier pretexts), and he should be brought before war crimes trials.”
“If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.”
“If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.”
“If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!”
“If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't”
“if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.”
“If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.”
“If something is too hard, we move on to something else. What could be simpler than that? —CHARLIE MUNGER, BERKSHIRE ANNUAL MEETING, 2006”
Source: Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor
“If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.”
“If something is ugly, it’s likely that it’s only ugly because it’s never been given the opportunity to be beautiful. And never having had that opportunity is likely the ugliest thing of all.”
“If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.”
“If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.”
“If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.”
“If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.”
“If something is worrying you, always do something about it. It doesn’t have to be the big thing that will make it disappear. It can be any small thing. But the positive effect it will have on you will be enormous.”
Source: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“If something is worth bearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.”
Source: Mortality
“If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.”
“If something is worth doing right, it is worth doing right now.”
“If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.”
“If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.”
“If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
“If something is worth saying, it is worth saying three times over.”
“If something is wrong for you or me, it is also wrong for the cop, the soldier, the mayor, the governor, the general, the Fed chairman, the president. Theft does not become acceptable when they call it taxation, counterfeiting when they call it monetary policy, kidnapping when they call it the draft, mass murder when they call it foreign policy. We understand that it is never acceptable to wield violence nor the threat of violence against the innocent, whether by the mugger or the politician.”
“If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach.”
Source: Mucusless Diet Healing System: Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health
“If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it”
“If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.”
Source: Naked Empire
“If something isn’t right, just telling your friend can make it seem better, even though they might not know how to fix it.”
Source: The Cat Who Taught Zen: A Beautifully Illustrated Exploration of Self-Discovery
“If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.”
Source: Lessons Learned
“If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall.”
“If something isn't working, don't try harder or do more. Do something DIFFERENT.”
“If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.”
“If something It is not working the way, It should.
Then there should be a change. You choose , If It Is a change of behavior, change of character, change of mindset, change of heart, change of perception, change of attitude, change of principle, change of methods, change of location, change of life or change of lifestyle .”
“If something It is not working the way, It should.
Then there should be a change. You choose , If It Is a change of behavior, change of character, change of mindset, change of heart, change of perception, change of attitude, change of principle, change of methods, change of location or change of life .”
“If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.”
“If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!”
“If something looks ugly, leave it to the eyes not to the brain and if something looks beautiful, leave it to the eyes not to the heart”
“If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.”
“If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.”
“If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.”
“If something negative comes to the surface, such as your despair and anger, or the despair and anger of your spouse, you need the energy of mindfulness to embrace it.
Breathing in, I know that anger is there in me.
Breathing out, I care for my anger.
This is like a mother hearing her baby cry out. She is in the kitchen, and she hears her baby wailing. She puts down whatever she has in her hands, goes into the baby's room, and picks it up in her arms. You can do exactly the same thing--embrace the pain that is coming to the surface.
Breathing in, I know that you are there, my dear anger, my dear despair.
I am there for you; I will take care of you.”
Source: You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“If something or someone makes you happy and brings joy to your life, it does not have to make sense to anyone else.”
“If something or someone's really bugging you, just sit on it. Just sit on it.”
“If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.”