I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.”
“If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to.”
“If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.”
Source: The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar
“If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.”
“If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well.”
“If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.”
“If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night.”
“If stars could speak, they would probably say only one thing today: Hide.”
Source: The Nothing Spirit: Nothing is Everything
“If stars needed the sky's permission to shine, the universe would be a very dark place.”
“If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.”
“If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.”
“If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.”
“If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.”
Source: Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel
“If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.”
“If STEM were a flower, mathematics would be its roots.”
“If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.”
“If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check out the killing... That's insane!”
“If steps are achievements, and achievements are success, then consider a step an achievement to your own success.”
“If Sting retires, would he have to change his name to Stung?”
“If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.”
“If stocks are attractive and you don't buy, you don't just look like an idiot, you are an idiot.”
“If stocks are optimistic, then so am I.”
“If Stone Cold was to become champion, as of now, that would be a public-relations corporate nightmare.”
“If stone met a man, stone might win--but if stone met humanity, then no force could preserve it.”
Source: Oathbringer
“If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers.”
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.”
“If strangling Tristan would miraculously provide him with a large latte, he'd gladly do it.”
Source: Once in a Snowstorm
“If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.”
Source: On Agate Hill
“If strength is love, then we weren't strong enough,
But if strength is letting love go, we were.”
Source: The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.”
“If stress and anxiety haunt you, take shelter in white space.”
Source: Quantraz
“If stress can't give us anything, then why give stress our attention?”
Source: Quantraz
“If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.”
Source: The Elegant Universe
“If strong trust is not knotted in the foundation of love, a home that could shield its inhabitants could not be built.”
Source: उत्सर्ग [Utsharga]
“If strong trust is not knotted in the foundation of love, a home that could shield its inhabitants could not be built. And life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears.”
Source: उत्सर्ग [Utsharga]
“If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.”
“If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks.”
Source: Stuart: A Life Backwards
“If students do not read the assigned texts, nothing important is happening in your literature classroom - nothing very important to develop your students' reading and interpretive abilities is happening, no matter how many lectures you deliver, vocabulary words your students "learn," elements of fiction students define, quizzes students take, essay test answers students write, or films you show. Nothing important is happening because student development of reading and interpretive abilities requires engaged reading.”
“If students don't think that you care and can relate, especially as they get older, they tune you out. I didn't get it in my classes at the graduate school of education. I got it intuitively from my own experiences as a student.”
“If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.”
“If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.”
“If stupid hippies hadn't killed nuclear power, we'd have nuclear power plants, safer and cheaper than coal-fired plants, all over, and electric cars really would be zero emissions.”
Source: Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
“If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.”
“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”
“If stupidity were a gift, only a few would have it.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.”
“If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.”
“If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.”
“If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.”
“If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.”
Source: Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853