I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.”
“If supremacy of conscience means anything, it means that the inner integrity of the individual is more important than any mental construct. If love means anything, it means accepting others in their differences from oneself as well as in their similarities.”
“If Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist wasn’t addicted to the pain-killing drug his doctor prescribed, but instead it was just that the drug had ‘established an interrelationship with the body, such that if the drug is removed precipitously, there is a reaction,’ you needn’t question that his decisions might have been influenced by his drug addiction.”
“If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.”
Source: Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
“If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?”
“If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.”
“If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.”
“If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.”
“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”
“If sushi occupies a position in Japan’s food hierarchy akin to that of haute French in the West, then ramen’s culinary status hovers somewhere around the prestige of a sloppy joe. The status of instant ramen? Probably several notches below that.”
Source: The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life
“If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is”
“If swans weren't real myths'd make up.”
“If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?”
“If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.”
“If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.”
“If Syria is to rise from the ashes it needs a united Arab world which has one thing on its agenda, not the falling of a dictator for we have seen many of those fall, but the reemergence of a prosperous Arab nation, one that is not reliant on foreign aid but is self-sustained and set on its way to become powerful once again.”
“If 't be true thou dost love me, then bare thy breast and runneth upon this bodkin. Nay, I do not require thy life or lethal proof that Narcissus festered in isolation. Man is a blotted parchment of sins and reminiscence his Purgatory.”
“If taking 100% of the labor and earnings of an individual is slavery, at what percentage is it not slavery?”
Source: The Fallacious Belief in Government: Warp Speed Toward Tyranny
“If taking a stand makes you a nutcase, be the nuttiest case that has ever walked.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
“If Takumi is beating the eggs whole, that means he's making a Genoise sponge cake for the cake layer, which has a soft and smooth texture but tends to be flat.
But by beating the eggs separated, Mimasaka is probably making a biscuit sponge cake for the cake layer, which is fluffier and will soak up more of the syrup!
"In other words, my cake layer will take better advantage of the sweet syrup than yours. I bet you picked Genoise sponge cake for its tender, smooth texture.
That's fine on its own, but if you try them side by side...
... mine will taste better.”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 10 [Shokugeki no Souma 10]
“If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.”
“If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.”
“If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.”
“If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.”
“If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.”
“If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.”
“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”
“If Taravangian killed a child, he'd do it not for vengeance. Not for fury. Not for wealth or renown. But because he sincerely thought the child's death was necessary. He would call it good, then? No. He would acknowledge it as evil, would say it stains his soul. He says... that's the point of having a monarch. A man to wallow in blood, to be stained by it and destroyed by it, so that others might not suffer.”
Source: Rhythm of War
“If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.”
“If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.”
“If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.”
“If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit
“If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.”
“If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?”
“If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.”
Source: Great Quotes for Great Educators
“If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.”
Source: The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
“If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.”
“If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.”
“If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?”
Source: Tempus
“If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.”
“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.”
Source: Idiosyncrasy & Technique
“If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.”
“If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.”
“If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?”
“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?”
“If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?”
“If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.”
“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”
Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture