I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?”
“If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.”
“If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.”
“If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.”
“If the average person's plan for deadly global pandemic was just buying all the TP and then shitting at least 4 times a day, how will they react to global thermonuclear war?
By just urinating more often?”
“If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.”
Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them.”
“If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.”
“If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.”
Source: A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
“If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.”
Source: By any means necessary
“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”
“If the baron is a masochist himself, then why would he attract another masochist? I suppose he wants someone cute to attract other sadists.”
Source: Our Young Man
“If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.”
“If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.”
“If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.”
“If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.”
“If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.”
“If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.”
“If the battles of life overshadow the joys of living, I’ve focused far too much on the battle and far too less on the fact that I’m alive enough to fight it.”
“If the Baudelaire orphans had been stalks of celery, they would not have been small children in great distress, and if they had been lucky, Carmelita Spats would have not approached their table at this particular moment and delivered another unfortunate message.
"Hello, you cakesniffers," she said, "although judging from the baby brat you're more like saladsniffers. I have another message for you from Coach Genghis. I get to be his Special Messenger because I'm the cutest, prettiest, nicest little girl in the whole school."
"If you were really the nicest person in the whole school," Isadora said, "you wouldn't make fun of a sleeping infant. But never mind, what is the message?"
"It's actually the same as last time," Carmelita said, "but I'll repeat it in case you're too stupid to remember. The three Baudelaire orphans are to report to the front lawn tonight, immediately after dinner."
"What?" Klaus asked.
"Are you deaf as well as cakesniffy?"
Carmelita asked.”
Source: The Austere Academy
“If the BBC says I'm Gay, it must be True!
I always knew I was gay. Just as straight people always know they are straight.”
Source: Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace
“If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.”
“If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.”
“If the bears don't get you, it's home.”
“If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.”
Source: The Ugly Stepsister
“If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.”
“If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.”
Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!”
“If The Beatles represent the most successful version you can be of a thing, then by that definition The Rolling Stones are The Beatles of music, not counting The Beatles. John Lennon is The Beatles of The Beatles.”
“If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?”
“If the Bedroom is your goal and not the throne room,
then your presence isn't welcome in my life....
You're not whom I prayed for.”
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.”
“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
“If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.”
“If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.”
“If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.”
“If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.”
“If the Being, Universe, appears in the Nothing, or the Nothing appears in the Being, a point in space is created, and consequently, time. What makes the Nothing a real nothing is the lack of something, the lack of the Being. If the Being appears, nothing is not nothing anymore, for it becomes space.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.”
Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
“If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.”
“If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.”
Source: Poems and prose
“If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.”
Source: The Richer, the Poorer
“If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.”
“If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.”
Source: Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
“If the best things in life are free, the second-best things cost only a handful of pennies.”
Source: The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way
“If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.”