I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction?”
“If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.”
“If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.”
“If the day did not require an AK then it was good”
“If the day ever comes when I can swallow defeat, I'll quit.”
“If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“If the day is not going well you can start it again at any time”
Source: Diana's Nightmare: The Family
“If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.”
“If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?”
“If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.”
“If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud”
“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.”
“If the deal is right, the money gushes towards it.”
“If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.”
“If the decision of what you did was yours, you absolutely have no valid excuse!”
Source: It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase
“If the decision you’ve made has brought you closer to humanity, then you’ve done the right thing.”
Source: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.”
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”
“If the deed's done right," he said, "there willna be any need for any creams or salves.”
Source: When a Scot Ties the Knot
“If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of all the physical processes in which the fine-structure constant enters, then we would be stymied. Fortunately, we do not need to know everything before we can know something.”
Source: New Theories of Everything
“If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental faith experience-then this would be a much greater miracle than the resurrection itself.”
“If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.”
Source: The Game of Chess
“If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.”
“If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch
“If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.”
“If the Democrats feel they have lost the public's confidence in their stewardship of national security, then the threat of Iran offers a Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, or John Kerry an opportunity to get out front now and pledge support for a united effort - attacking Bush from the right about too tepid a stance rather from the predictable left that we are 'hegemonic' and 'imperialistic' every time we use force abroad.”
“If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress will be downplayed and every setback amplified. In this way, Democrats can continue to rely on lopsided black support at the polls.”
Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“If the demons had made this world their Hell, then let them have it. All you could do was try to not get burned.”
Source: Hopebreaker
“If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.”
“If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.”
“If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.”
“If the desert can be defined as a soulless place where the sky alone is king, then Oran is awaiting her prophets.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.”
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.”
Source: Modern Painters
“If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.”
“If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.”
“If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.”
“If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“if the desire to transgress is a driving force, opening the gate will not prevent adventurers from climbing the fence”
Source: The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”
“If the desires are cut off one by one, then there is peace. When the desires go one by one then there is die-mind. Then there is peace of mind.”
“If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.”
“If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?”
“If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship.”
“if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.”
“If the devil cannot get you by SIN, he will seek to get you by IGNORANCE.”
“If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.”
“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
“If the Devil can’t make us really bad, then he’ll try to make us really busy.”
Source: WEIRD: Because Normal Isn’t Working