I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.”
Source: Who am I? with comments: Instructions for Self-inquiry
“If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.”
Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.”
“If the Egyptian Pyramids were not made in the shape of a pyramid, but in the shape of a sphere of the same size, then we could be convinced that it was aliens, not Egyptians, who built them!”
“If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.”
“If the elect could perish, then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to his father, because God the father hath given this charge to Christ, that whomsoever he elected, Christ should preserve them safe, to bring them to heaven. Now should not this be accomplished, Christ would be unfaithful to his father. John 6.39.”
“If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'”
“If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the atonement of the Son be universal? That would put the persons of the Trinity completely at odds with one another-but the triune God is completely unified.”
“If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that?”
Source: Arnold Wesker: A Casebook
“If the electrons in the atoms of his body were not at peace and forever restless, how could he be not?”
Source: Random Cosmos
“If the elite were patient, they would discover the one thing that the fool recognizes as wisdom.”
“If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.”
“If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'”
“If the embryonic Titanide got all things practical and much historical from the foremother, it got everything else from the hindmother. Rocky wondered if he wasn’t prejudiced-being hindpregnant himself-but it seemed to him this was the most important part.”
Source: Demon
“If the emotional relationship is mutual and the alliance works out it would open the gates of happiness and contentment for you”
Source: Coffee Beans
“If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself”
Source: The Free Child
“If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)
“If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?”
“If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.”
“If the end does not justify the means - what can?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“If the end is right, it justifies the beans!”
Source: Into the Woods
“If the end result is customer satisfaction, your business will thrive. If the end result is customer loyalty, your business will bloom.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“If the ending is this painful, I don't know if this was worth it all.”
Source: You've Reached Sam
“If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?”
“If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.”
“If the enemy behaves like a mountain, then you should attack like the sea; and if he behaves like the sea, then you should attack like a mountain.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.”
“If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.”
“If the enemy had no intention of harming us, then we would not classify that person as an enemy... It is his or her very intention of harming us which makes that person an enemy and because of that the enemy provides us with an opportunity to practice tolerance and patience. Therefore an enemy is indeed a precious teacher.”
Source: The Book of Compassion
“If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.”
Source: Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers
“If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return; if we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the sovereign himself.”
“If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.”
Source: On War
“If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.”
Source: The Art of War
“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then a friend of my enemy, is my enemy.”
“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.”
“If the enemy opens the door, you must race in.”
Source: The Art of War
“If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him.”
“If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“If the ENGELS of the MARX, caused by that LENIN, is STALIN the inevitable progression of the human race, would not PUTIN communism to bed be beneficial for the rest of the WORLD?”
“If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.”
“If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.”
Source: Collected Works
“If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.”
Source: Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommentaries, and Vulgar Excesses
“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”
“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.”
“If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.”
“If the entire cheerleading squad turns into mice, Robin, I will be very upset with you. Mortal adolescents are blind and cruel. You know that. You mustn't take revenge, no matter how you feel about the girl. Especially now. There are more worrisome things on the move.
-Ms Stacy”
Source: The Iron King
“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.”
Source: Why Evolution Is True
“If the entire scientific endeavor was treated like a business venture – which, to a large extent it is – it would not pass an elementary risk assessment test.”
“If the entire team can feel the same way about these things, you can consistently remain a winner.”
“If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!”