I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the eye cannot see the hidden aspects of the existential being, it cannot see anything yet. The truth itself lies in this darkness.”
“If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“If the eye never sleeps,
all dreams will naturally cease.
If the mind makes no discriminations,
the ten thousand things are as they are,
of single essence.
To understand the mystery of this One essence
is to be released from all entanglements.
When all things are seen equally
the timeless Self-essence is reached.
No comparisons or analogies are possible
in this causeless, relationless state.
Consider movement stationary
and the stationary in motion,
both movement and rest disappear.
When such dualities cease to exist
Oneness itself cannot exist.
To this ultimate finality
no law or description applies.”
“If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets”
“If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.”
Source: Neverfall
“If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the proper function of the organ, not an outside interruption. To some extent, then, all direction or control is a guiding of activity to its own end; it is an assistance in doing fully what some organ is already tending to do.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“If "The eyes are the window of the soul," the heart is the door to the soul. Head for the heart, not the head.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.”
“If the eyes are the window to the soul, then why does it hurt when I spray them with Windex?”
“If the eyes are the window to your soul open eyes bring the cold.”
“If the eyes are the windows to the soul, you're not going to like the view.”
“If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.”
“If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.”
“If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?”
“If the fact will not fit the theory-let the theory go.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Poirot Investigates
“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
“If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.”
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.”
Source: Miss Smithers
“If the fae found a way around the oath or the curse, they’d seize it, and we’d pay tenfold for having backed them into the corner.”
Source: The Cost of Curses: A Cursed Magic Novel
“If the faith of a mustard seed can move mountains, imagine what the faith of a coconut seed could do!”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.”
Source: Diane Arbus: revelations
“If the family goes, so goes our civilization.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“If the family is where we first learn about ourselves and others, it is also often the cradle of misidentity and isolation. Our false fronts, the insincere roles we adopt to survive, the ways the "victims" of loss endure and recover, combined with our interpretations (affecting both the images that appear to us and how we ourselves are perceived), the early influences that give shape to sexuality--these are the shards that each of sorts and reassembles and, finally, must pour our lives from.”
Source: Anonymity: The Secret Life of an American Family
“If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“If the family you chose before your birth no longer supports your path towards fulfilling your true destiny, it is never too late to find a new tribe.”
“If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em.”
“If the fans think I'm a savior, that's fine. But they have to understand I'm one of 25 guys. I can't do it all.”
“If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.”
“If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If the fascination towards material objects leave, the loss in spirituality also leaves!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“If the fat people just gave the skinny people more food, we could all just eat... We could solve obesity and hunger at the same time.”
“If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.”
“If the fates were arranging things, it was better to leave it entirely to them.”
Source: The Green Knight
“If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.”
“If the father is not straight naider will be the son.”
“If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?”
Source: The fables, ornamented with engravings, (by) Lady Diana Beauclerc
“If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you should not be able to buy a gun with no questions asked.”
“If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.”
“If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.”
“If the fear of death were merely the fear of dying, it would be better dealt with by medicine than by argument. There is, or there might be, an art of dying well, of dying painlessly, willingly, and in season,—as in those noble partings which Attic gravestones depict,—especially if we were allowed, as Lucretius would allow us, to choose our own time.
But the radical fear of death, I venture to think, is something quite different. It is the love of life. Epicurus, who feared life, seems to have missed here the primordial and colossal force he was fighting against. Had he perceived that force, he would have been obliged to meet it in a more radical way, by an enveloping movement, as it were, and an attack from the rear. The love of life is not something rational, or founded on experience of life. It is something antecedent and spontaneous. It is that Venus Genetrix which covers the earth with its flora and fauna. It teaches every animal to seek its food and its mate, and to protect its offspring; as also to resist or fly from all injury to the body, and most of all from threatened death. It is the original impulse by which good is discriminated from evil, and hope from fear.
Nothing could be more futile, therefore, than to marshal arguments against that fear of death which is merely another name for the energy of life, or the tendency to self-preservation. Arguments involve premises, and these premises, in the given case, express some particular form of the love of life; whence it is impossible to conclude that death is in no degree evil and not at all to be feared. For what is most dreaded is not the agony of dying, nor yet the strange impossibility that when we do not exist we should suffer for not existing. What is dreaded is the defeat of a present will directed upon life and its various undertakings. Such a present will cannot be argued away, but it may be weakened by contradictions arising within it, by the irony of experience, or by ascetic discipline. To introduce ascetic discipline, to bring out the irony of experience, to expose the self-contradictions of the will, would be the true means of mitigating the love of life; and if the love of life were extinguished, the fear of death, like smoke rising from that fire, would have vanished also.”
Source: Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante And Goethe
“If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?”
“If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then the love of GOD is the apex of it!”
“If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.”
“If the fear of the name increases, the fear too increases.”
Source: Harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone
“If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.”
“If the federal constitution is to be construed so far in connection with the state constitutions, as to leave the trial by jury in civil causes, for instance, secured; on the same principles it would have left the trial by jury in criminal causes, the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, etc. secured; they all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans, and have been recognized by the state constitutions.”
“If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches