I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires.”
“If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.”
Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.”
Source: Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works
“If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.”
“If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then ... amphibia ... reptiles ... mammals, and now it's making men.”
“If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.”
“If the Germans had known Olive and had been sensible they would have gone out of their way not to anger her. But they didn’t know or they were stupid. When they killed Martin Hopps they lost the war because that made my mother mad and she took out after them.”
Source: East of Eden
“If the Germans had known Olive and had been sensible they would have gone out of their way not to anger her. But they didn't know or they were stupid. When they killed Martin Hopps they lost the war because that made my mother mad and she took out after them. She had liked Martin Hopps. He had never hurt anyone. When they killed him Olive declared war on the German empire.”
Source: East of Eden
“If the germans have no right to take pride in their past, neither do the british or the americans.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“If the giddiness of life and the pressure of time might make us tumble from our tight line, let us inhale the wisdom of our inspiration and reshape our “inner void” into an “inner space” and refurbish it with the fundamental, vital particles of our everyday experience. ("One drink after work.")”
“If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.”
“If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.”
“If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.”
Source: Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?”
“If the glare of the public eye has become unbearable, our inner child may claim its rights and our bodily shadow might turn into our mental second self, become our anchor, make us stay grounded and grant us deepness and intensity. By retreating from the blaze of display into our substantial self, we gain rootedness, insight and new worldly wisdom. ("Not without my shadow")”
“If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.”
Source: Thirteen bronzes: Alberto Giacometti
“If the global economy is unresponsive to people who feel left behind, if inequality continues to grow, then we could end up seeing more and more of these divisions arise throughout advanced economies around the world.”
“If the global supply chains are too fragmented, they're more vulnerable to shock. And that presents a threat to businesses everywhere. And when businesses everywhere suffer, people everywhere suffer.”
“If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.”
“If the goal is freedom, be prepared to fight battles you didn't ask for. If the goal is authenticity, be prepared to confront shame that wasn't yours to carry.”
“If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.”
“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.”
“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”
“If the goal is to save energy, the power company would save a lot more energy providing you with a clothesline.”
Source: Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys
“If the goal is unknown, then abuse is inevitable”
“If the goal of conservatives is to discourage young people from having sex, they should change their strategy and push to make comprehensive sexual education compulsory. Our educational system has proved that if a subject is taught in a boring enough manner, Americans will make every effort to avoid it for the rest of their lives. If homosexuality was taught in the same manner as trigonometry, even most gay people would have no use for it after graduation.”
“If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.”
“If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable.”
“If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.”
“If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.”
“If the gods are so intent on having some random yokel do their dirty work for them, the least they can do is leave behind more than the vague notion of Save the world at all costs, Joe. Because Joe is going to fuck it up. Joes always do.”
Source: Jane the Lich
“If the gods brought them together only to rip them apart, Sev didn’t think he could bear it.”
Source: Heart of Flames
“If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it”
Source: Eterlimus
“If the gods deal you a terrible hand, all you can do is play it as best you can.”
Source: Cocoon
“If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.”
“If the gods do evil then they are not gods.”
Source: The Trojan women
“If the Gods give up on you, will you continue?”
Source: Dreaming
“If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.”
“If the gods had left us behind then maybe we had left them too - whatever we had, I thought, was not for them to touch.”
Source: Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
“If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.”
“If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?”
“If the gods saw people’s souls but not their bodies, in mirror to the way people saw bodies but not souls, it might explain why the gods were so careless of such things as appearance, or other bodily functions. Such as pain? Was pain an illusion, from the gods’ point of view? Perhaps heaven was not a place, but merely an angle of view, a vantage, a perspective.”
Source: The Curse of Chalion
“If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“If the gods set a thousand lifetimes before me, I would walk every one that ended with your hand in mine. In any lifetime, no matter the path, I choose you.”
Source: Darkfire of Caerwynfael: A Slow-Burn Gothic Fantasy Romance with a Stoic, Protective Hero
“If the gods were listening, they would bring their thunder.”
Source: Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel
“If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!”
“If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest.”