I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.”
“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!”
“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.”
“If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are”
“If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.”
Source: Treadmill to Oblivion
“If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.”
“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, chances are it’s getting better care.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”
“If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.”
“If the grass is greener somewhere else...start watering your own lawn!”
“If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.”
“If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.”
“If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.”
Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire
“If the gravitational field is space, according to Einstein, then this field is the generator of Everything. What makes the gravitational field or space function is motion or the original, primordial “vibration” (Max Planck’s term). Without the original vibration, there would be no motion and no gravitational field. Without motion, there would be no gravitation, no gravitational field, no space, and no curvature of space.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If the great advances that led to the rise of the human race lead to the extinction of animal and plant races, such a rise would first of all represent a great moral collapse!~”
“If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.”
“If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s.”
“If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.”
Source: The People's Pottage
“If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?”
“If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.”
“If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.”
“If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs”
“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”
“If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.”
“If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.”
“If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.”
Source: Burnt Shadows
“If the greatest philosopher in the world found himself on a plank wider than actually necessary, but hanging over a precipice, his imagination would prevail, even though his reason convinced him of his safety.”
“If the greatest playwright of all time was a hoax, wouldn't that have been exposed in the last, oh, four hundred years?" Darnell asked.
"I think a hoax can look like history," Melina replied, "if you mistake mythology for truth.”
Source: By Any Other Name
“If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.”
“If the grim realities you are facing at this time seem dark and heavy and almost unbearable, remember that in the soul-wrenching darkness of Gethsemane and the incomprehensible torture and pain of Calvary, the Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life. He did it for you, and He did it for me. He did it because He loves us and because He obeys and loves His Father. We will be rescued from death-even from the depths of the sea.”
“If the Gross National Product of the United Kingdom grew by, say, five per cent . . . could we then use all or most of this money, this additional wealth. to fulfil our nation’s aspirations? Assuredly not; for under private ownership every bit of wealth, as it arises, is immediately and automatically privately appropriated.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.”
“If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.”
“If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?”
“If the guardian or the mother
Tell the woes of willful waste,
Scorn their counsel and their pother,
You can hang or drown at last.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then the guest who volunteers has to cover the whole thing. A guest can't volunteer -all- of the guests to pay for the host/honoree.”
“If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.”
“If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.”
“If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.”
“If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.”
“If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.”
“If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.”
“If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not. He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.”
“If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.'”
“If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.”
“If the guy you’re dating doesn’t seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start ‘figuring him out,’ please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find someone that is.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“If the guy's a cutie, you've gotta tap that booty.”
“If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.”
“If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.”