I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the input string is not in the format, change the program, not the character”
“If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.”
“If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.”
“If the intelligence we send forward support the views that the administration has, it is welcome and we are told what a great job it is. And if the intelligence that gos forward don't support the views of the policymakers, it is instantly condemned.”
“If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.”
“If the interest in your art is low, first look at the qualities of the people who evaluate your art. If their qualities are good, then look at yourself and improve your art!”
“If the interest of a scientific expositor ought to be measured by the importance of the subject, I shall be applauded for my choice. In fact, there are few questions which touch more closely the very existence of man than that of animated motors—those docile helps whose power or speed he uses at his pleasure, which enjoy to some extent his intimacy, and accompany him in his labors and his pleasures. The species of animal whose coöperation we borrow are numerous, and vary according to latitude and climate. But whether we employ the horse, the ass, the camel, or the reindeer, the same problem is always presented: to get from the animal as much work as possible, sparing him, as far as we can, fatigue and suffering. This identity of standpoint will much simplify my task, as it will enable me to confine the study of animated motors to a single species: I have chosen the horse as the most interesting type. Even with this restriction the subject is still very vast, as all know who are occupied with the different questions connected therewith. In studying the force of traction of the horse, and the best methods of utilizing it, we encounter all the problems connected with teams and the construction of vehicles. But, on a subject which has engaged the attention of humanity for thousands of years, it seems difficult to find anything new to say.
If in the employment of the horse we consider its speed and the means of increasing it, the subject does not appear less exhausted. Since the chariot-races, of which Greek and Roman antiquity were passionately fond, to our modern horse-races, men have never ceased to pursue with a lively interest the problem of rapid locomotion. What tests and comparisons have not been made to discover what race has most speed, what other most bottom, what crossings, what training give reason to expect still more speed?”
“If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?”
“If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed as its foundations, let it say so openly, both to the people of Bosnia and to the people of the world. Let it proclaim a new code of behavior in which force will be the first and the last argument.”
“If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.”
“If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.”
“If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.”
Source: Disturbance: An Irene Kelly Novel
“If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.”
“If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.”
“If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.”
“If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.”
“If the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of philosophy - a style that has cut philosophy off, not only from the humanities but from every other branch of inquiry and culture.”
“If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.”
“If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.”
“If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently, then they're basically worthless. They're not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. So that is unfortunately the cycle we're in and we have to break the cycle.”
“If the involved spouse protects the identity of the lover or the nature of the relationship, then the betrayed spouse is the outsider in an extramarital triangle. Sharing the details is an act of positive demolition. The involved spouse dismantles the structure that kept the injured spouse outside in the cold and replaces deceit with hope.”
Source: Not "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity
“If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate.”
“If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.”
“If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.”
“If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”
“If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.”
“If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.”
“If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?”
“If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.”
Source: The Diamond Age
“If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.”
“If the Japanese are so smart, why do they eat with sticks?”
“If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.”
Source: Holidays in Hell
“If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.”
“If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
You may get a bland smile from these sages;
But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
“If the Jews are denied the right to live in freedom and peace, soon we will all be denied this right. If the light of Israel is extinguished, we will all face darkness. If Israel falls, the West falls.”
“If the job is not what you expected and not even your cup of tea, stay put and learn as much as you can while you carefully consider your next move.”
“If the journey I am on is of my terribly tedious design, dead ends will likely be my lot. If the journey is of God’s infinitely ingenious design, I will know nothing but horizons. And I have yet to fathom the utterly massive gulf that lay between the two.”
“If the 'Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step' - that is prescribed to - ALIGN”
“If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.”
Source: Black Like Me
“If the judges, who misuse the law, and make the wrong verdict, who else will judge such judges to support the justice to all without any distinction?”
“If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile fixed, and knows the power of the open air in promoting the former of those operations; it is not improbable, that both many things relating to the nature of the humours, and to the ways of sweetening, actuating, and otherwise altering them, may be detected, and the importance of such discoveries may be discerned.”
Source: Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq; ...
“If the jury acquitted Jack, their verdict would brand Weaver as the loser of the biggest case in Manistee history. The community would remember; local judges, defense lawyers and fellow prosecutors would remember. Weaver would be that prosecutor who couldn’t convict the bombing guy.”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.”
Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury
“If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was 'women should not wear short skirts because they can get cancer if they do.' Instead the reason is not about women, but about men. Women must be 'covered up' to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“If the k in magic(K) gives you hives, take an allergy pill and move onward to focus on more important things.”
Source: Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols
“If the kampung spirit is gone, like the physical kampung, we may only have
ourselves to blame.”
Source: My Father's Kampung: A History of Aukang and Punggol
“If the kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) decrease, it is called a religion; and if the kashays increase, it is called irreligion. When the kashays are gone, that is indeed ‘swadharma’ (religion of the Self).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“If the keepers of books, journals, films, compact discs, and software do not vigilantly defend free expression and intellectual freedom, who will?”
“If the Khalifah implements even one law outside of the divine law, then he will be removed. The courts will face him and he will face capital punishment and he will be removed.”
“If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.”