I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.”
“If the philosopher is but a lover of wisdom, then philosophy is like a love letter for future generations.”
“If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.”
Source: Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook
“If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
“If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”
“If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.”
“If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.”
“If the phrase 'there are many ways to kill a cat' is a fact; please confirm cancer is on the cat list; there is a moral responsibility for the man in the mirror holding the solution to unveil it, for the sake of Gods creation.”
“If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!”
“If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier”
Source: Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
“If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.”
“If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.”
“If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.”
“If the pieces do not fit into your puzzle...
Try a different picture”
“If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!”
“If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.”
“If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
“If the play works in an emotional and engaging way purely from what's on the page, then what's on the stage will be the icing on the cake. If the play didn't work as a play on its own terms, none of the magic, none of the special effects or theatricality of it all, would add up to anything.”
“If the player has the confidence and ability, then he should sign with the pro team. Academics certainly play a large part in the decision, but if someone feels they are ready to sign, they should.”
“If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.”
“If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.”
“If the players go Christmas shopping, it's not ideal preparation. It may sound silly, but having to fight off the crowds in a busy shopping centre or having people visit can be demanding.”
“If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?”
“If the pleasure of change is too often repeated, it ceases to be delightful, for the change itself becomes monotonous, and we are driven to seek delight in extreme and fantastic degrees of it. This is the diseased love of change that brought the end of the gothic school.”
Source: On Art and Life
“If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?”
Source: No Impact Man: Saving the planet one family at a time
“If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what!”
“If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.”
“If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.”
“If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.”
“If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.”
“If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.”
“If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.”
Source: Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews
“If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.”
“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.”
“If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.”
“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“If the pointer is not pointing to a valid object or function, bad things may happen.”
Source: Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming
“If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.”
“If the police catch someone using their mobile phone whilst driving they should have the right to confiscate the person’s license with immediate effect, AND confiscate their car keys so they have to walk home. I don’t care if they’re 200 or 400 miles from home, take their keys off them.
And no need to waste the court’s time over this one. They don’t go to court. The police should have the power to write out a year’s driving ban on the spot and force them to surrender their license.
Anyone got any arguments over this one?”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll”
“If the police enforced the law, there would be thousands of police officers in jail!”
“If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house.”
“If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.”
Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do
“If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.”
“If the poor boy cannot come to education,
education must go to him”
Source: My Idea of Education
“If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.”
Source: The Thinking Reed
“If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde