I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.”
“If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep.”
Source: Reform or Revolution
“If the proletariat is to be the ruling class, it may be asked, then whom will it rule?”
Source: Statism and Anarchy
“If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.”
Source: Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving
“If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success--Ethelred The Unready”
“If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.”
Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc
“If the proposed ordinance is adopted it will hurt small women- and minority-owned businesses the most, the majority of which are already struggling mightily to do business in this city of higher-than average costs of doing business.”
“If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.”
Source: The Select Works: With a Memoir of the Author. ¬The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
“If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.”
“If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.”
“If the prospect isn't engaged, they'll be thinking divorce!”
“If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.”
“If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.”
Source: Reflections on the French Revolution
“If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.”
“If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773
“If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.”
“If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences.”
Source: The Papers of James Madison: 8 February-24 October 1813
“If the public likes you, you're good.”
Source: The Mike Hammer Collection
“If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.”
“If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .”
Source: Life and Writings
“If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.”
“If the pulpit begins to propagate a faulty or erroneous value system, it ends up captivating the whole country, in no time like a cancer spreading throughout the body.”
“If the pulpit has no heart for the lost, neither will the pew.”
“If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.”
“If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.”
“If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.”
“If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.”
“If the purpose of understanding is enrichment, wisdom, and truth, then there is no point to understanding as there is no definitive truth in any world where wisdom is not listened to and enrichment comes at the end of a gun.
© 2019, Daniel Kemp”
“If the pursuit of customer imagination were a religion, passion would be its hymnal.”
Source: Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions
“If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!”
Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions
“If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.”
“If the push towards life sustaining technology were balanced with options for comfort care in both medical school training and the healthcare culture, more people would have the chance to transition to death with dignity and grace.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it.”
“If the quality of my Christianity lies in my ability to be more inclusive than the next pastor, things get tricky because I will always, always encounter people—intersex people, Republicans, criminals, Ann Coulter, etc.—whom I don't want in the tent with me. Always. I only really want to be inclusive of some kinds of people and not of others.”
Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“If the quality of professional materials continues to erode or even dries up, then many of us silver photographers would have to follow the digital tidal wave. It certainly wouldn't be the end of the world, but in my opinion, having no silver material available would be a huge loss to photography.”
“If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown.”
“If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false”
“If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786
“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.”
“If the question is still asked why National Socialism combats the Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, the answer can only be, because National Socialism wishes to establish a real community of the people. Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien race to impose itself upon our working people as their leaders.”
“If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?”
“If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.”
“If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.”
“If the questions are based on the answers that I’ve already pre-determined, the only real question left is, “How long do I intend to be a slave to my cowardice and a whipping boy to my greed?”
“If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.”
Source: Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works
“If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.”
“If the Québécois ever designed a car, the hood ornament would be a middle finger.”
Source: How the Light Gets In
“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.”