I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.”
“If the science, method, or new technology presented sounds good, it is because it has reached the state of the art.”
Source: Dispensados pelo Excesso de Contingente
“If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'”
“If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.”
“If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.”
“If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.”
“If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.”
“If the sea does not embrace the river, it is confused and scattered.”
“If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.”
Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
“If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.”
“If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.”
“If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.”
Source: The Chinese Classics
“If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.”
“If the seat of our pants are worn thin, it’s probably because we’ve been flying by the seat of them far too long.”
“If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.”
“If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.”
“If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.”
“If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our hearts, starting with our eyes.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.”
“If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel open, however, is to court danger: a danger inseparable from the enhancement of life.”
Source: The Religion of the Future
“If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.”
“If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim.”
“If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their charge. Dialogue must be serious, without fear, sincere. It is important to recall that the language of young people in formation today is different from that in the past: we are living through an epochal change. Formation is a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps.”
“If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.”
“If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.”
“If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.”
“If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.”
Source: How the Dead Live
“If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man.”
Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker
“If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.”
“If the shame has not broken you; you have yet met the Holy one who became your last sin paying the price with His own blood”
“If the Sharia was to be implemented elsewhere, and, as part of its foreign policy, it would remove the operators in the way of preventing the Sharia.”
“If the shoe doesn't fit - break it!”
Source: The Ravenous Gown: And 14 More Tales about Real Beauty
“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within
“If the shoe fits you're lucky.”
“If the shoe fits, buy another one just like it.”
“If the shoe fits, buy it in every color!”
“If the shoe fits, buy it.”
“If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.”
“If the shoe fits, steal it.”
Source: Poker Player's Bible
“If the shoe fits, wear it.”
“If the shoe fits, you must wear it.”
“If the shoes don't fit, try wearing your own.”
“If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.”
“If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.”
“If the show is great, it doesn’t matter who wrote it. It doesn’t matter who takes charge when you’re filming it. It just matters if it works or not.”
“If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?”