I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.”
“If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.”
“If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.”
“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“If the statue engulfs people in fire, we should send Leo.’
‘I love you too, man.’
‘You know what I mean. You’re immune. Or, heck, give me some of those nice water grenades and I’ll go. Ares and I have tangled before.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“If the step that I am on becomes the plane upon which I live, I will soon forget that no single step is ever a staircase.”
“If the stock goes down we want to buy more.”
“If the stock market does go through a crisis of confidence, which I think clearly will happen one of these days, no one can predict just like you couldn't the dot com crash or the Lehman crash, but when it goes down it will go down by thousands of points because everyone will panic. No one owns this market today because they believe there's a huge sunny future for the United States economy. They're buying because they think the Fed can keep the thing pumped up, the bubble expanding.”
“If the stone falls hard enough the ripples last a lifetime.”
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
“If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.”
Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
“If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.”
“If the storm had a conscience, it could not be a storm!”
“If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.”
Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
“If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.”
Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my truth' or 'your truth,' even though we may believe it. It can only be our delusion or our mistake or our error, but it can never be our 'truth.'”
“If the story of my life could say one thing, I’d hope it would show the importance of venturing into the highways and the hedges to let invisible people know they’re seen and loved. To invite them in.”
Source: The Edge of Belonging
“If the story of my life falls prey to the fear that roams the back alleys of my heart, it is clear that I have not invited God into the city.”
“If the story of my life is about the storms that I have weathered, I will tell you that it is not the force of the storm that matters. What matters is that I had the privilege of the storm so that I might understand the power of the calm.”
“If the story of your life was all about you, at your death the person who would have found pleasure in reading it is in the same pine box that you are. And the ones who have no interest are the ones shoveling the dirt.”
“If the story you are sharing is not yours, it is just another story that more than likely has already been shared may times.”
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.”
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.”
“If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.”
“If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?”
Source: Thomas Hardy: Selected Prose, Volume I
“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.”
Source: The Way Home
“If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.”
“If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.”
“If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe.”
Source: The Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creat
“If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed”
“If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then each of these parts can serve as the mould for the production of a replica of the other part, and the complex of two complementary parts thus can serve as the mould for the production of duplicates of itself.”
Source: Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences
“If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.”
“If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.”
“If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life.”
“If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.”
“If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they were also immersed in the traditional myths of their culture—the ancient story, for example, of how the island of Pohnpei had been built under the direction of a mystical octopus, Lidakika. (I was fascinated by this, for it was the only cephalopod creation myth I had ever heard.”
Source: The Island of the Colorblind
“If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.”
“If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?”
“If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.”
Source: The Republic of Plato, Translated Into English, with an Introduction, Analysis, and Notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan
“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caeser would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.”
Source: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.”
Source: Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text
“If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.”
“If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.”
“If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.”
“If the subject's easy we may all be wise;
What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.”
“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”
“If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.”
“If the sum of living be love's fee,
Tremble. You are my one eternity.”
“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”
“If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.”