I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?”
Source: The 5th Wave
“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.”
“If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.”
“If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”
“If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?”
“If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?”
“If the world despises one of the brethren, the Christian will love and serve him. If the world does him violence, the Christian will succor and comfort him. If the world dishonours and insults him, the Christian will sacrifice his own honour to cover his brother's shame. Where the world seeks gain, the Christian will renounce it. Where the world exploits, he will dispossess himself, and where the world oppresses, he will stoop down and raise up the oppressed. If the world refuses justice, the Christian will pursue mercy, and if the world takes refuge in lies, he will open his mouth of the dumb, and bear testimony to the truth. For the sake of his brother, be he Jew or Greek, bond or free, strong or weak, noble or base, he will renounce all fellowship with the world. For the Christian serves the fellowship of the Body of Christ, and he cannot hide it from the world. He is called out of the world to follow Christ.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.”
Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life
“If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would make very pleasant children.”
“If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.”
“If the world does not please you, you can change it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.”
“If the world doesn't tell you why you're born, tell the world why you're born. Live like a legend or die like one.”
“If the world drew an art of positives, so did schools, of promises.”
Source: A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
“If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade.”
“If the world ended the day after tomorrow, I would not go to my death without first knowing I’d done everything I could to save my friend.”
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
“If the world ends tomorrow, understand that I regret saying no.”
Source: White Horse
“If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.”
“If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.”
“if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.”
Source: Bleak House
“If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.”
“If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.”
“If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.”
“If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.”
“If the world had more carers and sharers, we wouldn't need the services of therapists.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.”
“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.”
“If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.”
Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection
“If the world insists on being cruel, steal the stage, and make it your own.”
Source: The God in the Dirt: A Gothic Horror Western
“If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?”
Source: The Hammer
“If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?”
Source: The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)
“If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.”
“If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently.”
“If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.”
“If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe.”
“If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.”
“If the world is constantly telling you that a part of you isn't real, or that it is shameful, it is hard not to let that get to you sometimes.”
“If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?”
Source: What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes
“If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the last, desperate refuge of the bourgeoisie”
“If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.”
“If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"”
“If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.”
Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
“If the world is listening to your music, then you have made really a good music! If only those in your country are listening to your music, sit down and make music again! Keep making music until the whole world is your listener!”
“If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.”
“If the world is made to furnish each individual with the means of livelihood and the instruments for his growth and progress, each man has therefore the right to find in the world what is necessary for himself. The recent Council reminded us of this: "God intended the earth and all that it contains for the use of every human being and people. Thus, as all men follow justice and unite in charity, created goods should abound for them on a reasonable basis."”
“If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.”
“if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.”
“If the world is progressing faster than your company or organization prepare for extinction!”