I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If there exists in this universe anything more infuriating and crazy-making than a man, I don't know what it is, thank you, and I don't want to know.”
Source: The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared
“If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.”
“If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.”
“If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future that belongs to us, this country could be in real danger. We're lucky that there never has been an honest, charismatic figure. McCarthy was too much of a thug, you know? Nixon was too crooked. Trump, I think, is too much of a clown. So, we've been lucky.”
“If there had been a clock in the room, it would have stopped. Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them, and this was one of them. People don't get pauses like these very often. Some people never receive them at all.”
Source: Excerpt: Finale
“If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.”
“If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.”
“If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.”
“If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?”
“If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed”
Source: Outpost
“If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.”
“If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.”
Source: Commentary on Luke
“If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.”
“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
“If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.”
“If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.”
“If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.”
“If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.”
“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”
“If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.”
“If there has to be one flower that springs from the weeds, let that flower be YOU.”
“If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.”
Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“If there is 50kg load on your head, you can let go of it. But here the question is of letting go of your entire self. If you save even a bit of yourself, the magic won't happen. Instead you will twist yourself. So many twisted minds and egos out there!”
“If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.”
“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
“If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.”
“If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.”
“If there is a better solution... find it.”
“If there is a big bill to do infrastructure improvements and it is about working people, let`s do that. But let`s absolutely fight with every ounce that we have to protect healthcare and make it even better.”
“If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens.”
“If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to look back at those songs, and it's going to be emotional. And when someone plays it, and you know it, and you're going to go, "I know that song and I love it."”
“If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.”
“If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.”
“If there is a broad explanation for the fascination of quail shooting, it must be that no man can bet on just how good he’ll be on any given day. The challenge of bird to man is permanent. You will catch a full night's sleep, find perfect shooting the next day, and miss everything that flies. You can get drunk as an owl, sit up all night, fly a plane from dawn until noon, and with a bellyful of butterflies kill all that rustles. My personal record of 15 out of 18 shots was set on a basis of no sleep at all for two nights, due to work and travel, with a splitting headache and hands that shook like maraca gourds. Recently I had 11 in the bag with 13 shots. We couldn't find bird No. 12, and this so upset my timing that it took me 22 shots to get the other four quail. And we had to chase the last one to death. - The Brave Quail By Robert Ruark”
Source: The Greatest Quail Hunting Book Ever, Collector’s Edition
“If there is a bug in your code than you have to drop everything you're doing and go fix it.”
“If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.”
Source: Word and Object
“If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.”
“If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.”
“If there is a certain sincerity and ethics in a dissociated life lived with self-awareness, it is because hypocrisy and deception dwell in the falsely coherent life.”
Source: Beautiful Fighting Girl
“If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change”
“If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.”
“If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.”
Source: No Passion Spent
“If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.”
“If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.”
Source: In place of folly
“If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.”
“If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.”
“If there is a construction or a pathway in the spirit to be made, it is the way of godliness.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.... What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.”
“If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on earth, and has made itself impossible to observe. Even if you believe in that God... why would you think it would want to be worshiped?”