I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.”
“If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.”
“If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?”
“If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.”
“If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.”
“If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.”
“If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.”
“If there is a reason, if it makes sense, if it's making you demand something in return... Trust me, its NOT love!”
Source: Voicemates: A Novel
“If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.”
“If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.”
“If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it'll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else.”
Source: City of God
“If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?”
“If there is a road but no traveller, that road is useless! If there is a traveller but no road, that traveller is still useful because he can create a new road! Therefore, the traveller is superior to the road!”
“If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!”
“If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it up.”
“If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.”
“If there is a sense of panic upon your life, it may be because there is sin in that life of yours which you need to get rid of.”
Source: How to Be Filled With the Holy Spirit
“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe across the world for a barrage of these things, then the political climate is revolutionized here. And maybe the [Donald] Trump speech will look like a precursor to a climate that we're all about to walk into.”
“If there is a serious outbreak in the UK I doubt voters will risk a Labour government. Time to get serious... Look at Diane Abbott's irresponsible comments on Ebola patients, Mili's open border policy. No. Way.”
“If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!”
“If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.”
“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)”
“If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ.”
“If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends, it is supportive, accepting parents who not only love their children unconditionally, but also don't make them feel as if their idiosyncrasies qualify as "conditions" in the first place.”
Source: The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
“If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.”
“If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.”
Source: Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?
“If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.”
“If there is a single secret, then it can be simply put. Think big, create, plan, rethink (even bigger) then prepare, practice and perform.”
“If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.”
“If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.”
Source: The Progressive Patriot
“If there is a sixth stage, I would call it "meaningfulness", or "renewed meaning". We do not get over our loss, we don't find recovery; we may find renewed meaning and enrichment for having known our loved one.”
Source: On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
“If there is a skill you must be willing to master, it is time management, because it will save you a lot of time in this world.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.”
“If there is a small silver lining to my continued unemployment, it is that I have increased my hours at the farmers' market, where I am surrounded by people who love growing and making food as much as I love eating, reading, and writing about it. Every market brings with it a new sensory adventure: the toothsome crunch of Rick's millet muffins, the brazen tang of his sourdough, the sharp and herbaceous scent of his cheddar dill scones. Instead of trying to force a food connection like I did at The Morning Show, I now live and breathe an agricultural smorgasbord on an almost daily basis, poring over luscious apples and lumpy, bumpy squash and fat loaves of buttery brioche. In a strange way, despite the meager pay, I finally feel as if I'm where I belong.”
Source: A Second Bite at the Apple
“If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.”
Source: What I Believe
“If there is a snake in the grass, you have to set the field on fire to draw it out.”
“If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.”
“If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.”
“If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.”
Source: Notebooks, 1942-1951
“If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.”
Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.”
“If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner (how long will it be before someone starts a society for the protection of battered and maltreated objects?). Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another - from cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects. This is actually the only strong symbolic chain, the one through which a victim of the whim of a superior power passes it on to an inferior species, the whole process ending with someone taking it out on a powerless simulacrum, like a toy - and beginning no doubt with an all-powerful simulacrum, like the masked divinities which men themselves invent to justify this wretched chain.”
Source: Cool memories
“If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.”
Source: Cool memories
“If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.”
Source: Arctic Dreams
“If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.”
“If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.”
“If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.”
“If there is a strong will, there will always be a path even in the middle of precipices!”