I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.”
Source: How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls & Daring Young Women
“If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.”
“If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.”
“If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.”
“If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.”
“If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.”
“If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!”
“If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.”
Source: Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age
“If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.”
“If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.”
“If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?”
“If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.”
“If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.”
“If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.”
“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.”
“If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?”
“If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no need for religion.”
“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.”
“If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.”
“If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“If there were a master of stupidity in this world,
I would really love to listen to his success story.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity”
“If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from”
“If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.”
“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
(as quoted by Tony Judt)”
“If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.”
“If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.”
“If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.”
“If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.”
“If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.”
“If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.”
“If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.”
“If there were a truly existent I,
It would make sense to be afraid of certain things;
But, since there is no truly existent I,
Who is there to be afraid?”
“If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.”
“If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.”
“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”
Source: The Analects
“If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.”
“If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.”
“If there were any in China and Russia in this connection, though we both made some compromises. But these were compromises between friendly countries. I think it is almost impossible to achieve such compromise in other ways.”
“If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.”
“If there were any people safe to criticize, they'd be politicians and child molesters, doncha think?”
“If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.”
“If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.”
Source: Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day
“If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.”
“If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.”
“If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung his bell,
What would you buy?”
“If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?”
“If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I would have to weigh this evidence against the total absence of such information in either Scripture or the early church traditions. But there is no such spark-not a scintilla of evidence-anywhere in historical sources. Even where one might expect to find such claims in the bizarre, second-century, apocryphal gospels...there is no reference that Jesus ever got married.”
“If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all. --Percy Jackson”
“If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.”