I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.”
“If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.”
Source: World Within The Word
“If there were ghosts in Harrenhal, they never troubled her. It was the living men she feared,”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”
“If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.”
“If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.”
“If there were lessons to be learnt from the East Pakistan/ Bangladesh fiasco, Pakistan’s civil and military leaders did not learn them. Instead of recognizing the inadequacy of the two nation theory, religious ideology and brute force in keeping the country together, the break-up was rationalized as the result of Indian hostility, malfeasance of Pakistani politicians, and the geographic remoteness of the eastern wing.”
“If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we’d never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.”
Source: Bad Glass: A Novel
“If there were mass atrocities right down to the last days of communism, why did not the newly installed anticommunist regimes seize the opportunity to bring erstwhile communist rulers to justice? Why no Nuremberg-style public trials documenting widespread atrocities? Why were not hundreds of party leaders and security officials and thousands of camp guards rounded up and tried for the millions they supposedly exterminated? The best the West Germans could do was charge East German leader Erich Honecker, several other officials, and seven border guards with shooting people who tried to escape over the Berlin Wall, a serious charge but hardly indicative of a gulag.”
Source: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?”
“If there were more "Planned Parenthoods," there'd be fewer abortions.”
“If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.”
“If there were more women heads of state in the world, the world would be more peaceful and better focused on the improvement of the overall quality of life and welfare.”
“If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.”
“If there were no
cherry blossoms
in this world
How much more tranquil
our hearts would be in spring.”
“If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc
“If there were no beginnings and if there were no endings, we would have the absence of inertia and the presence of stagnation.”
“If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence. Stop for a moment and imagine what this world would be like without consequence and fear. Imagine what we could, what we would do. I dare not think of such a nightmare for it could only be born in pain.”
“If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.”
“If there were no consequences, he would surely chuck his phone at the person pressing the doorbell. But Ran lived in a world shaped by choices and consequences, so he chose to answer the phone. He wanted to believe that he had a choice between the two most unpleasant things that could happen simultaneously.”
Source: Our Funny Love Story
“If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.”
“If there were no controls on the internet - and I shudder to think at letting certain people have control of it. It is content related. Ultimately what they want to control and police is the content. They're liberals! They want to eliminate opposing points of view. They do it with political correctness, which is censorship. They do it in the Drive-By Media by simply ignoring all kinds of news that is not palatable or it conflicts with their worldview, they just ignore it and don't even cover it. It's inarguable.”
“If there were no E.L.F, Super Junior wouldn't exist.”
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”
Source: Fear and Trembling
“If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.”
“If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works
“If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry”
Source: My Ántonia
“If there were no God, he would have to be invented.”
Source: The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
“If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.”
Source: The Worthing Saga
“If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.”
“If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.”
Source: Collected Works
“If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.”
“If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?”
“If there were no Love, there'd be no grief”
“If there were no motion, not only would all objects stop but disappear. Motion is vital to energy and matter; it is their life, their l'énergie spirituelle, to use Bergson’s term. To put it simply, no motion, no mass. Motion equals mass, in a way. Concentration and “quantity” of motion from the micro to the macro level equals the quantity of mass. The bigger the total output of motion from the micro point to the measured point, the bigger the mass. The whole family of the Universe (Omniverse) is kept alive and together owing to the primordial Universal immaterial Source—Ultimate Force feeding motion and the whole of the Universe and existence with its underlying force—Ultimate Reality and the basis of Everything.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If there were no mountains, humanity would be much lazier! Challenges make people hardworking!”
“If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?”
“If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.”
“If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.”
Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
“If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.”
“If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.”
“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.”