I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.”
“If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.”
“If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, the FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.”
“If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.”
“If these the Times, then this must be the Man.
[Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]”
“If these three genders (veds) were not involved in the play of nature, then you would be able to remain separate in the worldly life for sure. All the play is within the three genders (ved). If these three were regarded as food (nourishment), then there was no problem. But they have been called sufferings (ved).”
Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy
“If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.”
“If these two are tired of having sex with each other, what hope is there for the rest of us?”
“If these two couldn't divorce why on earth would we expect them to get married?”
“If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.”
“If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names.”
Source: We Need New Names
“If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.”
Source: Just One Day
“If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.”
“If these were my last moments on earth, I’d spend them fighting to save him with everything I had. If our roles were reversed, I knew he’d do the same".”
“If these were normal times, I could tell you, with absolute certainty, these proceedings are unconstitutional and will be dismissed or withdrawn. But these are not normal times. For the first time in my lifetime, we have a president who I consider openly bigoted.”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“If these were times when the psychic was not looked upon as something surrounded with an unsientific aura - that is to say, a subject about which nothing raitonally concrete can be stated and hence one to be treated with smiles and gentle waggings of the head - my task would be a much easier one. But the harshness of our materialistic age is such that I suppose we cannot be blamed at that which does not conform with the physical laws that drive us on day after day in our blind, itching urge for survival. What can we prove about ghosts and ectoplasm and all the rest of it!”
Source: My Bones and My Flute
“If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.”
“If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.”
“If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.”
“If they [at the audition] don't like the way you sound they won't buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.”
“If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature that gives us life, we have a chance.”
“If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.”
Source: Essay on the Theory of the Earth
“If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.”
“If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.”
“If they [mexicans] cross the border, I think, and they are violating the law, then that word criminal does connect with that violation, so if they're violating the law, I guess you can call them criminals. We call everybody else criminals that violate the law.”
“If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!”
“If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.”
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”
“If they [Playboy] could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.”
“If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.”
“If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.”
“If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.”
Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work
“If they accept me, they accept all of us. If they reject me, I'm going to burden you until you figure out what to do with me."
"I would give all the stolen crowns in the world for you to burden me," Flynn said--- giving his old, devilish smile at the end.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“If they advanced too much further technologically, those advances would inevitably intrude on their humanity. People wanted to walk. They wanted to take the bus that smelled like cigarettes. They wanted those precious three minutes between asking a question and knowing the answer.”
Source: 17776: What football will look like in the future
“If they always convince you to do what they want you to do without caring about how you feel, then they are not loving you they are controlling you.”
“If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.”
“If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.”
Source: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
“If they are awake while everyone else was sleeping, what on earth were they doing?”
Source: The Freedom Artist
“if they are for you… you'll feel it in your chest walls.”
“If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.”
“If they are happy without you then you need to learn to be happy without them too.”
“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”
“If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,' she says, 'you won't have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.'”
“If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“If they are jealous of you, give them more reasons to stay jealous.”
“If they are just, they are better than clever.”
Source: Sophocles
“If they are not an advanced race from the future, are we dealing instead with a parallel universe, another dimension where there are other human races living, and where we may go at our expense, never to return to the present? From that mysterious universe, are higher beings projecting objects that can materialize and dematerialize at will? Are UFOS "windows" rather than "objects"?”
“If they are not lying about you, they are lying about themselves. If they are not lying about what is happening, they are lying about something else. When you have had bad parenting or upbringing, you were raised with hate and lies. All you do is hate and lie.”
“If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.”
“If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.”