I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If time stops, space makes no sense and matter vanishes away when you think of her…. then you found your lady.”
“If time travel is doable,
this quote never existed.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“If time travel is possible, then where are the tourists from the future”
Source: Physics of the Impossible
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
“If Time travel were possible, the future would have already taught the present to teach the past how to do it.”
“If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“If time was the means by which the universe prevented everything from happening at once, coincidence was the excuse it used when things occasionally did.”
Source: Smoke and Whispers
“If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right.”
Source: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.”
Source: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
“If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.”
“If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel.”
Source: The Square of Sevens
“If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...
“If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“If timing ain't everything, it's damn close”
“If Titania was gone, I’d be
devastated; who would I play all my hilarious pranks on then?”
Source: The Iron Raven
“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
“If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.”
“If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people”
Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man
“If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.”
“If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.”
Source: Basic Writings of George Washington
“If to believe in freedom and equality is to be a radical, then I am a radical.”
“If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.”
“If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.”
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.”
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”
“If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous ... let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb."
[Letter Addressed To The Addressers On The Late Proclamation, 1792 (Paine's response to the charge of "seditious libel" brought against him after the publication of The Rights of Man)]”
Source: The Thomas Paine Reader
“If to feel is to be unreliable
don't listen to us
if to be in pain is to be predictable
embittered bullying
then don't listen to us
If we're in danger of mistaking
our personal trouble for the pain on the streets
don't listen to us”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves.”
“If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.”
Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.”
Source: The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.”
Source: Complete Essays
“If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.”
Source: Rockwell Kent: the Early Years: Exhibition Bowdoin College, Museum of Art, 1969
“If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?”
“If today breaks you down, know that tomorrow will bring you a new beginning.”
“If Today I die I won't regret it,
Jewel of faith I have received now death I won't regret it,
I don't need any path when I have found my destination now death I won't it,
I don't have any expectations nor hope with anything or anyone when I have got LOVE now death I won't regret it,
My search for drunk yard has ended I have found a perfect spiritual master now death I won't regret it,
Now I don't search God in the books when I am drinking from the eyes now death I won't regret it,
To know LOVE I setout myself in the world when I am under the blaze of LOVE now death I won't regret it,
What is the need for any external decoration and beautifying things when you are in my HEART now death I won't regret it,
Don't ask Aiyaz what is LOVE! Who's LOVER I am He is inside my HEART now death I won't regret it.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“If Today I die I won't regret it,
Jewel of faith I have received now death I won't regret it,
I don't need any path when I have found my destination now death I won't regret it,
I don't have any expectations nor hope with anything or anyone when I have got LOVE now death I won't regret it,
My search for drunk yard has ended I have found a perfect spiritual master now death I won't regret it,
Now I don't search God in the books when I am drinking from the eyes now death I won't regret it,
To know LOVE I setout myself in the world when I am under the blaze of LOVE now death I won't regret it,
What is the need for any external decoration and beautifying things when you are in my HEART now death I won't regret it,
Don't ask Aiyaz what is LOVE! Who's LOVER I am He is inside my HEART now death I won't regret it.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!”
“If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.”
“If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.”
Source: My new order
“If today i was a graffiti, i would be one on a train that goes to the South of France.”
Source: running is flying intermittently
“If today is all you have to live, what will you do?”
“If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.”
“If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if today is your day,
then be happy now
for this day shall never return.”
“If today is wasted thinking of tomorrow, the same can happen tomorrow as well.”
Source: My Quest For Happy Life
“If today is your past come tomorrow, then make your past your future of today.”
Source: The doG House of Cards
“If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.”
“If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.”
Source: I Survived!: 5 Bible Characters Who Survived Disasters