I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.”
“If today was a flavor it would taste like beige...”
“If today was my last day, how would I want to be remembered? I want it to be said that I lived a great life and that I gave freely of my time, energy and resources; that I contributed to the greater good. I want it to be said that the world was just a little better because I was a part of it.”
“If today was my last day, how would I want to be remembered? I want it to be said that I lived a great life and that I gave freely of my time, energy and resources; that I contributed to the greater good. I want it to said that the world was just a little better because I was a part of it.”
“If Today, We Pay no heed to the Environment's Cries,
Then Tomorrow, Our Posterity Would Pay no heed to Our cries.”
“If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.”
“If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change.”
“If today were your final day of this life, would those things causing you stress still do so?”
“If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?”
Source: Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours
“If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? Then do so! Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.”
Source: Make Every Day Count - Teen Edition
“If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.”
“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.”
“If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today”
“If today you have nothing to be happy about, thank God for the potential of tomorrow.”
“If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.”
Source: The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer
“If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.”
“If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.”
Source: God of jane: a psychic manifesto
“If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.”
“If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.”
“If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.”
“If Tolstoy cannot admire marriage, at least he is healthy enough to admire mud”
Source: Heretics
“If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).”
Source: Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel
“If tomorrow all the bridges disappear in the world, then we can learn perfectly how very useful they were! Losing something is an excellent teacher!”
“If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life, And I had to start a new one with just my children and my wife, I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today, 'Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away. And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free.”
Source: God bless the U.S.A. gift book
“If tomorrow brings new hope, I hope it brings back your sensuality.”
“If tomorrow doesn't happen, would you still do what you're about to do today? If that answer is no, you're alive, but you're not living.”
“If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through a referendum. A”
“If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.”
“If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?”
“If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.”
“If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”
“If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!”
“If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.”
“If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!”
“If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."”
“If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have paid a mighty price. Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party. And too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they've been left behind. We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great.”
“If Tony hadn't been fearful, hadn't counted on the approval of others for his own self-approval . . . and so on, through a succession of hypotheticals leading to the final one: so, for instance, if Tony hadn't been Tony.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“If too little glucose is available in your blood, which is what happens when you follow a low - carbohydrate diet, then your liver hoards glucose so that your brain, which needs glucose to function, doesn't starve. While your body will start to break down fat to use as fuel, your brain can't run that way for long, and it will send out the Bat-Signal for more calories. That's the reason why when you skip a meal or go too long between meals, you find yourself running to the nearest donut or bag of chips.”
Source: The Wellness Remodel: A Guide to Rebooting How You Eat, Move, and Feed Your Soul
“If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.”
“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.”
“If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.”
“If tournament popularity was the most important consideration, then I think we would create a Smash Bros game that included a multitude of fast moves with complicated controls. However, I believe this is actually the greatest shortcoming of fighting games at present, and that is the reason why I don’t do it.”
“If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.”
Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.”
“If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.”
“If traditional myths of origin raise more questions than they answer, we should not be surprised that a scientific myth of origin should do the same. Science is nothing if not the continuous asking of new questions.”
Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
“If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn't appreciate the magic.”
“If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.”
“If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.”