I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If Valentine was a saint, chances are he died single and unmarried.”
“If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.”
Source: The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley
“If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.”
“If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday”
“If Van Gogh were walking around, everyone would run away because he had no ear, but if he was holding his paintings they would be nice to him. She's holding her paintings and she's good at it.”
Source: Providence
“If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.”
“If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.”
“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.”
“If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.”
“If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat”
“If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.”
Source: The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume
“If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.”
“If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.”
Source: The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh
“If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.”
Source: Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel
“If Villa got another goal now it would change the scoreline completely.”
“If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound. If Jack Buck were around today, I don't think anybody would ask him to change his style. My style has always been a little bit of a combination of old and new, if only because my frame of reference, personally, was different than that of Ernie Harwell or Jack Buck or Harry Caray. I was a younger guy. Just as Joe Buck's frame of reference is somewhat different from mine. But the nuts and bolts of how to call a ballgame well, I think remain the same.”
“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”
“If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.”
“If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.”
“If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.”
Source: Black Like Me
“If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“If virtue must be discarded on the altar of happiness, then so be it.”
Source: Earthflown
“If virtue precede us every step will be safe.”
“If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.”
“If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“If virulent germs were normal in the atmosphere, how numerous would be the occasions for their penetration independently by way of the lungs and intestinal mucus! There would not be a wound, however slight, the prick even of a pin, that would not be the occasion for infecting us with smallpox, typhus, syphilis, gonorrhoea.”
“If virulent germs were normal in the atmosphere, how numerous would be the occasions for their penetration independently by way of the lungs and intestinal mucus! There would not be a wound, however slight, the prick even of a pin, that would not be the occasion for infecting us with smallpox, typhus, syphilis, gonorrhoea.
--as quoted in Béchamp or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology By Ethel D. Hume on page 308 [prefaced by Pasteur: Plagiarist, Imposter: The Germ Theory Exploded By R. B. Pearson], ISBN# 978-1-46790-012-6, 2011”
“If Vladimir Putin is conscious and aware of his standing in the world economy, he has to understand this aggression in Crimea is not helping the reputation of Russia as a modern nation where you can do business. He's back to the old Soviet ways and a lot of folks are going to hold back and pull back as a result of it. I think he may have second thoughts.”
“If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.”
“If voices had colour, hers would have been like a rainbow. It made words LIVE. Whatever she said became a breathing entity, not a mere verbal statement or utterance.”
“If Vorbis was right, and there was a kind of light that made darkness visible, then down there was its opposite, the darkness where no light could ever reach: darkness that blackened light, He thought of blind Didactylos and his empty lantern.”
Source: Small Gods
“If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It”
Source: You Can't Say That: Memoirs
“If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.”
“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
“If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.”
“If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.”
“If voting didn’t matter much, foreign governments wouldn’t try to influence it. And if voting didn’t matter much, we wouldn’t see efforts in America to make it harder for certain people to vote. Your vote does matter.”
Source: What You Need to Know About Voting—and Why
“If voting doesn't change anything, it is just a drama of democracy.”
“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
“If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?”
“If vou choose the airline of autonomy you're going to have to end up where you don't want to be, illogical, immoral, unfree with no dignity. And at that point the choice is between life and death. Spiritual life and death, moral life and death, intellectual life and death.”
“If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.”
“If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.”
Source: Faefever: Fever Series
“If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.”
“If wait long enough, someone will eventually sell you the end product of what would have been the reality of your dream.”