I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If waiting is love, can't wait is the marriage made in heaven.”
“If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.”
“If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“If want to become a person with vision, get back and reconnect to your source.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it”
“If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.”
“If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.”
“If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.”
Source: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
“If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night”
“If war explodes in Sudan, it could have a destabilizing effect that creates more space for terrorist activity that could eventually be directed at our homeland.”
“If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.”
Source: The History of Napoleon Bonaparte
“If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.”
Source: God in the Dock
“If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.”
Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“If war is the continuation of politics, then a soldier is its continuer.”
“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”
“If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total
depression.”
Source: Concept of the Corporation
“If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.”
“If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the possibility of simply getting rid of war. I'd be no more willing to let go of that than to let go of the possibility of eradicating cancer. That's not to say I'm certain we can, but I am willing to use any energy at all in the quest.”
“If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.”
“If war was once a chivalrous duel, it is now a dastardly slaughter.”
“If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.”
“If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”
“If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.”
“If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.”
“If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are, also fabricated enemies of the West along with North Korea? Or at least exaggerated threats?”
“If wars were declared by love, there would be no tears of sorrow, only tears of joy.”
“If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.”
“If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?”
“If watching a bridge is much more exciting than crossing that bridge, then you can be sure that it is a very beautiful bridge!”
“If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.”
“If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“If water could talk, there'd be some trace of all these years. It would tell of all it had taught him. How the lightest, most transparent things are heavy. How much effort it takes to contain what cannot be held; water runs through your fingers, so you find yourself empty-handed and still thirsty. But as water has no memory, no trace of his rage and loneliness will remain. He has lost those years forever.”
Source: Vita
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.”
Source: Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.”
Source: Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu
“If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.”
Source: The Road To Mecca
“If water was beer I'd be a teetotaler”
Source: Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
“If water won't smother the blaze
Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire
see if the fires will wither.”
Source: No Women in Poetry ไม่มีหญิงสาวในบทกวี
“If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.”
Source: Arguably
“If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?”
“If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case.”
“If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams”
“If we - particularly, if we peremptorily attack North Korea - that without deliberation, that North Korea will reflexively unleash all the rocketry and artillery - which they're pretty good at, by the way - on Seoul, and do as they vowed many times, to convert Seoul into a sea of fire. So, if we do something like this, this will have cataclysmic results.”
“If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.”
“If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future, because China, Germany - they're making these [clean energy] investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries. I expect those new energy sources to be built right here in the United States.”
“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.”
“If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.
Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.”
“If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.”
“If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.”
“If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.”