I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.”
“If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.”
“If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.”
“If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos.”
“If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.”
“If where you’re going isn’t better than where you’re at, then maybe you ought to ask why you’re living your life going backwards.”
“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.”
Source: Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War
“If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.”
“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.”
“If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.”
“If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.”
“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”
“If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.”
“If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.”
“If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.”
“If Wild Bill could have made his successful dash into our lines earlier in the day, the attuck would have been made sooner, and greater results might have been expected. The Confederates had suspected him of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him too closely to allow an opportunity to get away from them sooner.”
“If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.”
Source: The Sayings of Dorothy Parker
“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.”
“If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?”
“If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable.”
“If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
“If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!”
“If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.”
“If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?”
“If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?”
“If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?”
“If winning the race won't please you, then why are you running like your life depends on it? - The Malwatch”
“If winning the war is solely defined as subduing the enemy, no war is ever really won.”
“If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.”
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
Source: Ode to the West Wind
“If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.”
“If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“If winter was not exist, the spring would not be so pleasant”
“If winter were a person, I would kill them. I would go to jail for sunshine, birds singing and the smell of fresh cut grass hmm fresh cut grass.”
“If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.”
Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays
“If wisdom is a place, you should be the wisest one to live there..”
“If wisdom is related to age, human wisdom is insignificant in the cosmic setup. Our universe is 13.8 billion years old.”
Source: Quantraz
“If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care: to whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how and when and where. Your loving mother, C. L. Ingalls.”
Source: Little Town on the Prairie
“If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.”
“If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.”
“If wish to be free from evil of sin, we must study the Scriptures.”
“If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.”
“If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner”
Source: Watchers
“If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.”
“If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean”
“If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”
Source: DUNE