I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"
Saskatchewan Farmer Saying.”
“If wishes were horses, I'd need a very big stable.”
“If wishes were horses, my mortal father used to say, beggars would ride.”
Source: The Wicked King
“If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.”
“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
Source: The lollipop shoes
“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)”
“If wishes were stories, beggars would read.”
Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.”
Source: Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1
“If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.”
“If with all your power
you kissed the angel of love,
what then might happen?”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams
“If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.”
“If - with great impatience - you want the known path you are on to end immediately and new discoveries and adventures begin by embarking on an unknown path, then you have the very right spirit and excitement that is necessary for the progress of humanity!”
“If with me you'd fondly stray Over the hills and far away.”
“If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.”
“If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.”
“If with the Lord's help you cleanse your heart and uproot sin - struggling for the knowledge that is more divine and seeing in your intellect things invisible to most people - you must not on this account be arrogant towards anyone. For an angel, being incorporeal, is more pure and full of spiritual knowledge than any other created thing; yet it was an angel who, in exalting himself, fell like lightning from heaven. Thus his pride was reckoned by God as impurity. But those who dig up gold are known to all.”
“If with uncorrupted mind you feel good will for even one being, you become skilled from that. But a Noble One produces a mind of sympathy for all beings, an abundance of merit.”
“If, with your suffering, you learn a little more about humility, then everything you have been going through will surprisingly start to make sense, and the cross of the lord jesus will be your reason for pride.”
“If within seconds you can think of thoughts that are directly opposite to what you said when you say something, then you have a developed mind!”
“If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there.”
“If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.”
Source: Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) Director of Souls
“If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.”
Source: Fly By Night
“If wolves put themselves in the skin of sheep only will be for temporary, when they get fully familiar with the behavior of sheep they will destroy them with their attacks.”
“If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.”
“if woman cries ,it doesn't matter , but if a man cry it matter”
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.”
Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.”
“If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.”
“If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.”
“If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.”
“If women are diamonds or gold, then men got to be jewelry designers.”
“If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”
“If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.”
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
“If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.”
“If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“If women are the earliest sources of emotional caring and physical nurture for both female and male children, it would seem logical, from a feminist perspective at least, to pose the following questions: whether the search for love and tenderness in both sexes does not originally lead toward women; why in fact women would ever redirect that search; why species-survival, the means of impregnation, and emotional/erotic relationships should ever have become so rigidly identified with each other; and why such violent strictures should be found necessary to enforce women's total emotional, erotic loyalty and subservience to men.”
Source: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
“If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.”
“If women are to achieve sexual dominance it may be that female abusers are even more skilful than their male counterparts. It might also mean that female intimate abusers use different tactics and have different goals than the male abuser. What I have found is that the effect of female intimate abuse is different and that male victims and survivors seem to need a different response. Male victims need safety and options but they are denied these supports as the community treats male victims with an even greater degree of blame than it applies to female victims.”
Source: How He Gets Into Her Head: The Mind of the Male Intimate Abuser
“If women aren’t giving something up for love, then their obsession for, and neuroses about, love defines them more than their career ambitions. (3)”
“If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”
“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”
“If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.”
“If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?”
“If women can birth the world,
Women can run the world.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?”