I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If women were totally satisfied with their sexual and lovemaking experiences, women would welcome the lovemaking experience as much as men.”
“If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'”
“If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.”
“If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.”
“If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.”
Source: Fountain of Age
“If Woodstock happened today, you would be invited on social media. Websites would livestream it. Rolling Stone would not cover it. You would read “The 5 Craziest Parts of Woodstock (Number 4 Will SHOCK You).” Instead of lighters, we would hold up cell phones, so we could record the moment instead of inhabiting it.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.”
“If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.”
“If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.”
“If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a man to ignore a naked challenge to his authority. The Mongol army moved and millions would die.”
Source: Bones of the Hills
“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life.”
“If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.”
Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
“If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.”
“If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present minute.
If words are to be sounded, impress through the partition in ever slight measure to the other side the other signature the other hearing the other speech the other grasp.”
“If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.”
“If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.”
“If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.”
“If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.”
“If words could express the grief of my heart,
Even the stones would weep.”
“If words could water, I wonder what mine would do — blossom flowers or burn gardens?”
Source: The Weight of Tender Things
“If words didn't exist, self-expression would be limited.”
“If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.”
“If words fail, let sensuality talk.”
“If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have”
Source: The Memory Chalet
“If words frighten you, you should be asking the question: Why?”
“If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, not the young explorer's emotions. Yet through this austerity one felt the kindling imagination, the ardour and excitement of the boy, like the vibration in a voice when the speaker strives to conceal his emotion by using only the conventional phrases.”
Source: The Professor's House
“If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.”
Source: The Storyteller
“If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.”
Source: The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)
“If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.”
Source: The Art of War
“If words,
poetry and art
are also measured
as wealth; OMG,
she has made me rich
(I have monetized
our encounter,
feelings plus moments
now memories)”
“If words suffice not, blows must follow.”
Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection
“If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.”
“If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.”
“If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.”
“If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.”
Source: Life Work
“If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother.”
Source: Your Maternity Leave
“If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?”
“If work isn’t fun, you’re not playing on the right team.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.”
“If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.”
“If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.”
“If workers are overworked, or companies hire temps at low wages, this fundamentally comes down to the quality of life for a person. It's bigger than wages. They should be able to spend time with their families. And if they're single, they should be able to have fun and not spend every day of their life working 12 to 15 hours a day and never get a chance to take care of their well-being. To me, that's part of living a good life.”
“If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.”
“If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.”
“If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?”
“If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.”
“If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.”