I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.”
“If World War hits this world right now in 2022. I don't know how much damage it will do to the world. But two things I can write on paper. These are damn sure.
Post war
1st, 60 to 70 percent of European countries on the new world map will disappear.
2nd, there will be an absolute new world order fully dominated by India, Russia and China.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“If worlds can change, then words must change.”
Source: The Limits of My World
“If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.”
“If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.”
“If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.”
Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 28: The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits
“If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work.”
“If worries solved problems, there would have been little or no problems.”
“If worrying were an Olympic sport, she thought ruefully, she’d have at least one gold medal, for sure.”
Source: Just This Once
“If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.”
“If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.”
“If worship does not change us it has not been worship.”
“If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle”
Source: Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]
“If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze”
Source: Wages of Love
“If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.”
“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”
“If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.”
“If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.”
“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other difference than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners under the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, provides names and addresses. Only, the Novel probes much deeper than history. It has an ideal, and History has none; it is limited by reality. The Novel also holds the stage much longer. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”
Source: Les Diaboliques
“If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.”
Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.”
Source: The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel
“If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”
“If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
“If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.”
“If writing didn't require thinking then we'd all be doing it.”
“If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.”
“If writing hurts you're doing it right.”
Source: A Book of Chrissyisms
“If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?”
Source: Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.”
Source: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.”
“If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.”
“If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.”
“If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.”
“If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story?”
“If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.”
“If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.”
“If x is conscious with y, then x is conscious. If x exists alone, then x is not conscious.”
Source: Inscriptionism
“If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y”
“If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.”
“If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.”
“If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul”
Source: The Pearls Of Lutra
“If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.”
“If ya' smell what The Rock is cookin'!”
“IF YAH DOESN’T GIVE THEM EYES TO SEE YOUR ASSIGNMENT, THEY WILL QUESTION, MISUNDERSTAND, OR MOCK YOUR MOVES. NOT YOUR BATTLE.”
“If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.”
“If ye have a choice one way or another, don’t risk it. Prepare yerself an’ then come back, stronger ‘n ever. Never pick a fight when angry; do it when ye’ve got a clear head an’ a reason to risk yer life and others. Only stand up ‘n fight when absolutely necessary, when it means saving a life rather than endangering more.”
Source: Incarnate
“If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.”
“If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.”
Source: Mr. Dooley on Ivryting and Ivrybody
“If ye love me keep my commandments”