I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative before you know it. Know when to close the account. It's always better to be alone with dignity than in a relationship that constantly requires you to sacrifice your happiness and self-respect.”
“If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.”
“If you allow people to waste your time, you will miss out on a good life.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your meditation experience.”
“If you allow sharks to dictate your decisions, they will try to exert their will on you more and more.”
Source: Shark Proof: How to Deal with Difficult People
“If you allow someone else to convert more time than you in your chosen territory, you automatically become a servant or a second class citizen in that territory and whoever it is who converted more time than you in that territory becomes your king and will lord it over you in that territory.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons. He poison-gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people. So this is a way to save lives and to save the stability and peace of a region of the world that is important to the peace and security of the entire world.”
“If you allow someone to control you, you surrender part of your power to them.”
Source: The Talking Stick Diaries: Embody Your Power
“If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.”
“If you allow the opinion of others to influence you, you will be doing great damage to yourself.
You see, some people have a little light and they will want to keep your own from shinning too bright.
The opinion of others is not a reflection of who you are but a reflection of who they are.
Don't be influence by negativity.”
“If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“If you allow your fear to conquer your heart, you will never accomplish anything in life.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 2
“If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.”
Source: Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore
“If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.”
“If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“If you allow your wounds to stop you from working on your dreams, you will eventually look back and realize you lost time. More wounds will come from regretting the time you wasted in the past. Focus on healing your inner wounds now, and then strive for new opportunities in life.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“If you allow yourself to be removed from a public area by an abductor, there is a high probability you will never be seen again.”
“If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered”
“If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.”
“If you allow yourself to experience the present moment, you will discover that it does not get better than this Paradise is here and now, waiting for you to arrive, to accept, to surrender, and to enjoy.”
Source: The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration
“If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.”
“If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.”
“If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.”
“If you allow yourself to go through the pain, you will find healing.”
“If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.”
“If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.”
“If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.”
Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“If you already are everything, everywhere, always, there is nowhere to go and nothing to be.(...) No limitation, no story. No story, no Being.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“If you already hate tofu, the term "tofu skin" is probably an effective emetic. But this stuff is addictive. You start by making fresh soy milk. I'm not going to soft-pedal how much work this is: you have to soak, grind, squeeze, and simmer dried soybeans. The result is a thick milk entirely unlike the soy milk you get in a box at Whole Foods in the same way Parmigiano-Reggiano is unlike Velveeta.
Then, to make tofu skins (yuba in Japanese), you simmer the soy milk gently over low heat until a skin forms on the surface, then pluck it off with your fingers and drape it over a chopstick to dry. It is exactly like the skin that forms on top of pudding, the one George Costanza wanted to market as Pudding Skin Singles. Yuba doesn't look like much- like a pile of discarded raw chicken skin, honestly. But the texture is toothsome, and with each bite you're rewarded with the flavor of fresh soy milk. It's best served with just a few drops of soy sauce and maybe some grated ginger or sliced negi.
"I'm kind of obsessed with tofu skins right now," said Iris, poking her head into the fridge to grab a round of yuba. Me too.
In Seattle, I had to buy, grind, boil, and otherwise toil for a few sheets of yuba. In Tokyo, I found it at Life Supermarket, sold in a single-serving plastic tub with a foil top. The yuba wasn't as snappy or flavorful as homemade, but it had that characteristic fresh-soy aroma, which to me smells like a combination of "healthy forest" and "clean baby." Iris and I ate it greedily. (The yuba, not the baby.)
Yuba isn't technically tofu, because the soy milk isn't coagulated. Japanese tofu comes in two basic categories, much like underpants: cotton (momen) and silken (kinugoshi). Cotton tofu is the kind eaten most commonly in the U.S.; if you buy a package of extra-firm tofu and cut it up for stir-frying, that's definitely cotton tofu.
Silken tofu is fragile, creamier and more dairy-like than cotton-tofu, and it's the star of my favorite summer tofu dish. Hiya yakko is cubes of tofu, usually silken, drizzled with soy sauce and judiciously topped with savory bits: grated ginger or daikon, bonito flakes, negi. It's popular in Japanese bars and easy to make at home, which I did, with (you will be shocked to hear) tons of fresh negi.”
Source: Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
“If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.”
Source: Culture and Value
“If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?”
“If you already know all the answers, you can't ask questions.”
Source: Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving
“If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you're thinking too small.”
“If you already know the answer, why are you trying to make me say it?"
"Because I'm a girl, an that's what we do.”
Source: Things Liars Say
“If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don’t waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.” -Barrons”
“If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.”
“If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.”
“If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.”
“If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.”
“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”
“If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now.”
Source: The Council
“If you always do "just enough" you'll never have more than enough.”
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
“If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.”
“If you always do what you always did, you will always do what you always did.
-Emit Eht”
Source: Emit Eht
“If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.”
“If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.”
Source: Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence in Managing Projects, Teams, and Organizations
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”
“If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.”
“If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?”