I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.”
“If you are a child of God, know that every promise in the Bible is yours.”
Source: The Faith That Moves Mountains
“If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.”
“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.”
“If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.”
“If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you are a secular person, an agnostic or an atheist, you may treat the Logos as "Einstein's god," that is the factual recognition that the cosmos is ordered according to rational principles, without which science itself wouldn't be possible.”
“If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.”
Source: Your Daily Journey with God: 365 Daily Devotions
“If you are a complainer you might have already spent your HELP quota.”
Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms
“If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!”
“If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.”
“If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn't get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates.”
“If you are a cooperative animal you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in something but then a few individuals receive a much larger return, it's not a good arrangement. If it happens consistently, it's time to look for an arrangement that is more beneficial. That's why we're so sensitive to how rewards are being divided.”
“If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.”
“If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.”
“If you are a denier, get on the right side of history and stop being so gullible. Remember, it has been historically and scientifically proven, in a court of law no less, that more than 1.2 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of thousands of Polish and Russian political prisoners, were killed at Auschwitz alone. Beyond that, Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names has collected 4.5 million Jewish victims’ names (and counting) from various archival sources. How much more evidence could you possibly want?”
Source: Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
“If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone pays money for something that you designed, so it should be exactly the way you want it, exactly the way you would have chosen it. People call me a control freak, and I say, "Well, my name is on the shoe." It means the heel needs to be the way I want it and not the way somebody else wants it, and the toe needs to be exactly the way I want it, and the fabric and the material have to be exactly the way I want it. It is not a democracy - it is a dictatorship.”
“If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“If you are a dreamer come in”
Source: Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
“If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!”
“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!”
“If you are a driver of a team and have a certain set of sponsors, who is the target market for those sponsors? But, of course, it is also a question of nationality.”
“If you are a fan, you have two choices. Go to the stadium, where you see the whole beauty of it. Or stay at home, watch the beautiful moves on the slo-mo cameras. Don't go to the cinema, because you won't see it there.”
“If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living.”
“If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion.”
“If you are a foe we do not fear you, and if you are a friend your enemies shall be taught the fear of us.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued”
“If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.”
“If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.”
“If you are a friend to everybody, you're an enemy to yourself.”
“If you are a friend who always gives and doesn't receive, it doesn't mean you should kill your character of giving. No! Giving is a nature; it should be something you are, not something others force you to be.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?”
Source: Aesop's fables
“If you are a future donor recipient, remember: your family should be a part of your transformative journey. Both parties will experience growth as they find balance in your new life stage.”
Source: Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
“If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.”
“If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.”
“If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.”
“If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.”
“If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.”
“If you are a good artiste you must get work on the basis of your talent and hard work. How can a self respecting artiste do networking to get work?”
“If you are a good communicator, be unique: put yourself in your own commercials and do something a little different. To the extent you can focus on what it is you want to change, what it is you know how to change, and what it is you think will make life better for other people, you're going to do better.”
“If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.”
“If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.”
“If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract.”
“If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!”
“If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.”
“If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.”
“If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.”
“If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.”