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 moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.”
“If you are my allies - if you are my sisters and brothers, then you won't have anything to do with greed and possessions - society must be your highest concern.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.”
“If you are my friend,you are down for me at all times,not just when it's convenient.”
“If you are my reflection, then you are the person that I don't know.”
“If you are needlessly stubborn, you may lose something precious.”
Source: 단 하루도 너를 사랑하지 않은 날이 없다
“If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.”
“If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
“If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
“If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's hard to come up to it. Again I say - the only unfortunate people are the glib ones, immediately satisfied with their work. To them, the ocean is only knee-deep.”
“If you are new to practice it's important to realize that simply to sit on that cushion for fifteen minutes is a victory. Just to sit with that much composure, just to be there, is fine.”
Source: Everyday Zen: Love & Work
“If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.”
“If you are nice, nice things happen to you.”
“If you are noble, I will love
you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions.
If you are true,
but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this
not selfishly, but humbly and truly.
It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.”
Source: Self Reliance, Nature, The Transcendentalist (+Bonus Content) [ILLUSTRATED]
“If you are non controversial, none wants to know you.”
“If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.”
“If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?”
“If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.”
“If you are not a gift for your wife, you may become a gift.”
“If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell.”
“If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.”
“If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“If you are not a praying person, you are not a Christian.”
“If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.”
“If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.”
Source: Wings on my feet
“If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.”
Source: Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections
“If you are not a trend setter, at least be able to exploit the ones you see.”
“If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.”
“If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?”
“If you are not able to find peace within yourself, no one will be able to bring you peace.”
“If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?”
“If you are not able to see something, it doesn't mean that it is not there.”
“If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes “longer” is "never.”
Source: Tall Order! Seven Master Strategies to Organize Your Life and Double Your Success in Half the Time
“If you are not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.”
“If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.”
“If you are not advancing in God, this world is advancing against you.”
“If you are not afraid of a big wave, the wave will not get smaller, but your ability to defeat the wave will get bigger!”
“If you are not afraid of getting lost at all, sometimes the universe seems to respect your courage and eliminate the dangers of getting lost!”
“If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!”
“If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!”
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.”
“If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.”
“if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!”
Source: Vanity Fair, etc
“If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.”
“If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.”