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 vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.”
“If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.”
Source: Sleeping in Flame
“If you are very religious, and your religion teaches you that conception equals a baby, I don't know how I'm ever going to win you over to my side.”
“If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.”
“If you are visiting someone and his wife feeds you a wonderful meal, you should be grateful but you should not wish that it would be nice if she could go home with you. Having such intents towards food and eating leads one to become increasingly possessed with turmoil (worldly suffering). This is why the Lord has said for us to enjoy but not become the enjoyer, to do something which we like but do not become habituated about it.”
“If you are visiting the capital on a budget, the US Congress has a more successful farce exhibition than anywhere in the Washington DC art district and tickets are free.”
“If you are vulnerable to gender issues, working or living at high altitudes may bring on Gender Dysphoria (GD).”
“If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much.”
“If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.”
“If you are waiting for a message, know that it is already moving through you. You do not have to think. You do not have to know. You do not have to understand. All you have to do is release and go with the flow.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex
“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.”
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex
“If you are waiting for approval to live your life, I am sorry none is forthcoming”
“If you are waiting for somebody to create something, consider that you may be that somebody, and the world is waiting for you.”
Source: Find Your Why
“If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.”
“If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you are waiting to be fed, you will wait forever. You must learn to feed yourself.”
“If you are waiting to be taught you will wait forever, learn to teach yourself by your own trials in the test of time.”
“If you are waiting to gain power to do something; then there is no difference between you and an unborn child.”
“If you are waking up in the middle of the night vomiting, you should be suspecting that you may have had a biologically toxic electro-magnetic interference (EMI) exposure during the daytime.”
“If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.”
“If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.”
“If you are walking in silence without disturbing the silence then you really love the silence!”
“If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go”
“If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.”
“If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.”
Source: Selected works of Janusz Korczak
“If you are watching my films and wondering, am I missing humorous speak because I'm not Korean? Am I missing out? You don't have to worry, because you're only missing probably about a few cents worth out of your ticket price.”
“If you are way too occupied to spend time with elderly people, then I believe you must have occult powers to die young.”
“If you are weak enough to fall, you are strong enough to rise back up. Weakness and strength come from the same place, and both are necessary. Both provide purpose, and both can lead to destruction or salvation. You just need to increase the chaos.”
“If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.”
Source: Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games
“If you are weak…. It is ok. Because you can get variety of opportunities to strengthen yourself……you can have several chances to become a stronger individual. But if you are a hater you only have one opportunity to keep being weaker day after day.”
“If you are weak, then you will derive strength from stripping those you fear of all the prestige they pretend to possess.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“If you are weak, anyone can come and kick you”
“If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.”
“If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair. It wastes a lot of time and energy and effort to comply with it. It doesn't encourage savings and investment. And we need to simply it and make it more fair.”
“If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.”
“If you are wearing a bandana you better have something wise to say, because you are starting with a credibility deficit.”
“If you are wearing clothes that you enjoy wearing, everything you do in life becomes fun.”
“If you are wearing yellow goggles, every blue thing will appear green to you. It is your perception, and it is your reality.”
“If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.”
Source: Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach
“If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!”
“If you are well educated, and especially if you are a health professional, you will have to unlearn much of what you've been taught and start afresh with the rather disruptive thought that natural healing may actually work.”
“If you are well, work well.”
“If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)”
Source: Spirit of Islam
“If you are what they call a "person of color," it seems your path will be beset with more challenges, setbacks, and villains than the rest. In addition to climate change, cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, and hypertension, this thing called racism--which some claim no longer exists--apparently also kills. Men of color, especially Black men and especially those who are poor, die younger than the rest.”
Source: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
“If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.”
Source: Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“If you are what you eat then feed me dope.”
“If you are what you eat, then why aren’t you what you desire?"
Desire stands in the great no-man’s land of human activity: the zone of most conflict, fear, and anxiety. It scares us. We are often asked to hate it—by those who claim to have given it up for “better” things, and who often, hypocritically, haven’t.”
“If you are what you eat, in my case, I'd be sweet so come and get some.”
“If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.”