I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.”
“If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that”
“If you bring electricity to a marginalized community with a simple solar power kit, it's a far greater scientific achievement than the gargantuan glories of the LHC.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out?”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“If you bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will destroy you. —THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS”
Source: Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
“If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.”
“If you bring somebody into the band you are going to be with them a lot whether it's in the studio, on the tour bus, or at dinner every night; you want somebody you enjoy being around. You don't want an annoying guy .”
“If you bring something up, it’s imperative to explain your thought.”
Source: The Art of Instant Message: Be Yourself, Be Confident, Be Successful Communicating Personality
“If you bring that male anywhere near her, I'll-'
'You'll what?' Cassian crooned, trailing her at a casual pace as she stopped perhaps five feet from me. He lifted a brow as she whirled on him. 'You won't join me for practice, so you sure as hell aren't going to hold your own in a fight. You won't talk about your powers, so you certainly aren't going to be able to wield them. And you-'
'Shut your mouth,' she snapped, every inch the conquering empress. 'I told you to stay the hell away from me, and if you-'
'You could between a male and his mate, Nesta Archeron, and you're going to learn about the consequences the hard way.'
Nesta's nostrils flared. Cassian only gave her a crooked grin.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.”
“If you bring together a person who loves the darkness so much that he can't stand the sunrise, with someone who loves the light so much that he can't stand the sunset, you will do them a great favour! Why? Because when you get stuck in an extremism, the thing that will save you from that extremism is often seeing another extremism!”
“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.”
Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
“if you broke me open, that's what you would find… passion.
in my veins, in my blood, in my dna… it's aching to catch fire….
all this passion in my chest like kerosene.”
“If you build - if you spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build a wall over, let's say, a mountain, if you build a 10-foot wall over a 10,000-foot mountain, and someone is determined to climb the 10,000-foot mountain, they're not going to be deterred by the 10-foot wall. It's a matter of common sense.”
“If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.”
“If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.”
“If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.”
“If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.”
“If you build a cloud network, people will share.”
“If you build a dam to contain the 'bad' emotions, this will also prevent the flow of the 'good' ones.
(from "How to get the best from life." page 100)”
“If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.”
“If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.”
“If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.”
“If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion”
“If you build it well, a satisfaction comes
An honor to say I built that with fidelity,
Purpose, value and integrity”
“If you build it, he will come.”
“If you build it, nerds will come.”
“If you build something valuable where there was nothing before, the increase
in value is theoretically infinite”
Source: Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
“If you build the faith to trust a friend as God, then your heart can never be broken.”
“If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
Source: Killosophy
“If you build your brand, haters will hate. Build anyway.”
“If you build your faith with the limitations as the foundation, you tend to obstruct the realization of your goals easily.”
Source: Be First: Achieve Every Dream
“if you bully then you should expect to be bullied”
“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.”
“If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.”
“If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.”
“If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while.”
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.”
“If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks.”
“If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more elementary the instruction. It can do one of two things: help you more or hurt you less. Both are good compared to the alternative.”
“If you buy a Cartier ring you want people to know it is a Cartier ring or a diamond, or a piece of art that's giving an emotion - then people read it and say, "wow that's really amazing". With prêt-à-porter you see people in the street, in a club, in a restaurant or whatever, and you think, "Oh my god, he's wearing my trousers!" In a way it's more open - people can put together the way they want - mixed with other designers.”
“If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.”
“If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems”
“If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.”
“If you buy an egg thinking it's a goose's egg, and when it hatches it is actually a bird of paradise; no manner of convincing and reproach will turn the bird of paradise into a goose. Even if you make it go to goose church and goose school and eat goose feeds and only hang out with geese! In the end, it will still belong to paradise.”
“If you buy my book at Walmart, I don't want you to read it. I want you to set it on fire. Because that's what you just did with your money. When you buy a book through an indie-store, you put some money into an independent store and owner in your community. You've put some money into someone's life and someone's livelihood, into keeping the lights on, into helping them be alive. That's a great thing.”
“If you buy something because it's undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That's hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your ass. That's a good thing.”
“If you buy the flag it's yours to burn.”
Source: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings
“If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.”