I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you can write it, I can be it.”
“If you can write like Matthew, Mark, Luke or John Lennon then I will read it”
“If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.”
“If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.”
Source: The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One
“If you can't afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you've got to be sick. You're stupid.”
“If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.”
Source: Attempting Normal
“If you can't afford to take care of your # veterans , then don't go to war.”
“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
“If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
“If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.”
“If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight”
Source: Faking It
“If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.”
Source: Spiritual Midwifery
“If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”
“If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.”
“If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.”
“If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.”
“If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat.”
“If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.”
“If you can't be direct, why be?”
“If you can't be disciplined, be clever.”
“If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.”
“If you can't be free, be a mystery.”
“If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.”
“If you can't be good, be good at it!”
“If you can't be good, be loud.”
“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”
Source: Can You Keep a Secret?
“If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.”
“If you can't be kind, at least be vague.”
“If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.”
“If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went to high school with came to middle age as frumps, because they just got by with their pretty faces, so they never developed anything. They never learned how to be interesting. But if you are bereft of certain things, you have to make up for them in certain ways. Don't you think?”
“If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.”
“If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?”
“If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
Source: Vorkosigan's Game
“If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.”
“If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.”
“If you can't be the best than be different”
“If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.”
“If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not”
“If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with”
“If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.”
“If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?”
Source: Memoirs
“If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.”
“If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.”
“If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.”
“If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!”
“If you can't beat 'em, join 'em... then beat 'em.”
“If you can't beat them (Packers), You might as well join them”
“If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?”