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't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.”
“If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.”
“If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!”
Source: American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (Enhanced Edition): A Novel
“If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.”
Source: The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny
“If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.”
“If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.”
“If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.”
“If you can't enjoy the time between golf shots, then you are going to have a pretty difficult life because most of you life is the time spent in-between.”
“If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it.”
“If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.”
“If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.”
“If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?”
Source: The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
“If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.”
“If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.”
“If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .”
“If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.”
“If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.”
“If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.”
“If you can't fail, you can never get better.”
“If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice [Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998]. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by Carolyn Myss.”
“If you can't feed 100 just feed ONE.”
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
“If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.”
“If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby.”
“If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.”
“If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about
1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.”
“If you can't feel then why did you kiss me? Because I can feel it here, in my heart.”
“If you can't feel, why did you kiss me?" Patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. "Because I feel it here, in my heart," he said quietly.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.”
“If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?”
“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”
“If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.”
“If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?”
Source: Thwonk
“If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.”
Source: Beating the Street
“If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.”
“If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.”
Source: The Yacoubian Building
“If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.”
“If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.”
Source: Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing that Inspired My Ideas
“If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.”
“If you can't find what's unique, people aren't going to listen.”
“If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.”
“If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works.”
“If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.”
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
“If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.”
“If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.”
“If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?”
Source: Fair Coin
“If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.”
“If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.”
Source: Succeed and grow rich through persuasion