I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.”
“If you cannot handle
The darkest pieces of her
Don't ever dare to say
That you love her!”
Source: The Forest of Feelings
“If you cannot harness the discipline needed to take control over your own life then you deserve everything that happens in your life and you forfeit the right to cry, complain and make excuses for why you are not where you want to be, have what you feel you should have and be who you want to be. As if you cannot work hard to improve yourself and your life what makes you think anyone will want to come be a part of your life if you don’t care why should they”
“If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good.”
“If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“If you cannot help but envy others, at least envy people for things such as their patience, perseverance, and tolerance.”
“If you cannot help, nothing can help you.”
“If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.
And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”
“If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.”
“If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.”
Source: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think
“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?”
“If you cannot laugh away someone mocking your god, then, my dear, you know nothing more than a tad about God.”
“If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“If you cannot lead, do not mislead.”
“If you cannot lead yourself, how can you lead others? Before leading others, you have to lead yourself first.”
“If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)
“If you cannot let go of something from your life, you cannot get something new in your life.”
“If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.”
Source: Book of Disquietude
“If you cannot live out the words that you are speaking, you cannot afford to speak.”
“If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living.”
Source: Before Night Falls
“If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.”
“If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.”
“If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.”
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches”
Source: The Gargoyle
“If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.”
“If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person.”
“If you cannot make moving pictures about yourself, your country and your culture, it's as if you do not exist anymore in this world of images we live in. Because now when we all switch on our smartphones or our iPads or our computers, it's all image and sound. All people and cultures must work to secure their place in the digital space. Cinema is also political in this way.”
“If you cannot make others think deeply, at least make them laugh hard. Do both, if you are that gifted.”
“If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.”
“If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?”
“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little kids can’t do it; babies are morally monsters — completely greedy. Their imagination has to be trained into foresight and empathy. [It's the writer's] pleasant duty is to ply the reader’s imagination with the best and purest nourishment that it can absorb.”
“If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.”
“If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably not be living in the USA.”
“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”
“If you cannot post it in social media do not send it in email. Netiquette”
“If you cannot predict the betrayal from the ones that you love and trust the most, then you are living in a fool's paradise.”
“If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!”
Source: This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood
“If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.”
“If you cannot prove it by your action(s), you do not mean it.”
“If you cannot pry from the mind of others, do you really deserve a mind of your own?”
Source: Ten Loud Rocks
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.”
Source: Painting As a Pastime
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.”
Source: Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future
“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
“If you cannot read between the lines that's already written, you're probably living the life of a lie.”
“If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.”
“If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the reading of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.”
“If you cannot realize what I have given you, you will always remember what you had given me”
“If you cannot recognize someone due to their changes (physically), close your eyes and feel them in your heart.”