I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?”
“If you commit then struggle to fulfill it at any cost otherwise regret it.”
“If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.”
“If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.”
“If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.”
“If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.”
“If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.”
“If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.”
“If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by people, because it sided with the monarchs. It instituted the Inquisition and became part of the repressive state apparatus. That never happened here. We don't have that history.”
Source: Collected Papers
“If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
“If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.”
“If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.”
“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”
“If you complain that Allah is testing you too much, you're failing the test.”
“If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.”
“If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.”
“If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.”
“If you comprehend, it is not God.”
“If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.”
“If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.”
“If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.”
“If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.”
“If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.”
“If you compromise your core values, you go nowhere.”
“If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.”
“If you concentrate on small, manageable steps you can cross unimaginable distances.”
“If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.”
“If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.”
“If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.”
“If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!”
“If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.”
“If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.”
“If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.”
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
“If you confess your faults, God will forgive you.”
“If you confess your sins, God will cleanse you.”
“If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back.”
Source: Finding Miss Sunshine: How the Worst News of My Teenage Life Sent Me on One Giant Adventure Back to Health
“If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.”
“If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.”
Source: Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas
“If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society.”
“If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.”
Source: Dame Agatha abroad
“If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse would be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is inteded for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person.”
Source: Gilead
“If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.”
“If you connect with someone just once, that's something. But if you can connect twice, that's something else.”
“If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world”
“If you consciously let your body take care of you, it will become your greatest ally and trusted partner.”
Source: What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul
“If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.”
“If you consciously send negative energy toward someone, then what you send is exactly what you will attract upon yourself in your own life.”
“If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched her
maybe you should take a looks at your hands.”
“If you consider almost every evil character in Disney movies, you can’t help but see the narcissistic tendencies. I love Disney, but suddenly I feel groomed to believe evil would be some green-faced witch, rather than my own mother.”