I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.”
“If you created the map, you’ll probably never find the road.”
“If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.”
“If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.”
“If you criticize others' ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.”
“If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.”
“If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.”
“If you cross a pickle with a female deer...You get a dill-doe!”
“If you cross an onion with a UFO, what you get is a flying saucer that brings tears to your eyes.”
“If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Ailes who will go after youThe person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen, trust me.”
“If you cross paths with a woman that you think is a boss chick, instead of hating on her, find a way to click up so that the two of you can empower others and change the world.”
“If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.”
Source: North America
“If you cross the desert midday and call the sand cool, it will still burn your feet. To my thinking, the one who should feel foolish is the one who called the sand cool, not the sand itself. The sand will keep doing what it should be doing.”
“If you cross the Halys, you will destroy a great empire.”
“If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.”
“If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.”
Source: Humility: True Greatness
“If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?”
“If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.”
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
“If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.”
“If you cry too much on screen, you're crying for the audience.”
“If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.”
“If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.”
“If you cultivate inner peace, flowers of happiness will grow in your garden to spread the fragrance of peace all over the world.”
“If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.”
“If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.”
“If you cup your hands and stare into them, you will find a handful of the seeds of your own destruction ready to be sown. And if you don’t see any, you’re either blind or you’ve already sown them.”
“If you currently travel abroad or plan to in the future, make sure you understand the cultural convention of the country that you are visiting. Particularly with regard to greetings. If someone gives you a weak hand-shake, don't grimace. If anyone takes your arm, don't wince. If you are in the Middle East and a person wants to hold your hand, hold it. If you are a man visiting Russia, don't be surprised when your male host kisses your cheek, rather than hand. All of these greetings are as natural as way to express genuine sentiments as an American handshake. I am honored when an Arab or Asian man offers to take my hand because I know that it is a sign of high respect and trust. Accepting these cultural differences is the first step to better understanding and embracing diversity.”
Source: What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
“If you curse the hand that feeds you then do not complain the day you sleep hungry. In other words; do not curse the alligator (or crocodile) before crossing the river.”
“If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.”
“If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.”
“If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.”
Source: The Virgin and the Gipsy
“If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.”
“If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.”
“If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.”
“If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!”
“If you cut Jamie Carragher open, he'll bleed red.”
“If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.”
“If you cut off my hands, I'll write with my feet, and if you cut off my feet, I'll write with my nose, and if you cut that off, you may as well cut my whole head off, because no matter how you slice and dice me, you can't control what I think, or what I feel. You can keep me locked up for the rest of my life, however brief that may be. But you will never, ever own me.”
Source: Menagerie
“If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?”
“If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.”
“If you cut taxes on the rich, they'll get so excited and go into so much busy economic activity, that the economy will grow and your tax revenues will actually rise. So cut taxes, collect more taxes. It is a miracle.”
“If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.”
“If you'd been born and raised in Palestine, you'd know that some people are born to suffer. And it never stops, for them. Not for a second. You'd know where real suffering comes from. It's the same place where love and freedom and pride are born.”
Source: Shantaram
“If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.”
Source: Put That in Writing
“If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.”
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.”
“If you'd died on me, I would've taken it out on your corpse.”
Raven Heartstone Celenti to Paladin Carison Destine”
Source: Dragonslayer No More? (Paranormal Mystery, Suspense and Drama, Epic Adventure)
“If you'd ever shaken hands with an earthquake you'd understand I'm an entity of trembling infinities beneath everything you see.”
“If you'd heard me the first time I said it twice, I wouldn't have had to say it again.”