I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."”
“If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.”
“If you dash to fight with dharma, I will never hesitate to write your karma over your cemetery and I will never fail to write my history over your ill brain in the mortuary, upon God”
“If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.”
“If you date someone who isn't very good-looking but makes you laugh, you will never forget it.”
“If you date, you will meet your share of weirdos and jerks. That is as sure as death and taxes.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.”
“If you deal with a person with a fixed perspective, an explanation will likely trigger an argument.”
Source: Quantraz
“If you deal with every customer in the same way, you will only close 25 to 30 percent of your contacts, because you will only close one personality type. But if you learn how to effectively work with all four personality types, you can conceivably close 100 percent of your contacts.”
“If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.”
Source: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…
“If you debate the wise,
no matter how poor,
they will hearken to wisdom.
If you debate the foolish,
no matter how rich,
they will mock wisdom.”
“If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.”
“If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.”
“If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.”
Source: The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
“If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.”
“If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance.”
“If you decide that you are a winner, and if you hold that image in your mind strongly enough, you will become a winner.”
“If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.”
“If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.”
“If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.”
“If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.”
“If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.”
“If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.”
Source: If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet
“If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.”
“If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.”
“If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.”
“If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.”
“If you decide to focus on one thing at a time, instead of trying to solve everything at once, and just do that one thing, then you will feel a sudden decrease in stress.”
Source: Yes! You Can Manage Stress: Regain Control of Your Life Using the Five Habits of Effective Stress Management
“If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.”
“If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.”
Source: The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers
“If you decide to live a pure life, don't expect the world to understand your decision.”
Source: How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women
“If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.”
“If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.”
“If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“If you decide to walk for others be prepared to carry them for many miles.”
“If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.”
“If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.”
“If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.”
“If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.”
“If you decided to fall in love with the looks, make sure to fall for the eyes, because they never age.”
“If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?”
“If you declare dust as your enemy, you will guard your house 24×7 with a mop in hand. You won't be able to live in your own house peacefully.
Dust is just a phenomenon which should be given attention only when required.”
“If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax”
“If you declare yourself king of the mountains at the top of the mountains, what will you say to yourself when you come down, dwarf of the mountains? I say don't load yourself with imaginary honours!”
“If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.”
“If you deconstruct Italy, you will in the end see a grapevine, a tomato and a small boy hammering a shard of marble.”
“If you deconstruct the movies that have done well, Pixar-type movies that do incredibly well and make hundreds of millions of dollars, they have a strain of decency and conservatism that maybe even their filmmakers don't even recognize. Yet, we cross our fingers that by mistake, liberal filmmakers and liberal producers are going to by mistake make conservative movies. We have to become invested in it, or else we have no excuse to complain.”
“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”
“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.”