I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.”
“If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.”
“If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.”
“If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by the usual dense text and economics jargon.”
“If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.”
“If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.”
“If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.”
“If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.”
“If you doubt what you have asked for in your prayers, then you commit a big sin because you doubt the abilities of God.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
“If you doubt, you fall, you fail, you die. Do not doubt.”
Source: The Army of Five Men
“If you doubt your insight, you will doubt your information.
If you doubt your awareness, you will doubt your intellect.
If you doubt your acumen, you will doubt your perception.
If you doubt your intelligence, you will doubt your judgments.
If you doubt your understanding, you will doubt your aptitude.
If you doubt your wisdom, you will doubt your actions.
If you believe in knowledge, you believe in learning.
If you believe in learning, you believe in education.
If you believe in education, you believe in illumination.
If you believe in illumination, you believe in wisdom.
If you believe in wisdom, you believe in enlightenment.
If you believe in enlightenment, you believe in bettering the world.”
“If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?”
Source: A Gathering of Dreams
“If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.”
“If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish.”
“If you draft me, you'll never regret it.”
“If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.”
“If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator.”
“If you draw the entire timeline of humanity from the time humans first trod until today, let's just assume that's 10 feet on a timeline. My time on that timeline is so small that you couldn't point it out. Let's say it's smaller than a grain of sand, in that whole 10-foot timeline of humanity. And when I lost my hearing, it happened to coincide with human technology advancing to the point that the cochlear implant existed. If I had lost my hearing five years earlier, I would have had to quit my job. I would have lost my career. I've always been kind of in awe of that reality.”
“If you draw the full length of the blade through the fish in one gentle sweep, the resulting cross section is smooth and the cells are cleanly cut.
But if you force the blade down on the fish to cut it, the cross section becomes ragged and the cells are squashed.
If the surface of the slice is rough, more of the fish is exposed to air, and so it oxidizes faster and its flavor deteriorates.
This becomes even more apparent with water-chilled sashimi. The ragged surface of the slices allows the water to penetrate the fish and leech out its flavor."
"That's why the sashimi becomes watery and tasteless.”
Source: Japanese Cuisine
“If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?”
“If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.”
“If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.”
“If you dream and you believe, you can do it.”
“If you dream it, then you’re halfway
there. - Debra Pry”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“If you dream more than you sleep, you will get there sooner than you think.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If you dream of it, get up and Act on it.”
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”
“If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.”
“If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view.”
“If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.”
“If you dream your problems at night and live your problems by day, you are suffering the effects of paralyzing toxins delivered by the sting of worry, stress, and fear. You must detach yourself from these leeches if you do not wish to be irreversibly poisoned.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.”
“If you dress like a movie star, you have me.”
“If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.”
“If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.”
“If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.”
“If you drink enough beer, everything turns in to a bed.”
“If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.”
“If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink; but if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a non-alcoholic.”
“If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.”
“If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.”
“If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.”
Source: Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose
“If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.”
“If you drop a gold coin in mud, it does not lose its value.”
“If you drop her, she’ll break, but she’ll cut you, too. She’s tough and tender, enraged and exhausted, withdrawn and outgoing, a pessimist brimming with humanist hope.”
Source: How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
“If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.”
“If you drop the weight you are carrying, it is okay. You can build yourself back up out of the pieces.”
Source: The Wicker King