I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.”
“If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.”
“If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.”
Source: Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the power that is yours. It is not a question of the universal giving to you. It offers everything to everyone - there is no partiality.”
Source: The Secret of the Ages: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.”
“If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.”
“If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.”
“If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.”
“If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.”
“If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.”
“If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!”
“If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)
“If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.”
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.”
“If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.”
“If you have anything in your heart other than love, you've got to get it out.”
“If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.”
“If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.”
Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.”
Source: The Imperialist
“If you have appreciation for life, whether it is a planet or any wild species, if it's a human or an elephant, death is really bad for all of us to adjust to. We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level.”
“If you have arranged a free OSHA assistance visit to your facility and the management team insists on its cancellation, you are likely working in a known biologically toxic environment.”
“If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.”
Source: The Education Decree
“If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.”
Source: Enchiridion
“If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.”
Source: Enchiridion
“If you have attacked me, your children will pay for it.”
“If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.”
“If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.”
“If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.”
“If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If you have become entangled in sin from poor choices, please decide to come back now. You know how to begin. Do it now. We love you. We need you. God will help you.”
“If you have become upset by something, let this be a prompt to check on whether your expectations are realistic and helpful regarding the situation or others involved.”
“If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.”
Source: Hidden art
“If you have been battling the cannon fire, gunfire won't bother you.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If you have been born only once, you will have to die twice. But if you have been born twice, you will have to die only once (and you may even escape that one death if Jesus returns to the earth during your lifetime).”
Source: What Are You Afraid Of?
“If you have been breathing industrial gas, you may have pernicious anemia, multiple chemical sensitivity and organ damage.”
“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.”
“If you have been close to bees and heard the disturbing noise they make when they buzz in their thousands — that’s today’s music for you.”
“If you have been converted easily, or following religion of your ancestors don't think you are an innocent, you are a monkey with a fragile identity”
“If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die, what were you supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over? There were so many ways of passing the peace, and you would never know what they would have been like, those roads not taken.”
Source: So Much Life Left Over
“If you have been engaging in fraud with your workers, then you should be concerned about your future.”
“If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven.”
“If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.”
“If you have been intolerant, unkind or hurtful, you can ask God’s forgiveness, but wouldn’t it be better if you seek forgiveness and understanding from the victim or victims of your intolerance or hurtfulness?”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just want you to understand this: You are not to blame. There is nothing you did to make someone hurt you, nor is there anything you could have done differently to prevent or stop it.”
Source: To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
“If you have been saved by grace,you will stop sinning.”
“If you have been successful long enough it will frustrate you as you can open up doors for people that say they want it, doors that you had to have opened the hard way and once opened they just stare and do not walk through it”
“If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.”
Source: Autobiography
“If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!”