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 put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus.”
Source: Until Christ Returns: Living Faithfully Today While We Wait for Our Glorious Tomorrow
“If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus. Nothing is going to happen - ever - that will catch Jesus Christ by surprise. He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.”
“If you have questions about how people earn their wealth, for crying out loud, the Clintons have a way of doing it that virtually nobody else could parlay.”
“If you have quick verbal skills, use humor to deflect attacks. A quip instead of a counterattack can ease tension, reduce the impact of the other person's aggression, and help build the relationship. When in doubt, use self-deprecating humor such as, “Oh, I see, all you want me to do is to cave in, go belly up, and hand you everything you want. I guess I must come across as the weakest player in the universe.” And with tough bargainers, don't give in too soon; otherwise they might worry that they could have gained more and left too much on the table. In such cases, you must let them believe that they have wrested every last concession from you.”
Source: Influence Without Authority
“If you have ran out of lung ventilators, please give mine to someone under forty with COVID-19.”
“If you have reached a place that everyone else has reached, don't expect any appreciation! But if you have reached a place that no one else has reached, then you don't need to wait for appreciation anyway, you will be greatly appreciated!”
“If you have reached the point where you're certain that person has no conscience, or is in it to win rather than to love you, then the very best thing you can do is to get away. That's a very hard lesson to learn, and, furthermore, it's not always possible.”
“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.”
“If you have read many adventure novels, you'll know that spies spend about half of their time in the sewers. They run along sewer tunnels, shooting. They find secret hideaways in sewers. They take weird funeral barges through sewers, poled along by old men in hoods. In fact, if a spy's kid wants to get a message to their mom or dad, the easiest way to do it is just to flush it down the toilet.”
Source: Agent Q, or The Smell of Danger!
“If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have not - then you know we have reached the thirteenth chapter of the thirteenth volume in this sad history, and so you know the end is near, even though this chapter is so lengthy that you might never reach the end of it. But perhaps you do not yet know what the end really means. "The end" is a phrase which refers to the completion of a story, or the final moment of some accomplishment, such as a secret errand, or a great deal of research, and indeed this thirteenth volume marks the completion of my investigation into the Baudelaire case, which required much research, a great many secret errands, and the accomplishments of a number of my comrades, from a trolley driver to a botanical hybridization expert, with many, many typewriter repairpeople in between. But it cannot be said that The End contains the end of the Baudelaires' story, any more than The Bad Beginning contained its beginning. The children's story began long before that terrible day on Briny Beach, but there would have to be another volume to chronicle when the Baudelaires were born, and when their parents married, and who was playing the violin in the candlelit restaurant when the Baudelaire parents first laid eyes on one another, and what was hidden inside that violin, and the childhood of the man who orphaned the girl who put it there, and even then it could not be said that the Baudelaires' story had not begun, because you would still need to know about a certain tea party held in a penthouse suite, and the baker who made the scones served at the tea party, and the baker's assistant who smuggled the secret ingredient into the scone batter through a very narrow drainpipe, and how a crafty volunteer created the illusion of a fire in the kitchen simply by wearing a certain dress and jumping around, and even then the beginning of the story would be as far away as the shipwreck that leftthe Baudelaire parents as castaways on the coastal shelf is far away from the outrigger on which the islanders would depart. One could say, in fact, that no story really has a beginning, and that no story really has an end, as all of the world's stories are as jumbled as the items in the arboretum, with their details and secrets all heaped together so that the whole story, from beginning to end, depends on how you look at it. We might even say that the world is always in medias res - a Latin phrase which means "in the midst of things" or "in the middle of a narrative" - and that it is impossible to solve any mystery, or find the root of any trouble, and so The End is really the middle of the story, as many people in this history will live long past the close of Chapter Thirteen, or even the beginning of the story, as a new child arrives in the world at the chapter's close. But one cannot sit in the midst of things forever. Eventually one must face that the end is near, and the end of The End is quite near indeed, so if I were you I would not read the end of The End, as it contains the end of a notorious villain but also the end of a brave and noble sibling, and the end of the colonists' stay on the island, as they sail off the end of the coastal shelf. The end of The End contains all these ends, and that does not depend on how you look at it, so it might be best for you to stop looking at The End before the end of The End arrives, and to stop reading The End before you read the end, as the stories that end in The End that began in The Bad Beginning are beginning to end now.”
Source: The End
“If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.”
“If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.”
“If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.”
“If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“If you have reason to suspect that a person is telling you a lie, look as though you believed every world he said. This will give him courage to go on; he will become vehement in his assertions, and in the end betray himself.
Again, if you perceive that a person is trying to conceal something from you, but with only partial success, look at though you did not believe him, this opposition on you part will provoke him into leading out his reserve of truth and bringing the whole force of it to bear upon your incredulity.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.”
“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
“If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.”
“If you have repented of your sins and accepted Jesus as you Lord and Savior, then you are saved! This is an objective reality, not a subjective feeling.”
“If you have repented of your sins and accepted Jesus as you Lord and Savior, then you are saved! This is an objective reality, not a subjective feeling.” —Ibrahim Emile”
“If you have repented of your sins and accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then you are saved! This is an objective reality, not a subjective feeling.”
“If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.”
“If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.”
“If you have said something wrong, say sorry. But if you have done something wrong, feel sorry. Feeling sorry will telepathically communicate your apology to the other person if they deserve it.”
“If you have science and art,
You also have religion;
But if you don't have them,
You better have religion.”
“If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.”
“If you have sea level adapted genetics, then it is in your best interest to live and work near sea level.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“If you have seen darkness, you will appreciate the dawn of light.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point."
But for people, drama is the point. A point is useless to them if it doesn't provide drama.”
“If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.”
“If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.”
“If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be. The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.”
Source: The shield of faith
“If you have seen your teacher only in school, it feels strange to come across them in a market. If you have seen your milkman or newspaper boy only at sunrise, it feels strange to see them in broad daylight when they come to collect payment.
When a friend or loved one breaks away from your circle, it feels strange to see them in their new circle. It is not jealously. It is a spontaneous and neutral feeling. It turns into jealousy when it gets mixed with our fears and insecurities. Accept this feeling as-it-is before it turns into jealousy.”
“If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.”
“If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.”
“If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.”
“If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing but it's not something to not take seriously and it's not something to take seriously.”
“If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.”
“If you have sex, it should be for you, not for the other person.”
“If you have sixty seconds worth of distance...run!”
“If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.”
“If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?”
“If you have so many questions on a task, than leave that task.”
“If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.”
Source: Men God Challenged: Moody Classics Series
“If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.”
“If you have some kind of skill to survive, if dishonesty disturbs you, if you avoid evil acts, then you had very good teachers.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If you have some legally sanctioned relationship with the bundle of legal rights traditionally belonging to marriage and governing authority has slapped a label on it, whether it is civil union or domestic partnership or whatever label it's given, it is nonetheless tantamount to marriage.”
“If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.”
“If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.”
“If you have some problem in your life and you need to deal with it then use religion it's fine. I use Google.”