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 to choose between a very rotten bridge and a cliff, choose the cliff, because you know the cliff won't collapse! The cliff is now your new sturdy bridge!”
“If you have to choose between any two, first choose time to think.”
“If you have to choose between caring too much and not caring, then choose over caring because that's not bad guilt to have.”
“If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.”
Source: You Gotta Have Balls
“If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.”
“If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person; choose your self-respect & ego.
Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations.”
“If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.”
“If you have to chose, chose to die for love than to live with hate.”
“If you have to compromise with or change even a tiny bit of your personality in order to be with her, then leave her immediately - she's not worth it!”
“If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.”
“If you have to conduct layoffs, which is always a regrettable thing, there's kind of three things that are very important. One is to communicate well with your employees in order to help them understand why it is you're doing, and how. Second is to make sure that the employees who are part of the go forward, understand kind of what happened and are not like the ground doesn't keep moving. It's like, okay, we did that, we're moving forward, here we go. And then for the employees that you unfortunately have to let go, try to provide as much support for them as possible.”
“If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.”
“If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.”
“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
“If you have to cry, it's okay. I'll cry with you.”
“If you have to cut corners to get it, without allowing yourself go through the process, you will not be able to keep it.”
“If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.”
“If you have to degrade one thing to express your love for another, is it love? Your love should be able to stand on it's own merit...without excuse or explanation.
#DontTaintYourLoveWithHate”
Source: Heaven on Hell Island
“If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.”
“If you have to die like a worm, die that way, complaining will not fetch you anything extra.”
Source: Dozakhnama
“If you have to dim your light or size yourself down to make others feel comfortable around you, you're surrounded by the wrong people. It's time to meet more aligned souls.”
“If you have to do durational work, you have to train! No bullshit. You can't do it for three months. You can do it for five hours, 10 hours, and then you have three months rest. If this is your job, you have to be flexible.”
“If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.”
“If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.”
“If you have to do it, you can do it.”
“If you have to do the work, it well.”
“If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.”
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
“If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes And you drop one on the floor Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore”
“If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.”
“If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.”
“If you have to explain a joke, it hasn't worked.”
“If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.”
Source: When It Happens
“If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.”
“If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.”
“If you have to face fear, train hard first!”
“If you have to fake it or force it to fit your future, it could be fatal and that's not always meaning in the physical.”
“If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.”
“If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.”
Source: The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega
“If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.”
“If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.”
“If you have to forecast, forecast often.”
“If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.”
“If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.”
“If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?”
Source: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“If you have to go back through your day in your head, try to go back to only the good things. Look at those, and what you did well. Otherwise, life kind of passes you by.”
“If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.”
“If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree.”
Source: Blindsight
“If you have to go, you know I will go with you." We slept.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews”