I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”
“If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.”
“If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.”
“If you just want a comfortable life, the awards, and pats on the back then you play Christian Hip Hop safe. Because playing it safe will give you consistency, but if you're really in this to see peoples lives transform then you're gonna have to do some risk assessment - it is costly to rally try to impact people.”
“If you just want to be a star, go away.”
“If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.”
“If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.”
“If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.”
“If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
“If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.”
“If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.”
“If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.”
“If you keep a clear vision for your future, it will pull you like a magnet through your toughest times.”
“if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect”
“If you keep a goldfish in captivity but don't take care of it then it won't live more than a month. Even if it's a lie, give me my pride, my freedom, and the rolling green meadows!”
Source: Retrogression
“If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.”
Source: Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.”
Source: The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes
“If you keep acting like an idiot and don't get yourself straight, someone's gonna get HURT because of it.”
Source: The Life of Captain Marvel #1
“If you keep an active life, you stay young.”
“If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes”
“If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.”
“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”
Source: The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors
“If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.”
“If you keep believing what you've been believing, then you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving.”
“If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?”
“If you keep chasing your dreams, one day you'll catch them.”
“If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.”
“If you keep crossing me with the monstrosity of your generosity, I just might possibly begin, believing in the sins of love and humanity again.”
“If you keep doing only the things you can handle, you will not be able to push the borders of impossibilities! Try to do the things which are beyond your powers; change your frontiers, create new ones! And then attack the new frontiers!”
“If you keep doing the right thing, one day you will wake up and hear the words, at the right time, you have come out, at the right time, you have built your capacity, at the right time, you can now see the results, at the right time, you have overcome adversity, at the right time - yes at the right time.”
“If you keep doing the wrong thing perfectly, you would keep struggling perfectly.”
“If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.”
“If you keep feeding your hobby, your hobby will feed you too.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If you keep feeding your soul with rotten fruits, don’t expect your bones to be strong enough for a climb.”
“If you keep feeling pricks of conscience during your work, you will always stay on its surface and will never be able to plunge deep inside it.”
“If you keep fighting with yourself, you will have less energy to fight with life!”
“If you keep finding yourself in a deeper hole, no matter what you try to do to improve your life, you need to do two things. First, stop digging. Clearly the same level of thinking that put you in the hole cannot help you escape. Secondly, seek out help from a friend who has what you want, a mentor with a vested interest in your future, or a professional who understands what you are going through.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.”
“If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause.”
“If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.”
“If you keep getting rejected and spat out of every romantic relationship you get into, perhaps you need to start really paying close attention to your sensuality.”
“If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to.”
“If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.”
“If you keep hearing negative things about yourself, they start to seep into your consciousness and you start to feel like they're true. They cloud who you know you really are and you can lose yourself.”
Source: True Love
“If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.”
“If you keep in secret what would have been used to help you, you will never be helped! Your gifts make way for you to lead; use them well!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”
Source: Red Glove
“If you keep listening to what the world thinks of you, you will develop a habit of considering others’ opinion before what you have in your mind.”
“If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.”
“If you keep looking for something wrong, the devil will help you find it.”