I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”
“If you live every day like it's your last, then you have no regret, because each new dawn it's a blessing in itself — a gift you didn't know you were being given.”
Source: The Charm Bracelet
“If you live everyday, with the capacity to stretch yourself past limitation and structure, you will find boundless opportunity is all the places that once scared you.”
“If you live far away from a person you no longer want to date just let them know that they are geographically undesirable.”
“If you live finite, you will live infinite”
“If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“If you live for another sixty years, you’ll be living 1,892,160,000 seconds. Can you please spare me a second to plant a peck on your cheeks?”
Source: A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
“If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!”
Source: Sermons
“If you live for fame, men may turn against you.”
Source: Sermons
“If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.”
Source: Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.”
“If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.”
“If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.”
Source: Sermons
“If you live for the highest goal, you are living a life of the spirit-whether or not you consider yourself to be on a spiritual path. If you consciously notice the larger aspects of life, always consider whether what you are doing coincides with these aspects, never forget the times when you were enlivened by the power of the highest goal, use those memories in new situations, and act with the knowledge of the support you have and the journey you are on-you will be living for the highest goal.”
Source: The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment
“If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.”
“If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.”
“If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.”
Source: Sermons
“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”
“If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.”
“If you live in a country ruled by criminals, you'll find it difficult to live in peace and find justice”
Source: The Azanian
“If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.”
“If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.”
“If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!”
“If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.”
“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighborhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”
“If you live in a gigantic noisy city that doesn't sleep even at night, a small town which is quiet even during the day becomes the name of eternal peace!”
“If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about.”
“If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.”
“If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.”
“If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.”
“If you live in a house that needs shingles, you will attend a school that needs books, and while sitting in that school's desk you'll struggle to focus because your tooth needs a dentist or your stomach needs food.”
Source: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
“If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.”
“If you live in a mountainous area, hypobaric therapy can be as cheap as a gallon of gas!”
“If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.”
“If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.”
Source: The Quiet American
“If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.”
“If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.”
“If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.”
Source: Macho Sluts: A Little Sister's Classic
“If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.”
“If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.”
“If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.”
“If you live in a tree-house, what you want from the world becomes what a tree wants from the world: You wait for the bird to land on the branch, you wait for the squirrel to run here and there, the wind to blow, the leaves to sing, the rain to fall!”
“If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.”
“If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling to people who will believe anything, it is a golden age.”
“If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.”
“If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.”
“If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health.”
“If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.”
Source: 100 Selected Stories
“If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.”
“If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune