I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.”
Source: Margherita Dolce Vita
“If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“If you meet god, tell him to just leave me alone!”
Source: Berserk, Volume 21
“If you meet me on the street you should hurry on without a backward glance, and later when you climb into bed beside a happy girl with simple thoughts and stroke her perfect hair with fingers that are still shaky from our near-miss, you can whisper that you had a brush with death today, darling, and somehow lived.”
Source: The Monday Girl
“If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.”
“If you meet somebody and are attracted to someone, and the exquisite neurons in your brain and her brain intermesh properly, then things can be wonderful. It's not like homework. You don't have to work at the relationship.”
“If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.”
“If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.”
“If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.”
Source: Everyday Wisdom
“If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.”
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.”
“If you meet the darkest moment of life, strive valiantly through it with courage and never retreat, for you shall surely meet light afterwards. If you meet the muddy stream of life, swim across it with tenacity to the very end for there is a clearer stream that shall wash your dirt away afterwards. If all people reject you in the mid of the arduous race of life, dare to smile and move on for there are people who await you to embrace you in the end”
“If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.”
“If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?”
“If you melt while looking at a melting candle, then you are a true romantic!”
“If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...”
“if you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!”
“If you mentally believe it will happen, your body is going to find a way to make it physically happen.”
“If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.”
“If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.”
“If you mention Bella's name to me again, Gil, I am likely to do you a mischief!' Sherry warned him. 'I never cared the snap of my fingers for that wretched girl, and if you are not assured of that, ask her! Why, God save the mark, she may be a beauty, but give me my Kitten! Bella, with her airs and her graces, and her miffs, and her curst sharp tongue! No, I thank you! What's more, no man who had lived with Kitten would look twice at the Beauty!”
Source: Friday's Child
“If you mention what he said about rapists from Mexico, there are some that come over - I can prove that with how many I have in the jail system - but I don't think Donald Trump meant that everybody coming over are rapists. Come on, he knows that and I know that.”
“If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.”
“If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.”
“If you merely harbour lofty aspirations without pursuing them, you will never experience the peace that comes with witnessing the realization of your own dreams.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.”
“If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.”
“If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.”
“If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the worst in the best violinist. You almost never hear a satisfying performance, because it doesn't play itself.”
“If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.”
“If you mess with dragons, you will get burned. Don’t say no one warned you.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If you mess with Magee, expect to get burned.”
“If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.”
“If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.”
“If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.”
“If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time.”
“If you minimize your accomplishments, that's what people will believe about you. If you emphasize your accomplishments, that is how you will be perceived.”
“If you miss Christ you miss everything, and if you have Christ you have everything.”
“If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it”
“If you miss one day in physics, that's it.”
“If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.”
“If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.”
“If you miss the beginning, the basics, then you are destined to go back and visit the basics.”
“If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“If you miss the moment, you miss your life.”
“If you miss them after leaving them, you have left someone you shouldn't have left.”
“if you miss what seems so glamorous; if you miss what seems so fantastic to have, don't worry. It may be just a matter of fantasy to have it. Real things are rare but real to have. serendipity and the vicissitudes of life determine what is real, ideal and what is a fantasy. The real future is uncertain to all.”
“If you miss your bus, just start walking.”
“If you misuse your youth, you get misery when you are old.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff.”