I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you only understood what grace means and what you have received by way of it, you would never cease to rejoice!”
Source: Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit
“If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.”
“If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.”
Source: The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up
“If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.”
“If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new”
“If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.”
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not.
You have to write when you’re not inspired. And you have to write the scenes that don’t inspire you. And the weird thing is that six months later, a year later, you’ll look back at them and you can’t remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you just wrote because they had to be written next.
The process of writing can be magical. …Mostly it’s a process of putting one word after another.”
“If you open a door, however, as Diane Nash did with her persistent questions, you offer the other a way out and all your power can be deployed in persuading them to take it. In short, rather than working to frustrate the other, focus on redirecting their attention to a positive outcome.”
Source: The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
“If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.”
“If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.”
“If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.”
“If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person - I don't care what you do - would be mortified. It's no wonder people get crazy about it.”
“If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.”
“If you open up your heart
You will know what I mean
We've been polluted so long
But here's a way for you to get clean By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see.”
“If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!”
“If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.”
“If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.”
“If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.”
“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.”
“If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.”
“If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.”
“If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it's like to win.”
Source: Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life
“If you opt to be busy as a bee, make sure it is also about your big dreams.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.”
“If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.”
“If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.”
“If you or I were to see somebody in the street beating a dog, and we said “please don’t beat your dog,” but he carried on beating the dog, we would have to use some force—which could be defined as violence—to stop that from happening. Now would that be wrong? I’d say of course it wouldn’t. And I don’t see the difference, in moral terms, between someone beating their dog in the street and somebody torturing an animal in a laboratory.
~ Ronnie Lee”
Source: The Animals' Freedom Fighter: A Biography of Ronnie Lee, Founder of the Animal Liberation Front
“If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.”
“If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus”
“If you order a milkshake at a diner and they mix dog poop into it, you probably wouldn't drink it. If you go into a town with pollution, you may survive and have a good visit, but you risk being poisoned.”
“If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.”
“If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.”
“If you ought to know, educate yourself.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“If you ought to pass through a mist, first think of the ground, then of the sky.”
Source: Ten Loud Rocks
“If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.”
“If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.”
“If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.”
“If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.”
“If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.”
“If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.”
“If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.”
“If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.”
“If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.”
“If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.”
“If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.”
“If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich. If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball. [...] And everybody thinks they're going to leave at two minutes to 12.”