I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.”
“If you put a bird in a cage, it will only fly out if it believes it deserves to be free.”
“If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.”
“If you put a diamond in a box, it becomes a jewelry box. If you put a used tissue in a box, it becomes a trash can. Watch what you fill your thoughts with.”
Source: You Matter: How Women Reclaiming Their Power Are Changing The World
“If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.”
“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
“If you put a little pin in the middle and you make a little space, a little circle, then the nature of the mirror shines through. So now you know the mind is not dust, that behind that dust there is this mirror-like nature of the mind, and if it's a big enough hole, you might be so transfixed by the hole you don't notice the rest of the dust.”
“If you put a man in the mindset of romance, his mind will start to create those synapses and he’ll start taking charge.”
Source: Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
“If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.”
“If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.”
“If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.”
“If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.”
“If you put a s infront of hitman, you have my exact thoughts on Bret Hart”
“If you put a smile on someones face, it was a good day.”
Source: Eyes of Emerald
“If you put a song on SoundCloud for free and it blows up, you'll drop it as a single and maybe get some change off of it, but the real fans are going to be those that come to the shows.”
“If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.”
“If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.”
Source: The People's Pottage
“If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.”
“If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.”
“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”
“If you put all of your business out on social media don't be surprised when the general public tries to run your life.”
“If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.”
“If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.”
“If you put all your eggs in one basket, any fall will be a messy one.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.”
“If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.”
“If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.”
Source: Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)
“If you put Canada into $1.5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.”
“If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.”
“If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.”
“If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.”
Source: Outside In
“If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.”
“If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.”
“If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.”
“If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisond by their own self policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations.”
“If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.”
“If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.”
“If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.”
“If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.”
“If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“If you put gratitude at the center of your life, one day you will find it has completely taken over.”
Source: An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
“If you put in the time, you’ll see the rewards.”
“If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.”
“If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.”
Source: Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
“If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.”
“If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.”