I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.”
“If you really want to succeed, you'll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn't for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.”
“If you really want to talk to the big boss now, make sure you leave your balls here with me, for he likes no balls on people he is talking to.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.”
“If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.”
“If you really want to test your love, you have to part ways. If your love doesn’t alter when it finds alterations, when the intensity of your love doesn’t diminish in the absence of your partner, that is when you know you have tasted true love. Your father has died. He’ll never come back. I’m faced with permanent absence. I still love him. That is the ultimate test. That is pure love.”
Source: Shadows Within: A Collection of Dark Tales by Ali Zaka
“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.”
“If you really want to turn your health around, start juicing today.”
“If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.”
“If you really want to understand life, you have to stop pointing fingers at others and begin to understand every aspect of your life and see how it shapes in different ways.”
“If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.”
“If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.”
“If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.”
“If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.”
“If you really want your hair to look good, just don't wash it for a day. That's my secret.”
“If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.”
“If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”
Source: High Fidelity
“If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.”
“If you really wanted to understand this country, this alleged two-hundred-year attempt to establish a society on Enlightenment values, I could think of no better place to study that effort than from the perspective of those whom that society excluded and pillaged in order to bring those values into practice.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“If you really were aware of the Earth in a singular context, putting it into the perspective of the galaxy, for example, then you would see that it is not infallible, that it is just part of a much bigger system that is part of a much bigger system and onward.”
“If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world; offer your silence with smile.”
“If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be faithful to prayer. It is the key to the vitality of your life in Christ. Without prayer, your faith and love will die. If you are constant in daily prayer and in the Sunday celebration of Mass, your love for Jesus will increase. And your heart will know deep joy and peace, such as the world could never give.”
Source: Pope John Paul II in My Own Words
“If you really, really want to help people, stop denying them their dreams when they're young.”
“If you recall our first meeting, you should remember that I need no help if I want to kill you with my bare hands. My friends are here to prevent me from doing that.”
Source: Loving a Lost Lord
“If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.”
“If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the challenge with that is if all of a sudden, you are hired just because of the color of your skin, ability has nothing to do with it.And if ability has nothing to do with it, what does it do? It promotes mediocrity.”
“If you receive a ‘certified’ message in a bottle with an audit notice, be sure to have the most complete records and do not forget those receipts before the IRS boards your vessel for inspection.”
Source: Now What? I Got a Tax Notice from the IRS. Help!: Defining and deconstructing the scary and confusing letters that land in your mailbox.
“If you receive a gift without understanding the heart of the giver, you might have received something but it wasn’t a gift.”
“If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to bodhicitta. The essence of practice is about bodhicitta. When you sit down to do your practice, what you practice is bodhicitta.”
“If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.”
“If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.”
“If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.”
“If you recognize how you are most effective - whether it's how you present yourself or whether it's how you speak, how you convey enthusiasm - when you realize what makes you feel like your most confident self, that's when you are going to be your best. You just have to figure out what makes you effective in your environment. As long as you get that right, they are always going to remember you a lot more!”
“If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.”
Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace
“If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.”
“If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.”
“If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.”
“If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.”
Source: Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980
“If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.”
“If you refer to worldly interactions as vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidences), then all the hopes (aasha) and insatiable desires (trushna) will disperse away.”
Source: Aptavani-1
“If you reflect on Life, it has no meaning. You came with nothing. And you will go with nothing. In this time, you will acquire knowledge and experience…you may get fame and wealth…you will build relationships…and blah and blah and blah…but nothing – and no one – is going with you, when it is time for you to leave. So, is Life meaningless? Perhaps, yes. But there’s another view too. The only option each of us has, since we don’t choose to be born, is to bring meaning to the Life that we have been given. Simply, what you do is more important than what you acquire and own in your lifetime. Therefore, make what you do – to make this world a better place for the generations to follow – the singular focus of your journey while enjoying every moment of it. This is how you bring meaning to an apparently meaningless Life!”
“If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.”
“If you reflect upon your own highest moments or peak experiences. You will probably also remember them as moments of great pleasure, even ecstasy.”
Source: The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
“If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.”
“If you refrain from doing wrong from the start, there won't be a need for you to go around apologizing or explaining yourself.”
“If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?”
“If you refuse, I will drive this blade through Taha’s heart.” I glance back at Taha. “But take comfort. You have little use for it anyway.”
Source: Spice Road
“If you refuse to accept nothing but the best you will often get it.”
“If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar