I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you set yourself a goal for energy usage in your house, if you have to look at a graph on your phone, you probably won't change your behavior. But if you have a clock on the wall that changes color from green to red if you're using more energy than you've planned, then that actually can change your behavior. There are a lot of things to be done in that world that actually have an impact on our daily lives.”
“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“If you settle for mediocrity, you’ll ultimately become mediocre.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.”
Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography
“If you sexy and you know it and you ain't afraid to show it. Put a candle on my motherfu*king back baby blow it.”
“If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.”
“If you shake my hand, better count your fingers”
“If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.”
“If you shake your tail at it, you might light it on fire. - The Malwatch”
“If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
“If you shall trust the process, God shall trust the outcome”
“If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.”
“If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.”
“If you share bad thing to the people,
they redouble it by referring to you.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.”
“If you share in my cross, you can share in my crown.”
“If you share information widely, but you present that information in ways that fits your own view, you're actually still misrepresenting. So instead what you should do is figure out ways to build systems that allow people to experience and classify their information in ways that are meaningful for them.”
“If you share something in a dream, you can no longer claim ownership of it, for it now belongs to the minds of all who experience it. - The Malwatch”
“If you share your happiness with profound love, it will grow by leaps and bounds.”
“If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn’t be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.”
Source: All Days Are Night
“If you sharpen your attention and learn to see beyond mere vision, you will discover that the heart, in its wise union with the mind, can transcend the barrier of the apparent with a single deep look.”
Source: Talent for Horror: Homage to Edgard Allan Poe
“If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.”
“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”
Source: Stray Birds
“If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.”
Source: Fire
“If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.”
“If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.”
“If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.”
“If you shift your mindset to asking "How can I initiate change that's good for my family, and my community, and my career, and my private self (mind, body and spirit)? then you are more likely to produce harmony in your life, over the course of your life.”
“If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?”
“If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high... Hooray for you.”
“If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.”
“If you shoot for the stars, you'll suffocate because there's no air in space. How do you not know this?”
“If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon”
“If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.”
“If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.”
“If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?”
Source: Selected poems
“If you should by chance bend the rod of justice, do not let it be with the weight of a bribe, but with that of pity.”
Source: Don Quixote
“If you should chance to strike up a conversation with an articulate, English-speaking Russian in, say, the restaurant of one of the luxury hotels along Lake Geneva, and he is wearing a $3,000 suit and a pair of Gucci loafers, and he tells you that he is an executive of a Russian trading company and wants to talk to you about a joint venture, then there are four possibilities. He may be what he says he is. He may be a Russian intelligence officer working under commercial cover. He may be part of a Russian organized crime group. But the really interesting possibility is that he may be all three—and that none of those three institutions have any problem with the arrangement.”
“If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.”
“If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.”
“If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.”
“If you should ever meet a find young lady and offer her a kind gesture and in reply she says your too sweet!! you must be a deceiver you should always respond isn't better to be sweet than sour?”
“If you should fail to comply with our wishes, said the man, you will have no occupation in this or any other field, and henceforth, the world will hold no place for you, ever.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.”
Source: The Passion
“If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes:
Perhaps of my planted forest a few
May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard
With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils.
Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art
To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?”
“If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your own mind.”
Source: The Gift of Fire
“If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your mind.”
“If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.”