I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you should read, begin with Holy Scriptures.”
“If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere,
From being No one up to being Someone,
Be sure to keep repeating to yourself
You owe it to an arbitrary god
Whose mercy to you rather than to others
Won’t bear to critical examination.
Stay unassuming. If for lack of license
To wear the uniform of who you are,
You should be tempted to make up for it
In a subordinationg look or toe,
Beware of coming too much to the surface
And using for apparel hat was meant
To be the curtain of the inmost soul.”
“If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.”
“If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.”
“If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, 'He is under a ruinous delusion, and is not forgiven at all.' I would not believe he is forgiven if an angel from heaven affirmed it, and I charge you not to believe it too. Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and waterthey will never go together. All who are washed in the blood of Christ, are also sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.”
“If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming.”
“If you show me your knees, i'll imagine your thighs but if you show me your thighs, i won't imagine your knees.”
Source: "Darling, it's not only about sex"
“If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.”
Source: Real Leadership: The 101 Collection
“If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.”
“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
“If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.”
“If you show up and are seen, if you go into the arena, if you create, if you want to be courageous, you will get your ass kicked — that is the one guarantee.
If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.
If you have constructive criticism you want to give me, I want it.
But if you’re in the cheap seats, not putting yourself on the line, and just talking about how I can do it better, I’m not interested in your feeback.”
Dr. Brené Brown”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.”
“If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.”
“If you shun the transient things of this world and devote yourself to serving God wholeheartedly, God will place you right where you are meant to be.”
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”
“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”
“If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.”
Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.”
“If you shutter the light you will fear the darkness when it engulfs you.”
“If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.”
“If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.”
“If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right.”
“If you simply copy and paste instant translations, you only end up with meaningless and contextless junk, which has no relation to the culture and the people.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“If you simply decide – without doubt – it will happen.”
“If you simply exist in life, your life will cease to exist.”
“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”
“If you simply pause and heed once in a while, you can find fragments of extraordinary moments in the midst of an ordinary life.”
Source: Coffee and Ordinary Life
“If you simply see the wave, it is impermanent.
If you look deep into it and you can find the ocean, it is eternal.
The eternal is not permanent, the eternal is beyond time.
'Permanent' means staying longer in time; but what does it matter whether you are a sannyasin for one day or one year or one thousands years - what does it matter? The impermanent is impermanent - one day, one year, one thousand years.
Seek something which is beyond time. Then once it is there you know: it has always been there, and it will be always there. The eternal is your innermost nature, SWABHAVA. It is your innermost being.”
“If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915
“If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.”
“If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.”
“If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.”
“If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?”
Source: Anathem
“If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.”
“If you sincerely feel that there is a need to change something in the world, go ahead and satisfy that need. No one is stopping you.”
“If you sincerely want to know if you're "going too far," don't ask yourself, "Is this bad?" Instead ask yourself, "Is this pure?"”
“If you sing a song, any brokenness shall heal.”
“If you sing a song, you never be sad.”
“If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.”
“If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.”
“If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.”
“If you sing, you will not be sad.”
“If you sing, you will not be sorrow.”
“If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late.”
“If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time”