I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you somehow believe that you can free yourself from yourself, you will spend the rest of your life decorating the prison cell that you’ve been living in all of your life.”
“If you somehow believe that you can sort out the ‘rat’s nest' without removing the rats, you’ve denied the need of an exterminator and explained the state of the culture.”
“If you sometimes hear a mysterious voice in your mind that wants to direct you to a very big goal beyond your small and simple dreams, such as a beautiful car, a beautiful house, a beautiful holiday, listen to that voice! Because only when the human soul reaches great goals, it shines with glory!”
“If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew, but weren't entirely aware of. It's very liberating for a writer to go into a space where she or he has not gone before, because, instead of being a tourist, you're like an explorer now, and you're sort of lost in this new idea.”
“If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“If you sow faith, you will reap miracles.”
“If you sow kindness, you will reap love.”
“If you sow knowledge, you will reap wisdom.
If you sow virtue, you will reap honor.
If you sow kindness, you will reap love.
If you sow faith, you will reap miracles.”
“If you sow love, you will reap God.”
“If you sow the seed of time conversion, you will reap a harvest of greatness”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech.”
“If you speak delusions, everything becomes a delusion;
If you speak the truth, everything becomes the truth.
Outside the truth there is no delusion,
But outside delusion there is no special truth.
Followers of Buddha's Way!
Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?
Look for delusions and truth in the bottom of your own hearts.”
Source: One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan
“If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.”
“If you speak French, and so well,
you are already a great musician.
Good French is so the same spell
has the music to a fine magician.”
Source: The Witches Of Avignon
“If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.”
“If you speak insults you will hear them also.”
“If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.”
“If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.”
“if you speak things into existence, they will become real.. believe me!”
“If you speak to the right elders, you can find out anything. It’s like that in Atlanta, too. It’s like that wherever Black people are—we carry hidden histories, passed down from generation to generation.”
Source: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
“If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.”
“If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.”
“If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.”
“If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.”
“If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth.”
“If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something haven happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks.”
“If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something having happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks.”
“If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.”
“If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day.”
“If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.”
“If you spend a thing you can not have it.
[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]”
“If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.”
“If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.”
“If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.”
“If you spend all your time absorbing music that other people created, reading books which other people created, watching movies which other people created, reading comics which other people created, watching other people have fun, listening to other people’s jokes, then it’s very hard to be producing.”
Source: sciVive
“If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.”
“If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can't put your best foot forward.”
Source: Coming Up for Air
“If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.”
“If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.”
“If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it’s clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young women’s sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about how promiscuous girls are, whether they’re acting up on spring break, getting caught topless on camera, or catching all kinds of STIs. Unsurprisingly, these types of articles and stories generally fail to mention that women are attending college at the highest rates in history, and that we’re the majority of undergraduate and master’s students. Well-educated and socially engaged women just don’t make for good headlines, it seems.”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.”
“If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.”
“If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.”
“If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.”
“If you spend eight hours of your day at work, and eight hours at home, there is no reason why your workplace should be any less of a community than your home.”
Source: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
“If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.”
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”
“If you spend enough time with anything, you start liking it, even sadness.”
Source: Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta
“If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.”
Source: Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.”