I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel
“If you spent your weekends in the clubs, you could see the change in the eyes of the people. They became merciless, in a way, in their desire to be entertained.”
“If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.”
“If you spoke to me in Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.”
“If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service.”
“If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.”
“If you spread your resources too thin, you’re failing to dedicate the attention that your priorities deserve.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat.”
Source: Return to Paradise
“If you spur your imagination with belief, desire and expectancy, and train it to visualize your goals so that you see, feel, hear, taste and touch them, you will get what you want.”
Source: The Silva Mind Control Method
“If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.”
“If you squander your time on the tricks of the trade,
On discovering just how a shortcut is made,
You’ve neglected the work and your skills are but frail.
If you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.”
Source: You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles And Practices
“If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.”
“If you stand a little far from the fire you will receive heat and light, if you go too close you will burn! Everything you will experience in life is like this fire; if you can adjust the distance or dose you can benefit from everything or be safe from everything!”
“If you stand a Yard away from God Today, you will see your kids standing a Mile away from God Tomorrow.”
“If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with each other even just like that...then lets, count that as us being together. I'll miss you alot. I love you. I love you...”
“If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!”
“If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is just another example of a wave of artistic endeavour that changes. It reaches a certain point, learn from what its done and move on. We seemed to have picked up on that.”
“If you stand back far enough, anything and everything is nothing.”
“If you stand firm in the light, you can never be diminish by the doom of darkness.”
“If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.”
“If you stand for nothing in your lifetime you will be known for nothing when you are no more!”
“If you stand for peace in the USA, you're lucky to be alive.”
“If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.”
“If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagine you're looking at something out of mythology: all this golden sunlight brought down to earth, captured in kernels of gold, and rendered fit for mortals to eat. But of course this is no myth at all, just the plain miraculous fact.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.”
“If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.”
Source: Day by Day
“If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o’clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they’ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black.
They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.”
Source: Ugly People Beautiful Hearts
“If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.”
“If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.”
“If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.”
“If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.”
“If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.”
“If you stand up for what you believe, you will always win no matter what.”
“If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.”
“If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.”
Source: The decline and fall of science
“If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.”
“If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.”
“If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.”
“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”
Source: Little Brother
“If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.”
“If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”
“If you stare in the face of evil too long, it will become your reflection.”
“If you stare in the face of evil too long, it will become your reflection. Turn toward the light of love.”
Source: StarChild 000000088: A journey of Courage, Growth and Love
“If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.”
“If you stare into the darkness for a long time, a monster will be created out of that darkness, and it will be very real. The torments that this monster will create will also be very real.
As far as you are still in the darkness, no positive beliefs can remove your monsters.
For the monsters to go, you just need one thing: LIGHT!”
“If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.”
Source: Eating the Dinosaur
“If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.”
“If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.”
“If you start a day with a good question, you’ll get to have an interesting time looking for answers.”
Source: running is flying intermittently
“If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.”