I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.”
“If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.”
“If you talk about what you "can't do" before even considering what you "can do", you will never become what you could have been.”
Source: Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.”
Source: Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions
“If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.”
“If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.”
“If you talk of the Hindu religion, majority of their avatars are worldly people... Then how can these sannyasins be termed religious?”
Source: The Pulse of Wisdom
“If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.”
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
“If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.”
“If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.”
“If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.”
“If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.”
“If you talk to anybody who's been successful in business, they will tell you the thing that matters the most are people. And clearly, in this case, the quality of the people was not paid attention to. By the board and I don't know what they were doing. And I think there is a certain accountability by the board here.”
“If you talk to anyone involved in business - forget banks and big business - talk to small businesses - do it yourself, don't ask me - they'll tell you it's crippling. Small-business formation is the lowest it has ever been in a recovery, and it's really for two reasons. One is regulations and the second is access to capital for people starting new businesses.”
“If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.”
“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”
“If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.”
“If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.”
“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.”
“If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.”
“If you talk to these young men and women who are fighting, they'll tell you that they think it's a worthwhile cause, and they're fighting for freedom, and they-well, they-all I'm saying-the overwhelming majority of them do.”
“If you talk to your body, it will listen.”
“If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.”
“If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.”
“If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.”
Source: The company she keeps
“If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?”
“If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?”
“If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.”
“If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow”
“If you tap into your true story, and share that truth, it resonates with people.”
“If you taste as good as you smell, I'm afraid you'll have me wrapped around your finger in no time." Apollo inhaled the air by my neck.
"I highly doubt that," I whispered.
He chuckled. Apollo's soft touch was gentle with me as he tilted my head to have better access to my neck. "It will only sting for a moment, my dear."
His fangs pierced my neck and I bit back a scream. They were sharp as they dug into my flesh, pulling painfully at my skin, worse than any cut, any needle that had touched me in all my life.
Thankfully it was over in an instant, and the pain was replaced by a warm sensation. Very warm. It traveled from my neck down into my chest, and from there it flowed down even farther into my...
"Oh you... fucking... cheater," I gasped as I clenched my thighs together. I had completely forgotten why powerful vampires had no problem finding blood supplies. It felt good. Stupidly good. It was the bottom of a top-shelf bottle and the smoothest drug all wrapped in the needy high of sex. It was consuming, pulsing heat.
Apollo drew back for a moment to give me a wicked grin. Swimming, everything was swimming, but I didn't hate it. Not that I didn't want to, but nothing had ever messed with my head in this way before. My own blood reddened his lips, but it was the sexiest thing I had ever seen. "Everything okay, my dear?"
"Go lick a garlic bulb.”
Source: Dirty Lying Dragons
“If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”
Source: Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“If you teach a child that they can fly and they jump off a cliff, they will die.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“If you teach a wolf how to hunt, it will reward you by devouring you.”
“If you teach how best to bite; watch out, you might as well be the first victim.”
Source: PRETTY FIGHTINGIRLS
“If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.”
“If you teach success, you will taste success!”
Source: How to Make Life Better: The Fruit Salad Principle
“If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.”
“If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.”
“If you teach your kids that money is everything, they’ll stop at nothing to get it.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“If you teach your kids to be a victim, you’ll rob them of hope.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“If you tear open our heart, you will only see Rahul Gandhi...like Hanuman”
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
“If you tell a child "Don't touch yourself there," they will deal with some kind of sexual problem from then on, to one degree or other.”