I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.”
Source: 1,003 Great Things about Friends
“If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag.”
“If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?”
“If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, he/she will walk for 2 steps, then start running again.”
“If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.”
“If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.”
“If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.”
“If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.”
“If you tell a lie, tell a big one.”
“If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'”
“If you tell a story - something real, something true - you get to be alive in other people. And writing feels like the most... the greatest chance I'll ever have at being - alive.”
Source: The Project
“If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.”
Source: Drive: The Story of My Life
“If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.”
“If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.”
“If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.”
Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.”
Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light
“If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.”
“If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.”
“If you tell God 'no' because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say 'yes' to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience.”
“If you tell grown-ups, 'I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves on the roof...,' they won't be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, 'I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs.' Then they exclaim, 'What a pretty house!”
Source: The Little Prince
“If you tell have of them that work in those places that they have somethin' to do with Africa they'd piss straight in your face."
But why you goin' to tell a man that for," said Mr. Foster, "Why tell a man he's somebody brother when he ain't?"
"'Tis true," said Bob's father, "no man like to know he black." (p.102)”
Source: In the Castle of My Skin
“if you tell her she can come home just because she’s lonesome, then how is she going to grow up to be a strong individual, to stand on her own two feet as you know she will have to in this life? If you let her come home, how is she ever going to understand that she has to commit herself to fulfilling the responsibilities she’s taken on? She needs to grow up.”
Source: Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
“If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.”
“If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.”
“If you tell me a person cannot have multiple Twin Flames because you do not believe in more than one, I trust you will never argue with an atheist who tells you God doesn’t exist because he doesn’t believe in him.”
“If you tell me before, it's a reason. If you tell me after, it's an excuse.”
“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.”
Source: How to enjoy your life and your job
“If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.”
“If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she can't understand us because of her faith, well, if you can't have empathy how will you ever have solidarity?”
“If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.”
“If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.”
“If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.”
“If you tell me that you’re insecure because of another man, Saskia, I’ll kill him.”
Source: In Fury Lies Mischief
“IF YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU READ I'LL TELL YOU
THE WAY YOU THINK.”
“If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.”
“If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!”
“If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.”
“If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.”
“If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply “alone.””
“If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right”
“If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they can only burn one CD with a track or pay per track per burn extra, nobody is going to go for it.”
“If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.”
“If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.”
“If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.”
Source: Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
“If you tell somebody enough, "You're stupid, you're not worth it, you can't do this, you can't do that," then how many times do you have to hear that before you believe it? The power of words is immeasurable.”
“If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.”
Source: Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff
“If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.”
Source: The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
“If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.”
“If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect you to be funny, and if you're not, they notice. Whereas if you read a regular op-ed about Israel or the family or medicine, you're not starting with the assumption that you're supposed to laugh.”