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 the same story five times, it's true.”
“If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."”
“If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.”
“If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.”
“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)
“If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.”
“If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory”
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.”
“If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.”
Source: Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon
“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.”
“If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.”
Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon
“If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.”
“If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.”
Source: Emptiness Dancing
“If you tell yourself, as Katrín does, that no amount of adversity can throw you off your game, you’re far more likely to be resilient and thus successful in the long run. Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, and your actions dictate your destiny.”
Source: Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes
“If you tell yourself, I’m going to remember this moment for the rest of my life, then you will remember it. You have to focus on your thoughts while simultaneously absorbing everything around you but if you do this, then the moment will stay with you forever, no matter how insignificant it may seem.”
Source: What I'd Rather Not Think About
“If you tell yourself something often enough you will start to believe it, that is why you must make self love your mantra.”
“If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.”
“If you tell yourself that you need more riding experience, more mechanical prowess, more tools, a better bike, and try to cover every single contingency you might face before setting out for a weekend on the bike by yourself, you'll likely never take a solo trip.”
Source: Hit The Road: A Woman's Guide to Solo Motorcycle Touring
“if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.”
Source: When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening
“if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?”
Source: The Secret Mandarin
“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”
“If you tend to act on your emotions, you are always doing what everybody generally does—letting one’s emotions determine who they are. It’s one habit that a leader shouldn’t cultivate.”
“If you test Iron Man and that audience doesn't respond well, you can be damn sure that there is something wrong with the movie that you have to address. Because they're expecting a certain amount of action, right? They want a hero. There are certain things that have to be compatible with the way the audience is thinking about it. If you take some other film, like No Country for Old Men, you can end up with all kinds of crazy reactions.”
“If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back.”
“If you the American citizen leave a child in a hot car and that child was harmed by that you will be charged with negligence even if your action was unintentional.”
“If you the best, take the test!”
“If you the owner of the dog, really showing not just food but real affection, then dog very much appreciate. Isn't it?”
“If you then cast a somebody, playing a nobody is always an additional effort. But that was not the reason we cast him. It was because Ben Whishaw delivered exactly what I was hoping for.”
“If you, therefore, must be numbered among the great, you too must run for your life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you think "sagging," and, how many women you've got, and how big a chain you've got, and how much dope you're slangin', and how much money you've got in your pocket makes you a "man," then you're sadly mistaken. You're going to be a misguided soul your entire life.”
“If you think 'loading the dishwasher' means 'getting your wife drunk', you might be a redneck”
“If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.”
“If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.”
“If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.”
“If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.”
“If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.”
“If you think a quaterhorse is that ride in front of Kmart.. You might be a rednneck”
“If you think a seagull approaching you for the bread in your hand is doing so because it loves you, you're only proving how naive you are!”
“If you think a socially dysfunctional society is great, you will love the USA!”
“If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.”
“If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.”
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.”
“If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.”
“If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.”
“If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.”
“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.”