I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you think marriage is going to be perfect, you're probably still at your reception.”
“If you think me weak, bring forth your champion and let me do battle with him.
And kill in that childish way of the Franks? Full of pomp and bravado? We are masters of death here. We do not play at it. - Ware & Sinan”
Source: Lion's Bride
“If you think men and women are the same, you either don’t know much about men, or woman, or both.”
“If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.”
“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
“If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.”
“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.”
“If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.”
“If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form of self-expression, and that's certainly how I approach my music.”
“If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.”
“If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.”
“If you think of building your life the way you build a house, it can help you see how important having a strong foundation is”
Source: The Confident Speaker: Tools to Overcome Your Fear in Public Speaking
“If you think of doing something in New York City, you can be certain that at least two thousand other people have the same thought. And of the two thousand who do, about one thousand will be standing in line waiting to do it.”
Source: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs - ask for is more information, which sometimes can really weigh down a play. There's only so much information a play can have. If you start putting in so much information, it becomes something completely different, it doesn't sing.”
“If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it.”
“If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.”
“If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.”
“If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.”
“If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.”
“If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.”
“If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.”
“If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.”
“If you think of life as a game of dodgeball, Agility is about learning to stay light on your feet and think about what you want to do with all those balls flying at you. In the short term, it can feel easier to duck and avoid them or be more satisfying to throw a ball back even harder, but sometimes the right choice is to call for a time out.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.”
“If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is. But when you have a murder that appears random, where the person is not someone that's within the known radius of the victim, then it's much, much more difficult to solve.”
“If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.”
“If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.”
“If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.”
“If you think of Neters as gods, you limit them and confine them in a box. Only when you open them up, add the divine powers of nature that are always in action that you realize their tremendous importance not in the past but to everyone today. These cosmic laws keep the Universe constantly expanding into ever greater dimensions of time, space, and consciousness.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”
“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”
Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics
“If you think of people as making decisions actively, every time we think about the cup of coffee, we say, "How much will I enjoy the cup of coffee, what else could I not do in the future because I buy this cup of coffee?”
“If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.”
“If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.”
“If you think of something negative and you keep it in your head, you are going to actually live that. Now, if you think of something great and positive and joyful, you're going to actually live that. You've got to be careful what you put in your head. Basically, I'll call that: "Don't ever play yourself."”
“If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.”
Source: Break It Down: Stories
“If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.”
“If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.”
“If you think of the moon as already used, it’s not as difficult to take in,
because then it’s just like you,
Traveled the world like you,
Seen the globe like you,
But, it’s still bright.”
Source: Impossible to Compose: Love in Poems
“If you think of the product as a service, then the separate parts make no sense - the point of a product is to offer great experiences to its owner, which means that it offers a service. And that experience, that service, comprises the totality of its parts: The whole is indeed made up of all of the parts. The real value of a product consists of far more than the product's components.”
“If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.”
“If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.”
“If you think of the way Howlin' Wolf made records, you get the feeling there wasn't a production manager onsite, or a publicist having his say on how he should sing the songs. When you listen to his records, you feel like you're tapping into his voice.”
“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.”
“If you think of thoughts of success and back them up with hard work, then you will be a winner. If you cherish doubts, negative thoughts, then you won't be a winner at all.”
“If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!”