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 of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction
“If you think of- of the rhetoric of - of modern Democrats, it's often so focused on government that people don't accept - I think a lot of those - a lot of folks on the left don't appreciate that - that people don't want a handout. They don't want government support and they don't, from the right, want people to talk about the noble entrepreneur.”
“If you think one piece of creation is better than another, you have completely lost it.”
“If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.”
“If you think only of that one thing, you'll never be able to change it, but if your regrets help you to really learn an essential thing about being human, that experience won't have been wasted on you. Your life afterward, thanks to that, will be better and stronger than it was before.”
Source: How Do You Live?
“If you think or fear too much, you can't get far!”
“If you think or say, 'I always get jetlag when I travel,' your cells receive 'jetlag' as a command, and they must carry out your instructions. Think and feel that you have a weight problem, and your cells receive the order of a weight problem. They must follow your instructions and keep your body in an overweight condition.”
“If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.”
“If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.”
“If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.”
“If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.”
“If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.”
“If you think playing the lottery is bad for you, and it’s bad for everyone else, then we probably shouldn’t be marketing it with state funds on television.”
Source: sciVive
“If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.”
“If you think quotas mean the best person not getting the job, you have to believe that the best person always gets the job at the moment. Do you really believe there are more than three times more men named John qualified to lead FTSE 100 companies in the UK than all the women put together? All the 32 MILLION women combined? Just statistically, that doesn't make sense.”
“If you think rabbit is faster than the turtle, then imagine them swimming instead of racing.”
“If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.”
“If you think relationships are hard, try growing a house plant. You'll realise that the later won't even tell you why it's sad, so you have to figure that out and do everything possible to make it blossom (or smile) again.”
“If you think research is expensive, try disease!”
“If you think rich, you become rich, if you think poor, you become poor. Therefore, your thought is the master of your own life.”
“if you think she is amazing, you are the ordinary one ...”
“If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.”
“If you think shy, you act shy.”
“If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.”
“If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?”
“If you think somebody cares...
Where are you?
How are you?
...
(You are fucking... damn...WRONG)”
Source: Care
“If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT!”
“If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.”
Source: The Little Silkworm
“If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I'd guess you're not that happy or successful.”
“If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.”
“If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!”
“If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it’s possible and you do it.”
“If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU.”
Source: Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You
“If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.”
Source: The Humans: A Novel
“If you think something’s too hard, it will be. If you think it’s just not possible or not possible for you, then you’ll probably be right. If you think it can’t be done then you’re not the person to do it. Because you’ll fail.”
Source: Strugglers, Stragglers and Seekers: daily devotions for the rest of us
“If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.”
“If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.”
Source: The Two Kinds of Decay
“If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.”
“If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.”
Source: The Complete Talking Heads
“If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.”
“If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.”
“If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.”
“If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.”
Source: Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world
“If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.”
“If you think that American Capitalism is the most dangerous Institution in the World, it just goes to show, that you haven't partied like there is no tomorrow with the fun loving posse of The Islamic Republic of Iran, North Korea, The Taliban, or ISIS. They all party off the hook!”
“If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to have the same kind of reaction that the Cubans had to Castro, then you're high.”
“If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.”
“If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.”
“If you think that chemistry is the stuff that makes you stupid, its the same as the stuff that makes you smart.”