I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.”
“If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.”
Source: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”
Source: NASI-onalisme ?
“If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.”
“If you took the world away and just left the elctricity, it would look like the most exquisite filigree ever made - a ball of twinkling silver lines with the occasional coruscating spike of a satellite beam. Even the dark areas would glow with radar and commercial radio waves. It could be the nervous system of a great beast.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.”
“If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.”
“IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.”
“If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth”
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
“If you touch me in anger again, whether it be by fist or power, I will end you and bring your court to its knees. I will worm my curses and spells so deep into the roots of your territory that it will look like another haunted forest when I’m done. There will be nothing left for the imps to destroy in my name when I am through. I will sell off pieces of my soul to magic just to end you.”
Source: The Price of Magic: A Cursed Magic Novel
“If you touch me, I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how bad ass you really are."”
“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”
Source: Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
“If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.”
“If you touch the fire or if the fire touches you, it is you who will be burned, Touch Me Not”
“If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.”
“If you tour any workplace, you will see countless logos and banners paying lip service to freedom of speech, democracy, logos like ‘speak up, speak out’, creativity, innovation, and on and on goes the list of flashy words and adjectives that companies and corporations want their employees (and outsiders) to believe are part of their work ethics and culture. Yet, most employees learn at the earliest stages of their careers that these bogus adjectives will get them fired, if they are naïve enough to believe in – let alone act on – them.”
“If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability maintain that my very existence is miraculous. But then after however many decades, less than a hundred years, they disburse and I cease to be. So while they're all congregated and coordinated to make me, then-and I speak her on behalf of all those trillions of atoms-I should really make the most of things.”
“If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.”
“If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.”
“If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.”
“If you trade passion for stability, you basically trade one fiction for another. Both are products of our imagination.”
“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
“If you train 100% the result will be 100%.”
“If you train a dog it will follow you but if you train yourself you will be Great.”
“If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.”
Source: Herschel Walker's Basic Training
“If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.”
“If you train worst case scenarios consistently, they will no longer be worst case scenarios”
“If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.”
Source: The Duties of Parents
“If you train your eyes to see the good in others, you will inspire them to see the good in themselves.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.”
“If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.”
Source: The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for
“If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.”
Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.”
Source: The Portable William Blake
“If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.”
“If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.”
Source: Winning with People Workbook
“If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.”
“If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.”
“If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”
“If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.”
“If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.”
“If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"”
“If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.”
“If you travel to the continent you never have any problems overtaking, this is the only country I know where the outside lane is congested and the two inner lanes are empty. It drives me crazy. I'm ashamed that is so typically British.”
“If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'”
“If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.”
“If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.”
“If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.”