I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.”
“If you try your best, you can always be better.”
“If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.”
“If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue makes you a tacit supporter of it.”
“If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.”
“If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.”
“If you turn from evil ways, you will be well.”
“If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.”
Source: Changes
“If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.”
“If you turn left at the next logging road, he said, and walk a quarter of a mile, you come to a dock on a lake, with an air horn hanging off it. You honk the air horn, and someone comes and picks you up in a boat, and they take you to this place where there's pizza and showers and cold beer!”
Source: Southbound
“If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.”
“If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's a whole lot of stuff there that I think a lot of our generation would be really interested in.”
“If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.”
“If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.'
(from "The Front and the Back Parts of the House", 1991)”
Source: All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories
“If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.”
Source: All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories
“If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide.”
“If you turn to God once, He will turn to you a million times.”
“If you turn to self-realization in search of love, empathy, or affection, or as a solution to your daily difficulties—be they illness, financial hardship, career goals, or relationships—hold on, because it's much more than that! Self-realization is a wonderful journey to discover the profound truth about yourself and the universe, leading you to eternal and unwavering joy. Along this path, you may or may not find the emotions or solutions you crave as delightful surprises, and after self-realization, you will clearly understand why.”
Source: Wisdom of the I: A Guide for Everyone to Supreme Happiness
“If you turn your back on a customer, you turn your back on success.”
“If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.”
“If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.”
“If you turned sideways and stuck your tongue out, you could probably pass for a zipper.”
Source: Too Good to Be True
“If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.”
“If you twist a lie so much that it starts to sound like truth, it does not mean it is truth. It is still a lie but twisted.”
“If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.”
“If you two had babies would they be like uber-von Strassenbergs? Would they be like eight feet tall?”
Source: Lipstick & Bolsheviks
“If you two were going to be that obvious about it, why didn't you guys come down in your Team Daniel and Team Miles T-shirts?" "We should order those," Shelby said. "Mine's in the laundry," Arriane said.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“If you uncover yourself and find who you are, the universe will also uncover itself before you, If you try to forcefully uncover the universe without uncovering yourself, you will meet endless layers after layers of planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, dark matter and what not!”
“If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.”
“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”
Source: 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
“If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.”
“If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“If you understand football you make substitutions during the game, if you don't you make comments after it.”
“If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.”
“If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.”
“If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.”
Source: My Brief History
“If you understand it from an ecological or sustainability perspective, agriculture is the primary way we meet most of our needs, and it's the greatest form of human intervention on our environment. It has intimately shaped our culture as powerfully as industrial modernity, but for ten thousand years rather than two hundred.”
“If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source.”
“If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!”
“If you understand McCarthy's eval, you understand more than just a stage in the history of languages. These ideas are still the semantic core of Lisp today. So studying McCarthy's original paper shows us, in a sense, what Lisp really is. It's not something that McCarthy designed so much as something he discovered. It's not intrinsically a language for AI or for rapid prototyping, or any other task at that level. It's what you get (or one thing you get) when you try to axiomatize computation.”
“If you understand or if you don't
If you believe or if you doubt
There's a universal justice
And the eyes of truth
Are always watching you”
“If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.”
“If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested we probably couldn't get real interested. So you've got to temper your enthusiasm with the reality of our situation.”
“If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.”
“If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!”
“if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.”
Source: The Doris Lessing Reader
“If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.”
“If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you understand that everything is auspiciousness, you will drop expectation”