I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.”
“If you view terrorism in Syria from one perspective and terrorism outside Syria from another perspective, it can create problems. If you view terrorism in categories such as good terrorism and bad terrorism, that too can create its own challenges.I think we should not look at these questions individually.”
“If you view the claims of God as outrageous, it’s because your vision is far too tame and your apathy is way too strong.”
“If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.”
“If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.
If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.
If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”
“If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.”
“If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.”
“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.”
“If you visualise something happening in the future it will always be happening in the future and never in the now.”
Source: I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom
“If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.”
“If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers. That's not censorship. That's common sense.”
“If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.”
“If you vote against the Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.”
“If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain”
“If you vote for Al Smith, you're voting against Christ and you will all be damned.”
“If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.”
“If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.”
“If you vow for a long time not to look at women, do you leave out women when you vow to save numberless sentient beings? If you do so, you are not a bodhisattva. How can you call it the Buddha's compassion? This is merely nonsense spoken by a soaking-drunk shravaka. Humans and devas should not believe in such a practice.”
Source: The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master
“If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.”
“If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.”
“If you wait around long enough, everyone else goes away eventually.”
“If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.”
“If you wait for a giant wave to be gentle with everything in its path, or for a tiny wave to crush whatever on its way, you'll be waiting forever!”
“If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.”
Source: Sermons: 10th series
“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.”
“If you wait for God to descend to earth and save you
from your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead.”
Source: Goodbye Girl
“If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.”
“If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.”
“If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.”
“If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.”
Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
“If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.”
“If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.”
“If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.”
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“If you wait for permission, you're going to be waiting for a long time.”
“If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.”
“If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”
“If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.”
“If you wait for the sun to shine, all that you will have are rainy days.”
“If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.”
“If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.”
“If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible it is gone.”
“If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.”
“If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you’re sure to learn hunting isn’t about killing. Nature actually humbles you. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.”
“If you wait till you know everything it's too late”
“If you wait till you're retired to "spend time" with your family...by the time you get there, your kids will be working to wait until it's time to spend time with their family...and their kids will be waiting...”
“If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.”
“If you wait to do something, you are cursed never to do it.”
“If you wait to figure out everything before starting anything, it'll never happen.”
Source: MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons