I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.”
“If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich people to work you restore their incentive by giving them more, such as by cutting taxes.”
“If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.”
“If you want progress, take up running. If you want meaning, run a church.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“If you want proof that Catfish was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.”
“If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.”
“If you want quiet in the class, join a monastery of bald-headed corpses. Students don't learn by keeping quiet, they learn by actively engaging in the conversation. So, don't try to control your students. If you are teaching right, you'll be in control.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.”
“If you want reach fans on-line definitely pay attention to things like hashtags and to what's trending at the moment. Try to connect to what's hot and to reach out to and to follow the right people. You never know who might re-tweet you and help you get some more followers.”
“If you want real change, if you want a stronger America at home and abroad and an America that cherishes our highest ideals, head out the door right now and go cast your vote for Trump, the next president of the United States, and we will make America great again.”
“If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”
“If you want real peace in the world, start with children.”
“If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.”
“If you want reality take the bus.”
“If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“If you want really to do your best in
an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, ‘I won’t
waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don’t care an iota whether I
succeed or not.’ Say this sincerely, and feel it, and go out and play, or go to bed
and sleep, and I am sure the results next day will encourage you to use the
method permanently.”
Source: On Some Of Life's Ideals: On A Certain Blindness In Human Beings; What Makes A Life Significant
“If you want respect, do something respectful.”
“If you want respect, don’t demand it—model it.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.”
“If you want results, they don't come for free.”
“If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.”
“If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.”
“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”
Source: Acting Up
“If you want Russia to be a real fully developed partner, then America should invest in Russia and activate Russia as a strong nation.”
“If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.”
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition
“If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.”
“If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.”
“If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.”
“If you want some additional money for your school, we'll give it to you. But you've got to compete, show us that you're going to reform your education system so that our children are performing better.”
“If you want some advice—which I'm sure you don't—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in on Lissa." "What?" he asked in mock astonishment. "Doesn't he know my heart belongs to you?" "It does not. And no, he's still worried about it, despite what I've told him." "You know, I bet if we started making out right now, it would make him feel better." "If you touch me," I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the opportunity to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how badass you really are.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with ... it's just kind of ridiculous.”
“If you want some other guy to smash your girl tonight, feel free to get a number and buy her dinner later.”
“If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ?”
“If you want someone to be for you, never let him feel he is dependent upon you; rather, in some way, make him feel that you are dependent upon him.”
“If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“If you want someone to be trustworthy, trust him. That is how my father makes me a reliable person.”
“If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.”
“If you want someone to believe in you, believe in others.”
“If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.”
“If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.”
“If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.”
“If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy. But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the job done and I will get you home.”
“If you want someone to help you heal then you don’t go to the enemy; you go to the one person that fears a bad reputation if they don’t help you.”
“if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi”
“If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?”
“If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.”
“If you want someone’s attention, whisper.”
“If you want somethin', go get it. Period.”
“If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.”
“If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.”