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 to Send a Message, Try Western Union.”
“If you want to serve the age, betray it.”
“If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.”
“If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.”
“If you want to serve your respective community focus on utilizing real leadership to better others' quality of life and put politics aside so your constituents can look up to you. Your legacy is what matters the most more than a title of your leadership position.”
“If you want to share the scenery with the scenery, take a mirror and turn it towards the scenery!”
“If you want to shave your legs, a nurse or orderly has to be present, but no one wants that, and so our legs are like hairy-boy legs.”
Source: Girl in Pieces
“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”
“If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.”
“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”
“If you want to shine over the world, first let the wisdom shines over you!”
“If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.”
“If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.”
“If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.”
“If you want to sicken your population, you isolate them.”
“If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.”
“If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.”
“If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.”
“If you want to sing,
sing like today is your last.
If you want to dance,
dance like today is your last.
If you want to laugh,
laugh like today is your last.
If birds sing without worrying
about who is listening to them,
and monkeys dance without worrying
about who is watching them,
and hyenas laugh without worrying
about who is mocking them,
then you too must do what you do best
without worrying about who is ridiculing you.”
“If you want to sing, you sing without considering who is listening or what they might think.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“If you want to sleep well at night, use the day to work on your dreams with your whole heart.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.”
“If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.”
“If you want to soar, sow a seed for Thanksgiving. It will multiply your blessings and grant you soaring wings.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.”
“If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey to Australia, now has tons of hip-hop artists. The music and artistry have moved way faster than the corporatization of the music. You do need organization and opportunity for these artists to express themselves, and I don't think it has to come from a corporate co-signing.”
“If you want to speak loudly or want to talk with everyone or want to taste what it is like to be immortal, speak through art!”
“If you want to spend more money in restaurants, use credit cards more than cash. If you want to spend less, use cash more than credit cards. But in general, we can think about how to use the pain of paying and how much of it do we want. And I think we have like a range. Credit cards have very little pain of paying, debit cards have a little bit more because you feel like today, at least it is coming out of your checking account, and cash has much more.”
“If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.”
“If you want to sprout roots, my dear, then tend them carefully. Roses are fragile before they're strong. It's as true for plants as it is for life.”
Source: Paint and Nectar
“If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you”
“If you want to stand out, find a way to be either high fidelity or high convenience in whatever you do. If you're halfway in between on both measures, you're not going to make people feel very excited about you.”
“If you want to start convincing your sisters, get them out of the House. Being cooped up never helped anyone.'
Rhys said smoothly, 'I'm not entirely sure Velaris is prepared for Nesta Archeron.'
'My sister's not some feral animal,' I snapped.
Rhys recoiled a bit, the others suddenly finding the carpet, the divan, the books incredibly fascinating. 'I didn't mean that.'
I didn't answer.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.”
“If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.”
Source: Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969
“If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.”
“If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?”
“If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.”
“If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.”
“If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught.”
“If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.”
Source: Hand Me Another Brick
“If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.”
“If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me." -Hatsuharu”
“If you want to stop, tell me now," he said as he ripped open a condom wrapper.
"Stop and I kill you.”
Source: A Covert Affair
“If you want to stop two people from having sex, let them get married.”
“If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.”
Source: Reflections
“If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minutes' regulated time, he makes no influence. Strike now before it becomes too late!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.”
“If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.”