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 your life to mean something, don't ask how much you have, ask how much you can give.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“If you want your mind to find what it's looking for quickly, just multiply your options!”
“If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God’s anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with ‘it’. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.”
“if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading”
“If you want your organization to succeed then you must first let your leaders succeed so that the team under them succeed.”
Source: Science Behind A Perfect Life
“If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone.”
“If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.”
“If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.”
“If you want your physical, mental, emotional and eventually spiritual circumstances to transform completely, perhaps even beyond your wildest dreams, be willing to step out of your comfort zone onto the dance floor of your own mindfully chosen life.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.”
“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”
Source: She's Come Undone
“If you want your prisoners to behave until you kill them, you don’t tell them you’re going to kill them!”
Source: Sticks & Stones
“If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.”
Source: Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
“If you want your relationship to thrive, heed to the four C's: Companionship, Communication, Compassion, and Compliments”
“If you want your son or daughter to be positive. Like to enjoy life and so on and so on - focus on the positive, nature, birds, quite and fast waterfalls... If you want to be negative which will mean a killer, a slaughter focus on the negative. Kill infront of the eyes a chicken slaughter it, fast and quick... do it often, read scary horror books!”
“If you want your story to be a story of victory, trust in God even when the path becomes stormy.”
“If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“If you want your trip to be both entertaining and successful - bring a Greek.
But bring two - you will either crash, or end up in heaven.”
“If you want your voice to be heard, speak from your heart.”
“If you want your wife to listen to you, talk to another woman.”
“If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.”
“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”
“If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.”
Source: Out of Control
“If you want, then start to laugh,
If you must, then start to cry,
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny.
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence.”
“If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.”
“If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.”
“If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.”
“If you wanted candles and romantic music, then you wouldn’t have chosen me.”
“Maybe I didn’t choose,” she dared. “Maybe it just happened.”
Source: Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles
“If you wanted four eighth-note triplets in one measure you’d run into the same problem. 4/12 will suffice as a time signature in that instance.”
Source: Quadratics: The Tenor Drum Equation
“If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.”
“If you wanted pomp and circumstance, you dealt with the vampires. If you wanted ceremony, the witches it was. But for plain old straight forward business, you dealt with the werewolves.”
Source: Full Force
“If you wanted to avoid our rage, perhaps you shouldn’t have left us with so little to lose.”
“If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"”
“If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.”
Source: Kill Me Once
“If you wanted to be treated kindly, be kind to others. If you want others to believe in you, believe in other people.”
“If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.”
“If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.”
“If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.”
“If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.”
Source: Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
“If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.”
“If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.”
“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
“If you wanted to kidnap someone, what would you use?" she asked Amit. They were lying in bed, with the lights off. To knock them unconscious. So that you could drag them into the back of your van."
Chloroform, I guess."
Really?" She brightened. It made her happy that the person she was marrying would commit crimes in the same way as she would.”
Source: Ms. Hempel Chronicles
“If you wanted to kill me, why haven't you smothered me in my sleep?" "No sport in that." She gestured towards the ceiling. "Can I expect to be strung up on that bar and gutted like a deer?" He looked up at the bar and frowned. "Too much sport. Lots of heave-hoeing. Big mess to clean up after. Instead, why don't you just drink the poison-laced whiskey?" He extended the glass toward her again and when she didn't move he said, "No? Okay then." He shot the drink. She might not want the edge taken off but he sure as hell did.”
Source: Mean Streak
“If you wanted to kill me, you should've aimed for the head, Princess. But worse yet, you forgot.'
'Forgot what?'
'That it was real.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“If you wanted to play with fire, milady, you could have simply asked me for a kiss or three.”
Source: So Silver Bright
“If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on it because it would take so long. I never believed I could do two things at once. The jobs I had were minimum wage jobs that you wouldn't want to pursue for too long, or that couldn't really take over your life.”
“If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?”
Source: First Circle
“If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.”
Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel
“If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked." (Jace Wayland)”