I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.”
Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport
“If your close people don't even have the right to correct you when you are wrong, then you are not easy to be with.”
“If your closest friends stop showing up to your barbecues, you're probably in a bad relationship.”
Source: Unqualified
“If your clothes are tight , you mean a man can hold tight on you , if they are lose you mean you can hold tight to a man”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe.”
“If your commitment is to being present, then there will come a time when being present becomes your natural state. The present moment becomes your home. You will have short excursions into the world of the mind, but you never go so far into the mind that you get lost there.”
“If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.”
Source: The Culture of Make Believe
“If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?”
“If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.”
“If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.”
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
“If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!”
“If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you're probably not doing them right.”
“If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.”
“If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.”
“If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness…I may. If you ask nicely.”
Evie clamped her teeth on the sweet, pulpy grape and maneuvered the seeds out with her teeth and tongue. As he watched her mouth working on the fruit, Sebastian’s smile faded slightly, and he leaned back. “At the moment you’re too much of a novice to be worth the bother,” he continued coolly. “Perhaps I’ll seduce you in the future, after some other men have taken the trouble to educate you.”
“I doubt it,” she said sullenly. “I would never be so bourgeois as to sleep with my own husband.”
A catch of laughter escaped him. “My God. You must have been waiting for days to use that one. Congratulations, child. We haven’t yet been married a week, and you’re already learning how to fight.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.”
Source: The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series
“If your conscience objects, surely God also objects since He is even greater.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong.”
“If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.”
“If your convert your time effectively, it will take you places you never dream possible”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If your coping mechanism to date has been to ignore your weight, don't feel badly. You're in good company. I've done my share of standing on the doctor's scale backwards, cringing as the nurse scribbled on the clipboard, anxious when the doctor came in glancing over my record. I scrutinized his face for any semblance of judgment. Whether or not I faced the scale or the doctor skipped a pep talk, it didn't change the truth and it still pervaded every hour of my waking thoughts. I knew what I needed to do and just agonizingly prolonged it. What about you?
We want our lies to be true--desperately. We think it means less work, less pain. But aren't we experiencing work and pain every day when we are obese? We don't escape it, we just reallocate it, attach it to different problems.
The sooner we face the numbers and start to deal with them, the sooner we can resolve them.”
Source: ...then just stay fat.
“If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.”
“If your corpse can be covered with just one flag, it's a sacrifice wasted in political theatre - when nations join hands to honor your fall, know that you've finally ascended human.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!”
“If your country needs you, you should be right there, that is the way I felt when I was young, and that's the way I feel today.”
“If your country wins the world cup, then the honour goes to your country and all the money to those who made it possible.”
“If your country's in war there ain't nothin' you can do exceptin' help”
“If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.”
Source: Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
“If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.”
“If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.”
“If your culture is not peaceful, throw it from your life! If your religion is not peaceful, throw it from your life! Anything which is not peaceful is worthless! Throw it from your life!”
“If your curiosity reaches a breaking point (compelled actually means that you only have the remaining choice to act on it, having tried all the other options before), and becomes fascination with mystery or truth, you find what you need. Maybe it’s a person, maybe it’s a tragedy, maybe it’s an explosive recognition that, “My God, I’m still alive.”
Source: Re:
“If your current self is not the same as your past self, then what's the point of planning for anything?”
“If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.”
“If your customers are demanding, be thankful.”
“If your customers are your building blocks, it becomes crucial for you to understand their needs and keep them satisfied all the time.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“If your customers have to ask you for it, you haven't been thinking far enough ahead.”
“If your customers have to lose so that you can win, you don't operate a business, you operate a casino.”
“If your customers love you, they will not only remain fiercely loyal but become your most powerful marketing asset. Lovability is the greatest predictor of business success.”
Source: Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It
“If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts — but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better — but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.”
“If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing.' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.'”
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.”
“If your data lake is not clean, it is a data swamp, and you cannot swim in a data swamp, can you?”
Source: Data Humour
“If your dating relationship is sustained by sin, what will sustain your marriage?”
Source: Love Defined: Embracing God's Vision for Lasting Love and Satisfying Relationships
“If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.”
“If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.”