I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you’re truly present in this moment, then you are a Buddha. At least for this moment!”
“If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.”
“If you’re trying to Seduce me, Vane, you’re a bit late. At his point I’m pretty much a sure thing for you.”
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
“If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.”
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
“If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.”
“If you’re worrying about the wrinkles on your bollocks I’d say your life’s pretty good”
“If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.”
“If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.”
“If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .”
“If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.”
“If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.”
“If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.”
“If you’ve got to think about it you probably shouldn’t do it”
“If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
the ocean doesn’t care.
But when Newton’s apple
fell toward the earth,
the earth, ever so slightly, fell
toward the apple as well.”
“If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.”
“If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.”
“If Yui had to describe this feeling, this pain, she would say it was like the stabbing contractions that preceded childbirth, the wonder of the process she had experienced when her daughter was born: closing to open again, contracting to then dilate, clamp and hold, then spread your legs wide and push.
A total paradox, essentially, like one of those things you only find when you've stopped looking for it. Like love, true love, or children that won't come.”
Source: The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
“If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?”
“If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."”
Source: Thomas Merton's Paradise Journey: Writings on Contemplation
“If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.”
Source: Living Zen
“If Zen master Dōgen had been a physicist, I think he might have liked quantum mechanics. He would have naturally grasped the all-inclusive nature of superposition and intuited the interconnectedness of entanglement. As a contemplative who was also a man of action, he would have been intrigued by the notion that attention might have the power to alter reality, while at the same time understanding that human consciousness is neither more nor less than the clouds and water, or the hundreds of grasses. He would have appreciated the unbounded nature of not knowing.”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.”
“If zipper catches skin, I'll know I had it out when I should a kept it in.”
“If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is”
“If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all.”
“If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.”
Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature
“If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'.”
“If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.”
Source: Cymbeline
“If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.”
“If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
“If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.”
“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
“If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.”
Source: Myths & Texts
“If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.”
“If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.”
“If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.”
“If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.”
“If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?”
“If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.”
“If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.”
“If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a queue at the butcher's or any of the other dreary little events that we all have in our daily lives - you begin to lose your lifeline to what people are. And if you lose that, you eventually lose the ability to act.”
“If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create demand, change the system and ultimately help feed the world.”
“If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.”
Source: The Forgers
“If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.”
“If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict - and of tragedy - can never wholly be eliminated from human life, either personal or social. The necessity of choosing between absolute claims is then an inescapable characteristic of the human condition. This gives its value to freedom as Acton conceived of it - as an end in itself, and not as a temporary need, arising out of our confused notions and irrational and disordered lives, a predicament which a panacea could one day put right.”
“If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”
Source: A Grief Observed