I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.”
“I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident that they will embrace the message and tools and discovery of science in a way that can transform our culture and even our civilization.”
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”
“I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.”
“I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.”
“I would rather fail than regret!”
“I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.”
“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”
“I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.”
“I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.”
“I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.”
Source: Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States
“I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.”
“I would rather fly on a Pekin duck than in a helicopter. The safest place for a rotor aircraft is on a page in da Vinci's diary.”
Source: Duck Quotes For The Ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
“I would rather gain true wisdom than gain false riches. I would rather gain true happiness than false pleasures. I would rather gain true peace than false joy.”
“I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.”
“I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities.”
Source: Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, and Solves Her Lady Problems
“I would rather get offended than defending myself, though if it isn’t my mistake. Just to see that beautiful smile on your face.”
“I would rather get out of the game than stay in the game to change the game.”
“I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”
Source: Conversations with Jim Harrison
“I would rather go for a life with love and good friendships than family and children.”
Source: Do I Have To Be A Mother?: A Childfree Woman's Struggle with Doubt and Loneliness
“I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins,
eyes and ears full of marijuana,
eating the god Peyote on the floor of a mudhut on the border
or laying in a hotel room over the body of some suffering man or woman;
rather jar my body down the road, crying by a diner in the Western sun;
rather crawl on my naked belly over the tincans of Cincinnati;
rather drag a rotten railroad tie to a Golgotha in the Rockies;
rather, crowned with thorns in Galveston, nailed hand and foot in Los Angeles, raised up to die in Denver,
pierced in the side in Chicago, perished and tombed in New Orleans and resurrected in 1958 somewhere on Garret Mountain,
come down roaring in a blaze of hot cars and garbage,
streetcorner Evangel in front of City I-Tall, surrounded by statues of agonized lions,
with a mouthful of shit, and the hair rising on my scalp,
screaming and dancing in praise of Eternity annihilating the sidewalk, annihilating reality,
screaming and dancing against the orchestra in the destructible ballroom of the world,
blood streaming from my belly and shoulders
flooding the city with its hideous ecstasy, rolling over the pavements and highways
by the bayoux and forests and derricks leaving my flesh and my bones hanging on the trees.”
“I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.”
“I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.”
“I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.”
“I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.”
“I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.”
“I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.”
“I would rather Google other people than Google myself.”
“I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.”
Source: A Work in Progress: A Memoir
“I would rather have 10 people working on a record that are really committed and believe in it and love it, than 50 people who have no idea who I am or what I'm for.”
“I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.”
“I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.”
Source: The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest
“I would rather have a big burden or hardship, but have an attitude of strong determination to retaliate a battle, than turning everything topsy-turvy and a mess.”
“I would rather have a candidate that`s cohesive in bringing people together from different ethnic backgrounds but around the same policy than I would a politician that jumps and stumps in different rooms and has a different story every time.”
“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.”
“I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.”
“I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.”
“I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.”
“I would rather have a life full of scars than one full of fear.”
“I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.”
“I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking.”
“I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.”
Source: Rickenbacker
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
“I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.”
“I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.”
Source: The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus
“I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.”
“I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.”
“I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.”
“I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.”