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 stop [making movies] too soon than too late.”
“I would rather suffer than experience nothing.”
Source: The Smallest Lights In The Universe
“I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.”
“I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.”
“I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.”
“I would rather take good advice from the intelligent than bad advice from the wise.”
“I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.”
Source: Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read
“I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.”
“I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.”
Source: The Elements of Drawing
“I would rather teach one child at home than lead ten thousand armies on the battlefield.”
“I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.”
“I would rather tell myself what I don't know than what I do know. This helps me sustain my passion to learn rather than my inclination to rest on my laurels.”
“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.”
“I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.”
“I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them”
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
“I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth”
Source: The Life of John Taylor: Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
“I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.”
“I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.”
“I would rather try and fail at something than not try at all. Because if I don't try to do something, I will be filled with wonder on whether or not I could've succeeded, and not soon after that wonder will turn to regret. I refuse to live my life wondering and regretting what could've been. I want to live my life with the satisfaction of knowing I tried no matter if I succeed or fail.”
“I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.”
“I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again.”
“I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.”
Source: Dave Barry Talks Back
“I would rather walk alone in light than with many in the darkness.”
“I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.”
Source: Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Source: By Mistake
“I would rather watch a sunset than TV.”
“I would rather wear a suit everyday and be respected than dress half naked and be disrespected.”
“I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.”
“I would rather wear out than rust out.”
Source: The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]
“I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.”
“I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.”
“I would rather win the war within my mind, than go through war within my actions.”
“I would rather win the war within my mind, than go to war through my actions.”
“I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.”
“I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.”
“I would rather worry without need than live without heed.”
Source: Three popular French comedies
“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
Source: Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie
“I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.”
Source: Joseph Rushbrook; or, The poacher
“I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and then just listening to it and saying 'Dude, we made that music!' That's really fun.”
“I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.”
Source: Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.”
“I would read Playboy more often, but my glasses keep steaming up.”
“I would read poetry, hoping for solace in knowing that I wasn’t the only one to feel this exquisitely exhausting and overwhelming pain. Alfred Lord Tennyson had no idea of what a woman could feel when he wrote ‘Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.’
There were times I wished I’d never met Darius at all.”
Source: Dear Beneficiary
“I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.”
“I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.”
“I would read. I would explore”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
“I would really ask everyone, please ask yourself first, what is something that you really care about? What is something that is really resonating for you as an issue, as a concern in this moment. And then please look locally at who is addressing this issue? Where can you support? And ask yourself, “how can I support?”– whether it’s time, whether it is a donation, whether it is spreading awareness, whatever it is.”
“I would really be doing something right, perhaps even important, if I was bringing even a little more compassion into the world through Big Bird.”
Source: The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers