I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If even the twilight seems too bright to you, it means your soul is fiercely searching for complete darkness!”
“If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.”
Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone
“If ever a child makes a mistake, no matter how big, they need to hear in words and loving actions, “Even though you made a mistake you are loved. There are consequences to your actions, and I’m here for you. I know you are just learning how to be in life. Let me help you navigate through life.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“If ever a face meant death — if looks could kill — we saw it at that moment.”
Source: Dracula
“If ever a goal ever needed a game, this is it”
“If ever a loss comes your way, I hope it tears you apart only to build you again, for the better and not worse. So you learn to love the dark and not just light. After all, bravery is to brave the night and find the dawn.”
“If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.”
“If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.”
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
“If ever
A vicious stepmother mixes in your drink
Subtle poisons, or makes a treacherous dish
Of lethal aconite for you, don't wait a moment--
Take a dose of wholesome horehound...”
Source: Hortulus
“If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.”
“If ever again, someone says to go to the market, where hearts are sold in exchange for melancholy souls, never would I go.
Never would I wait, if ever again someone says— not to.”
Source: Unexpressed Feelings
“If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States - that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.”
“If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.”
“If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.”
Source: Diderot, interpreter of nature: selected writings
“If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.”
“If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop
“If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Comfort Edition
“If ever I create a website, I'll call it Two-Face Book, and I'll invite everyone to it, it will be a game board, of a whitewash chalkboard.
A social network, with reserved intentions, where we can fall into our cliques and circle of friends. We can dis who we want and accept who appeals to our discretion. Where the users will keep abusing, and abusers keep using, where the computer bullies will keep swinging and the J-birds that fly by will die; where the lonely will keep seeking and the needy still go desperate, where the envious will keep hating, and the lustful will keep flashing. Where those that think ignoring, will keep one down and the wannabes will foolishly think themselves greater by the number of "likes" that pours caffeine into their coffee. We can jump on the bandwagon of likes, or reserve not to show we care. Where the scorners, scammers and stalkers lay wait to take hold of the innocent and fragile, and my pockets will get fatter as more and more will join up, where being fake is accepted. As a mirror that stares at a different face. It will be my two-face epilogue, in a 3-world dimension, of a twofold war. I will build an empire of contagious hooks, and still we will live, happily-ever disastrous.”
“If ever I create something according to the standards and rules of the crowd, I will have lost the art of being an artist to begin with.
Always go against the grain, it makes people unhappy.”
“If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.”
“If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.”
Source: Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents
“If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.”
“If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45
“If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.”
Source: Two worlds for memory
“If ever I have property and a house, like this, and slaves in such numbers as Vinicius, perhaps I shall be a Christian as long as may be convenient. For a rich man can permit himself everything, even virtue. This is a religion for the rich; hence I do not understand how there are so many poor among its adherents. What good is it for them, and why do they let virtue tie their hands?”
Source: Quo Vadis?
“If ever I have the time, I’m going to write a book about beauty and pain. They’re so alike in so many ways: neither of them really exist, but both of them are strong enough to override the strongest human mind and turn wisest and bravest of us all into clowns. Someone who can command beauty and pain – well, they’d have all the bases covered, as we say where I come from.”
Source: In Your Dreams
“If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.”
“If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.”
“If ever I question whether I am blessed today I need only to take a deep breath and realize I am still here now aren't I.”
“If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.”
“If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.”
“If ever I think I've got something so important to say or share with the world that everyone else should sit up and take notice, I just remember who I really am: a pretty ordinary person who just happens to enjoy telling stories.”
“If ever I to the moment shall say:
Beautiful moment, do not pass away!
Then you may forge your chains to bind me,
Then I will put my life behind me,
Then let them hear my death-knell toll,
Then from your labours you'll be free,
The clock may stop, the clock-hands fall,
And time come to an end for me!”
Source: Faust
“If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!”
“If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.”
Source: Seekers After God
“If ever I was distraught or heartbroken, my mom would always say, Go read history. Her solution for everything. For so long I believed history was a thick book you carried around in your backpack, not something you could create. It was one hour in an air-conditioned portable classroom after lunch, watching Civil War reenactments.... It'd take me a long time to realize history is happening now, and we are a part of it.
...History shows you what people have endured before you...History shows that if you were in the minority, if no one believed you, it didn't mean you were wrong. Rather, it meant society was slow to catch up to you. And if those in the minority did not buckle, did not give up their truths, the world would shift below their feet.”
Source: Know My Name
“If ever I was running, it was towards you.”
“If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!”
“If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.”
Source: Killosophy
“If ever man were moved with woman moans,
Be moved with my tears, my sighs, my groans:”
Source: The Rape of Lucrece
“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”
“If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.”
“If ever she needed the reassurance of old friends and the familiar, it was now.”
Source: Gossamer Axe
“If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.”
Source: The woman in white
“If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.”
“If ever the difficulties of your life seem overwhelming, consider the prospect of being eaten alive by savage penguins and rejoice that such horrors are unknown to you.”
Source: Now That You're Back