I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“if I always have the sun, maybe I won't be afraid of the dark”
“If I always stuck up for what I had, I would have missed the most amazing things I have today. What are you fighting for that you need to let go? Release the magic within. The magic of what could be.”
Source: Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
“If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.”
“If I am / a ball of yarn/ tightly wrapped, / hard to read / poetry is / the fingers / unraveling me / watch me turn from / a tight knot / to a loose string / because poetry / knows everything”
Source: living proof: poems and prose
“If I am a better person, my environment will improve. Understanding that provides both a sense of responsibility and profound purpose.”
“If I am a compilation of nothing but myself, I will have lived a life where I became nothing more than myself. And while it might be true that we all begin with ourselves, to end there is to end in a terribly small place.”
“If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.”
“If I am a fan of my own music, which I am, I want to hear the best Madchild I can hear. What am I missing? I sort of had a good talk with some close friends of mine that I really respect and look up to in music as well and we all just came to the conclusion, just some more storytelling songs of things I have gone through.”
“If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!”
Source: The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
“If I am a God alone, I create a Universe...then there can be no conflict...because all would be a reflection of myself and as I am in harmony with myself, nothing could ever disturb my peace.”
“If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.”
“If I am a High Lord's mate, I'm expected to bear you offspring, aren't I? So perhaps I shouldn't.'
'You are not expected to bear me anything,' he snarled. 'Children are rare, yes. So rare, and so precious. But I don't want you to have them unless you want to- unless we both want to. And right now, with this war coming, with Hybern... I'll admit that I'm terrified at the thought of my mate being pregnant with so many enemies around us. I'm terrified of what I might do if you're pregnant and threatened. Or harmed.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?”
“If I am a man, I am a man who always questions, who is driven to ask with a visceral urgency as irresistible and insatiable as an itch in a fold of my brain.”
“If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)”
“If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.”
“If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.”
Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
“If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?”
“If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.”
“If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.”
“If I am a thief, it's because of private property.”
“If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well.”
“If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.”
“If I am able to sing again it will be through some miracle operation. There's a lot of work being done to help singers regain their voices, but in my case I actually lost vocal tissue so it's very hard for my chords to rub together and I need to replace that tissue. I remain optimistic but not tremendously so.”
“If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.”
“If I am actually willing to see people as unique beyond replication, I will never see a crowd of people. Rather, I will see a collection of individuals.”
“If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
Source: If: Devotional Edition
“If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?”
“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.”
“If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream is not worth the climb.”
“If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
“If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.”
“If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.”
“If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“If I am angry when others act negatively, I am also acting negatively.”
“If I am anorexic, Id be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.”
“If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.”
“If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.”
Source: Principia Ethica
“If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen, they come out of one's own mind. We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.”
Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.”
Source: A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way
“If I am asked, What do you propose to substitute for universal suffrage? Practically, What have you to recommend? I answer at once, Nothing. The whole current of thought and feeling, the whole stream of human affairs, is setting with irresistible force in that direction. The old ways of living, many of which were just as bad in their time as any of our devices can be in ours, are breaking down all over Europe, and are floating this way and that like haycocks in a flood. Nor do I see why any wise man should expend much thought or trouble on trying to save their wrecks. The waters are out and no human force can turn them back, but I do not see why as we go with the stream we need sing Hallelujah to the river god.”
“If i am asked 'what is good? my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I am asked 'How is good to be defined?' my answer is that it cannot be defined, and that is all I have to say about it”
Source: Principia Ethica
“If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.”
“If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.”
“If I am at the same place, I was last year in regards to self-improvement, goals etc. I will take my own self back behind the wood shed and have a come to Jesus session as that is just unacceptable period!”
“If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.”
“If I am awarded a pardon for my philanthropic work, great; if not, I will continue to be involved in the community and to work just as hard, if not harder, to prevent kids from going down the same road and making the same mistakes.”
“If I am bending the truth because it refuses to adhere to my agenda, I must realize that in the bending the truth has forewarned me that I am not crafting an agenda at all. Rather, I am crafting the trajectory of my own demise. And even though I adamantly reject such a notion as preposterous, it is a truth that I cannot bend.”
“If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.”
“If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.”