I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart.”
“If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.”
“If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.”
“if i am holding you without hands, how am i supposed to let go?”
“If I am honest I will admit that I have always wanted to avoid love. Yes give me romance, give me sex, give me fights, give me all the parts of love but not the simple single word which is so complex and demands the best of me this hour this minute this forever.”
Source: The World and Other Places: Stories
“If I am honest, it's hard for me to keep my promise to myself and to Gail to hate my father and only love my mother, especially on the days Gail takes everything out on me. Instead of blaming her, I learn to blame myself. After all, I am the one who swore total allegiance to her.”
Source: Earth to Moon: A Memoir
“If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.”
“If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.”
“If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“If I am in a state of becoming, it has no endpoint. I imagine replacing the memories of everyone I've ever spoken to with the impression that they have only ever seen me as a being clothed in light.
In the early part of the twentieth century, homophobes and eugenicists joined forces to study what they called inversion, an early term for homosexuality, gender nonconformity, and transness. They believed they could read and police queerness on the body.
Maybe this is why I don't want to make myself legible. I want to erase the meanings that have been ascribed to my breath, to my sweat, to my hair and fat and skin. I trace the green veins in my neck that branch down into my breasts as feathers. I am painting myself as the bird that, to the world outside this room, does not exist. I draw myself clothed in wings and tell myself that even the angels are sexless.”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“If I am in fashion, it is really due to very few designers that I admire - not because I don't like the rest, or that the rest are not beautiful, but because I am very selective. I adore Versace. I adore Helmut Lang, despite the fact that it's over.”
“If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.”
“If I am in love, many things about the world, not just the immediate object of my love, seem lovable. To say 'I love X' is somehow really to say 'X inspires love in me', and that love then attaches itself to objects other than X as well. The expansiveness of love is a natural means of ascent between levels.”
“If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?”
“If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.”
“If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.”
“If I am inconsiderate about the comfort of others, or their feelings, or even of their little weaknesses; if I am careless about their little hurts and miss opportunities to smooth their way; if I make the sweet running of household wheels more difficult to accomplish, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.”
“If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!”
Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston
“If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually.”
“If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.”
“If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”
“If I am less kind than I was yesterday, then I am failing as a human being.”
“If I am living out a lesser version of myself, I have allowed the fear of ‘who I could be’ to fall prey to the apathy of ‘who I am.’ And if ‘what I could be’ dies the death of cowardice, ‘who I am’ never really lived at all.”
“If I am lucky and find material that is interesting to me, I want to make it.”
“If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.”
“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
Source: The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
“If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.”
“If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.”
“If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
“If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.”
Source: A Wild Yearning
“If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having concerned myself with such people, because I think that most of us are disturbed.”
“If I am not a servant to others, by process of elimination I am then a servant to myself. And that serves no one.”
“If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.”
“If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.”
“If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.”
“If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.”
“If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.”
“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And when I am for myself, then what am “I”? And if not now, when?”
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?
And if not now, when?”
“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?”
“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.”
“If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.”
“If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.”
“If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.”
“If I am not moving I get bored very easily.”
“If I am not persistent with my desire to think about other things, and consciously initiate new circuits of thought, then those uninvited loops can generate new strength and begin monopolizing my mind again. To counter their activities, I keep a handy list of three things available for me to turn my consciousness toward when I am in a state of need: 1) I remember something I find fascinating that I would like to ponder more deeply, 2) I think about something that brings me terrific joy, or 3) I think about something I would like to do.”
Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
“If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.”