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 the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
“If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?”
“If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.”
Source: So You Love an... Alcoholic?: Lessons for a Codependent
“If I am to be a cat, let me give you a scratch.”
Source: The Wicked King
“If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.”
“If I am to be associated with your devil, then for your own good I suggest you do not take me for his whore, though I’m sure she’s equally terrifying,” She cocks her head slightly, trying to remember the details of their dark anti god. “I suppose just the devil would do, that would give you enough warning I believe.”
Source: Hymn of The Night
“If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable.”
“If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.”
“If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!”
“If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.”
“If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien.”
“If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.”
“If I am to become naught but ruin, may it be so that you can build anew upon the ashes.”
Source: Heart of Flames
“If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.”
“If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.”
“If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter.”
“If I am to excel in this life in any manner that is worthwhile, I must understand that ease is not a lifestyle. Rather, it is the brief and very momentary gift that we are granted because we have spent the bulk of our time purposely engaging that which is hard.”
“if i am to feel sure of anything, i must learn to feel sure of me”
“If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770
“If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.”
Source: Complete Essays
“If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.”
“If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.”
Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
“If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.”
“If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading or deflationary, but if I am told it had to happen because you are such a wonderful person that I couldn't possibly resist your charms, or because we are so incredibly compatible, then necessity seems very romantic.”
“If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don't begin soon. It works sometimes.”
“If I am too busy to read The Bible ... am I too busy?”
“If I am totally honest, I would have to say that ''Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny.”
“If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they're working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy.”
“If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.”
Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS
“If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.”
“If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?”
“If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world are, in fact, coming from that perpetually unfinished part of me-the pulls and tugs originating from my own ambiguity.”
“If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.”
“If I am unable to believe that I am more than happenstance, I have chosen to behave as a person of accident verses standing as a man of purpose.”
“If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.”
“If I am undressed, he will know me.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.”
“If I am unwilling to step up and look beyond the stunted reach of my own agendas, if I am unwilling embrace the truth even though it may run frustratingly contrary to my most innate desires, if I am unwilling to respect my fellowman even though our disagreements may be irritatingly vast...if I am so lifelessly entrenched in the bane of my own immaturity that I am ignorantly unwilling to do these things and rather choose to play the fool dressed in the garb of wisdom and other such assorted notions, 'common sense' will always be a phrase but never a standard.”
“If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.”
“If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.”
“If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?”
Source: Lun Yü
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?”
“If I am
What survives I am here but I am not
Much of anything at all To be what’s left
And all the rest scooped out”
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”