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 worthless to you, so is my love and my heart. If you do not value me, you do not value my love.”
“If I am wounded, I have in turn been given the resources needed to heal the wounded person standing next to me.”
“If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.”
“If I am wrong educate me, don’t belittle me. But don’t educate me in a way that’s belittling.”
“If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.”
“If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.”
“If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader”
“If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.”
“If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations to a jury, it will have a deeply chilling effect on future whistleblowers working as I did to expose government abuse and overreach. It will chill speech. It will corrode the quality of our democracy.”
“If I, and this book, have anything to prove, it's that when you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you, too.”
Source: #Girlboss
“If I announce something i'm making sure I'm doing it.”
“If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.”
“If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.”
“If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache.”
“If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.”
Source: Collected Works
“If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionately cumbersome burden on women? Such a system demands that mothers become selfless to the point of near invisibility in order to construct these exemplary encironments for their families. And might those same social conservatives – instead of just praising mothers as “sacred” and “noble” – be willing to someday join a larger conversation about how we might work together as a society to construct a world where healthy children can be raised and healthy families can prosper without women have to scrape bare the walls of their own souls to do so?”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“If I, as a child, claim that something awful has happened—that someone has done something terrible to me—and everyone around me acts as if nothing is the matter, then either I must be crazy, or all of them are. And when you’re a kid and your life depends on all these people, there is no choice: of course, I must be crazy.”
Source: Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women
“If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life on it to a simple, pas- toral people, such as the tribes to whom the Book of Genesis was addressed, I could hardly do better than follow rather closely much of the language of the first chapter of Genesis.”
“If I ask anybody who learned to ski after the age of five, they can remember their first day of skiing-what the weather was like, who they went with, what they had for lunch. I believe that's because that first day on skis was the first day of total freedom in their life.”
“If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.”
“If I ask, will you answer? It’s your problem. A deep deep problem. I have no right to know. I don’t have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without it getting dirty. So I’ll wait. When you want to talk, when you think it’s okay to talk, talk to me. Until that time, I’ll wait.” - Rukia Kuchiki”
Source: Bleach, Volume 03
“If I ask you to dance, you'll know I've been waiting
So instead, I will whistle in the cold under my umbrella,
Carrying a tune that I know you'd be hating,
Killing what I want the most in case it won't want me.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.”
Source: Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
“If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.”
“If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein or Newton or something like that because their claims were supposed to apply universally. But the claim of somebody who is studying a particular feature of the evolutionary process like whether it's very fast or very slow, or occurs in steps and so on, that's not a universal claim, that's a rather specialised claim and so you can't claim to great fame and great success.”
“If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”
“If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me.”
“If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.”
“If I asked you something about basketball and you don't really know about basketball and you try to talk it and fake it, I'm going to be able to tell. It's the same way about music; you have to be real.”
“If I asked you to come here again,” he said, “and let me be with you, would you?”
There was no hesitation. “Yes.”
“Even if things couldn’t be…normal…between us? Sexually speaking.”
“Yes.”
He frowned. “This is going to come out wrong….”
“Which is fine, because I’ve already put my foot in it with you back at the clinic. We’ll just be even.”
Rehv had to smile, but the expression didn’t stick. “I have to know…why. Why would you come back.”
Ehlena lay back down against the pillows and, in a slow sweep, moved her hand up over the satin sheet that covered her stomach. “I have only one answer to that, but I don’t think it’s going to be what you want to hear.”
The cold numbness, which was returning as the remnants of those orgasms he’d had dissipated, sped up its reclamation of his body. Please let it not be pity, he thought. “Tell me.”
She was quiet for a long while, her stare shifting out toward the blinking, glowing view of Caldwell’s two halves.
“You ask me why I would come back?” she said softly. “And the only answer I have is…how could I not.” Her eyes flipped to his. “It doesn’t make sense to me on some level, but then, feelings don’t make sense, do they? And they don’t have to. Tonight…you gave me things I not only haven’t had for a long time, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt.” She shook her head. “I wrapped up a body yesterday…a body of someone my own age, a body of someone who likely as not had headed out of his house the evening he was killed with no clue that it was his last night. I don’t know where this”—she gestured back and forth between them—“thing with us is going. Maybe it’s just a night or two. Maybe it’s a month. Maybe it’s longer than can be measured by a decade. All I know is, life is too short not to come back here and be with you like this again. Life is just too short, and I like being with you too much for me to give a crap about anything other than having another moment like this.”
Rehvenge’s chest swelled as he stared at her.
“Ehlena?”
“Yeah?”
“Don’t take this the wrong way.”
She drew in a deep breath and he saw her bare shoulders tighten. “Okay. I’ll try not to.”
“You keep showing up here? Being who you are?” There was a pause. “I’m going to fall in love with you.”
-Rehv & Ehlena”
Source: Lover Avenged
“If I asked you to do something for me, I don't suppose you'd listen?" When he had my attention, he continued, "I'm going to take you home. Try to forget tonight happened. Try to act normal, especially around Hank. Don't mention my name." By way of an answer, I shot him a black look and swung out of the Tahoe. He followed suit, coming around to my side. "What kind of answer is that?" He asked, but his voice wasn't nearly so gruff.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale
“If I asked you to stay behind, would you?' His eyes bore into mine.
'No.'
'Exactly. I try not to pick fights I know I can't win.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.”
“If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.”
Source: The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success
“If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.”
“If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.”
“If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.”
“If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.”
“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.”
Source: The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick
“If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively”
Source: Unspoken
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will say everything about it except the simple and fairly obvious fact that it is wrong. Some will call it insane; that is, will accuse it of a deficiency of intelligence. This is not necessarily true at all. You could not tell whether the act was unintelligent or not unless you knew my grandmother. Some will call it vulgar, disgusting, and the rest of it; that is, they will accuse it of a lack of manners. Perhaps it does show a lack of manners; but this is scarcely its most serious disadvantage. Others will talk about the loathsome spectacle and the revolting scene; that is, they will accuse it of a deficiency of art, or æsthetic beauty. This again depends on the circumstances: in order to be quite certain that the appearance of the old lady has definitely deteriorated under the process of being beaten to death, it is necessary for the philosophical critic to be quite certain how ugly she was before. Another school of thinkers will say that the action is lacking in efficiency: that it is an uneconomic waste of a good grandmother. But that could only depend on the value, which is again an individual matter. The only real point that is worth mentioning is that the action is wicked, because your grandmother has a right not to be beaten to death. But of this simple moral explanation modern journalism has, as I say, a standing fear. It will call the action anything else—mad, bestial, vulgar, idiotic, rather than call it sinful.”
Source: All Things Considered
“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.”
“If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.”
“If I become a wizard, do I have to be celibate?” This seemed to puzzle Phillip. “No, you don’t have to be celibate. You can be, if that’s your thing.”
Source: Off to Be the Wizard
“If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.”
“If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public, and the scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one.”