I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.”
“If I become the most popular author in jump, please give me the right to end one manga I hate.”
“If I began to draw
myself away from you
we’d still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a donkey." But if I write, "I have taken so many drugs I can't see my feet," the tendency is to take that as a confession on the part of the poet. Maybe that doesn't matter. I'd almost prefer for it to be the other way round.”
“If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.”
“If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.”
“If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be.”
Source: Shopaholic Ties The Knot: (Shopaholic Book 3)
“If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.”
Source: Aleph
“If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can't stress enough that I detest writing, it's something that sticks with me not from any English class but from some awfully recondite driver's ed. seminars I had the privilege to audit during my mid-teens, and to this day I probably misunderstand it anyway. It's the term "right of way."”
“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”
Source: Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs
“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.”
“If I believe in God at all, it is my choice to believe. If my inner self tells me to believe in God- then I believe. I believe because I fell God's presence, and my heart tells me He is there. But if I no longer feel God's presence, and if my heart suddenly tells me that there is no God-I will cease believing. Either way, the real source of authority is my own feelings. So even while saying that I believe in God, the truth is that I have a much stronger belief in my own inner voice.”
Source: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.”
“If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.”
“If I Believe in the Wish, I must believe I can loose it”
Source: True Love
“If I believe in the wish, I must believe I can lose it.”
Source: True Love
“If I believe my ability is small, then my efforts will be shallow and my push weak. If I think I am not capable, I will not try with energy. Without strong belief, I won’t seek the knowledge required to achieve my goals. I will not launch out into the deep or push against obstacles with the force that confidence brings.”
“If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.”
“If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.”
“If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.”
“If I believe the Bible, then I don't believe that a gay lifestyle or a homosexual lifestyle is the right way to choose to live. I believe that there's something so much better.”
“If I believe the good, then I have to believe the bad.”
“If I believe, truly
believe
our souls
are meant to cross paths, in each and
every life, traversing millennia and repeating
this sweet interaction time and
time again
Then what is one lifetime
where those interactions are
cut short
- For the Departed”
Source: No One Reads Poetry: A Collection of Poems
“If I believe your jobs plan, I'm going to vote for you.”
“If I believed a giant Platypus was coming to liberate humanity and save us all, it would still make more sense than the climate denial people do......”
“If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots”
“If I believed in hell, I'd definitely be going there.”
“If I believed in karma, I would probably be a fly in my next life because of all the messed-up crap I’d done in this one.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“If I believed in polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning.”
“If I believed that, then I’d have to believe it was fate for Kyle to die at such a young age. I’d much rather believe shit just happens.
Injured in a fire? Shit happens.
Lost your career? Shit happens.
Lost the love of your life to a widow with an infant? Shit happens.”
Source: November 9
“If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
Source: If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?
“If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.”
“If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
“If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.”
“If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you.”
“If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.”
“If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.”
Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.”
“If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.”
Source: ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change
“If I bother you so much, why did you let me kiss you again in that hospital? Is the reason to screw up my head more, to see if you still have the knack for it? Because congratulations Nell, you’ve succeeded yet again.”
Source: Never Another You
“If i bought something that didn't warrant more than three wearings, I did not need it.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.”
“If I breathe you in and you breathe me out, I swear we can breathe forever. I swear I’ll find summer in your winter and spring in your autumn and always, hands at the ends of your fingers, arms at the ends of your shoulders and I swear, when we run out of forever, when we run out of air, your name will be the last word that my lungs make air for.”
“If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.”
“If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.”
“If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.”
“If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.”
“If I brought you down to the size of an individual cell so that you could see your body from that perspective, it would offer a whole new view of the world. When you looked back at yourself from that perspective you would not see yourself as a single entity. You would see yourself as a bustling community of more than 50 trillion individual cells.”
Source: The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
“If I build my life on the things which God did not form He will have to destroy them, shake them back into chaos. That is why whenever a man, moral or immoral, sees for the first time the light of God in Jesus Christ it produces conviction of sin, and he cries out, 'Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
Source: Gems from genesis