I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.”
“If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?”
“If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.”
“If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.”
“If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?”
“If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.”
“If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.”
“If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.”
“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.”
“If I can't take Jesus Christ with me, I don't want to go.”
“If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.”
“If I can't write it would be as if I died.”
“If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.”
“If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.”
Source: Complete Essays
“If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“If I cannot be better
than them, I will become so much worse.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse." - Jude Duarte”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse
- Jude Duarte, the Cruel Prince”
“If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
“If I cannot fix your broken heart can I put mine in its place, because these stars are not enough, and all the money in the world does not equal your worth.”
Source: Love Quotes
“If I cannot fly, let me sing.”
“If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?”
Source: Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez
“If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.”
“If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
Source: If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“if i cannot keep heartcliff for my friend — if edgar will be mean and jealous, i’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own. (catherine, ch. XI, p. 116)”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
“If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival.”
Source: Peter Simple
“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”
“If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”
“If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.”
“If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.”
“If I cannot trust myself to love the right person, what can I trust?”
Source: Perfect Lies
“If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.”
“If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.”
“If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?' If you sould ever see my face, you will lose me forever.' Why?' Psyche wanted to know. 'Are you ugly? Are you afraid I won't love you if I see your face?' Perhaps I am afraid that if you see my face, it will be THAT that you will love and not me.' I understand, believe me. I know what that feels like.”
“If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.”
“If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.”
“If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.”
“If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.”
Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series
“If I cared for my life I would have lost it long ago; wanting to lose it I cannot throw it away”
“If I carried Catherine to the top of Mount Corcovado and placed her before the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Jesus would close his eyes and turn his back on her. If she touched his feet, the six million stone tiles that covered the religious figure would catch fire and fall like fiery rain,”
Source: Finding Gideon
“If I catch them, I will kill them.”