I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.”
Source: The War of Mists
“If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.”
“If I could make anything disappear, it would be hate.”
“If I could make crazy money just doing stand-up, that's what I would do.”
“If I could make it better I would,” he says. In some ways it’s a stupid, obvious thing to say, but the way he said it, so honest and simple like it’s the truest thing there is, makes the tears prick in my eyes. (Before I Fall)”
Source: Before I Fall
“If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.”
“If I could make my neighbors up, I could love them in a minute. I could make them in my own image, looking back at me with deep gratitude for how authentically human I am being to them—and they to me!—reading poetry to each other, admiring pictures of each other’s grandchildren, and taking casseroles to each other when we are sick. But nine times out of ten these are not the neighbors I get. Instead, I get neighbors who cancel my vote, burn trash in their yard, and shoot guns so close to my house that I have to wear an orange vest when I walk to the mailbox. These neighbors I did not make up knock on my front door to offer me the latest issue of The Watchtower. They put things on their church signs that make me embarrassed for all Christians everywhere. They text while they drive, flipping me off when I pass their expensive pickup trucks on the right, in spite of the fish symbols on their shiny rear bumpers.”
Source: Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
“If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.”
“If I could make one rule that everybody would have to follow… Stay Unique, Remain Humble and Kind, and Grow Empathy for others.”
“If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.”
“If I could make the ripples dance to create futures for my sister, I would. As beautiful as the tiny globes of spherical seawater she used to toy with when we were kids--tiny worlds in their own right, of different colors and sizes, floating in midair. I would have arranged everything so she would get a kind and gentle ending. None of them would end with her lying on the ground, helpless and wake. In fact, if I could, I would remove all endings for her. I would give her a way out, a loophole in this infallible mechanism of time.”
Source: Laut Stories
“If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you do make that kind of money doing standup, it's not in clubs, it's in big auditoriums and large venues, and I really think something is lost when you do standup for a big crowd.”
“If I could make this go away, I would. If I could stand in your place, I wouldn't hesitate. But I'm left with one choice, and that's to stand by your side through the end. I won't waver, Angel, I can promise you that. -Patch to Nora”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.”
“If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad—if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law—it would become my law.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad — if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law — it would become my law.
It finally had to.
I understood that it wouldn’t be easy, it would be very hard; I’d need to resist the habit I had developed long ago – with conviction. I’d have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that discomfort would add up to zap predatory threats like a Taser gun. I’d stun them. They’d bow to me. I’d let my no echo against the mountains.
And better to feel bad for a moment saying no – and stop it – than to get harmed.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.”
“If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.”
“If I could meet Rembrandt right where he had painted father and son, God and humanity, compassion and misery, in one circle of love, I would come to know as much as I ever would about death and life. I also sensed the hope that through Rembrandt’s masterpiece I would one day be able to express what I most wanted to say about love.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be out there somehow.”
“If I could never really be like other people, then at least I would be like myself and make the best of it.”
Source: My Left Foot
“If I could not be peaceful in the midst of danger, then the kind of peace I might have in simpler times would not mean anything.”
Source: The Sun My Heart
“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.”
“If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.”
“If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.”
“If I could not write, I could not kill you and that would be the cause of my death.”
“If I could offer a single prescription for the survival of America, and particularly black America, it would be to restore the family. And if you asked me how to do it, my answer - doubtlessly oversimplified - would be; save the boys.”
Source: Looking Backward at Us
“If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.”
“If I could offer only one tool to help you attract more of what you want, it would be what is commonly called NAPS (Night Audio Programs).”
Source: NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
“If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.”
“If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.”
“If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.”
“If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.”
“If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'”
Source: The last lecture
“If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.”
“If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.”
“If I could only live another century!”
“If I could only meet Sally in the silent reading room of the public library, it wouldn’t make any difference.”
Source: The Choir
“If I could only pray, he thought, if there was only some reservoir of force out of which I could draw something extra.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.”
Source: I Thought of Daisy
“If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.”
“If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.”
“If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.”
“If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.”
“If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.”
“If I could pick my wife by name, It'd be Whitney. That name just sounds right”
“If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.”