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 sing, it would be lovely.”
“If I could slide myself into the
Palm of your hands.
I'd split myself into five slender
stems,
So all of me could fit into the
Vase of your hands.
Between the stems there is
A piece of me that I've hidden,
Wild in proximity to you.
Between your thumbs
I've succumb to the tenderness
of your smile.
Though petite, my day is no
longer incomplete.
So I took a seat, and watched
the sun rise from your smile
for just a while longer”
Source: More Songs to Listen to at Midnight
“If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.”
“If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.”
Source: Thinking in Pictures
“If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.”
“If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.”
“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.”
“If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice.”
“If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made.”
“If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.”
“If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.”
“If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.”
Source: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
“If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.”
“If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.”
“If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.”
“If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.”
“If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too.
In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to land the dismount from the old pain. I successfully let go of any blame or desire from a different version of a dad. He and I were both grateful when I could just easily and simply sit with him in love.”
Source: End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
“If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.”
“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”
“If I could summarize everything I have learned from my praxis, it is this: Every human being can and must contribute to this world. I believe that contributing to the world in meaningful ways is non-negotiable. Yet at the same time, most people never realize their dreams of making meaningful contributions. Most people I have met in most places, including in the West itself, feel unfulfilled. They feel alienated from what they love and what they do, regardless of where they are or what they do. Fulfilment seems to be reserved solely for the few privileged elites primarily interested in dominating everything under the sun, including knowledge production.”
“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.”
“If I could take a bite of the whole world
And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for a minute or so...
But I don’t always want to be happy.
Sometimes you have to be
Unhappy to be natural...
Not every day is sunny.
When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.
So I take unhappiness with happiness
Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange
That there are mountains and plains
And that there are cliffs and grass...
What you need is to be natural and calm
In happiness and in unhappiness,
To feel like someone seeing,
To think like someone walking,
And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,
And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...
That’s how it is and that’s how it should be...”
Source: The Keeper of Sheep
“If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.”
“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, ‘No, you stay home tonight, you won’t be welcome’/ because I’m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or I’m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution”
“If I could take my entire savings in place of something, I’d chose time.”
“If I could take your place, I would die for you a hundred times over."
[如可贖兮、人百其身。
'Rú kě shú xī, rén bǎi qí shēn.]”
Source: Till Death Do Us Part
“If I could take your troubles
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend that is always there.”
“If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.”
“If I could teach my children only one thing, it would be the skill of marketing. For with that skill, they could be successful at anything they chose for the rest of their lives.”
“if I could tell my very-younger self something, I would tell him to let loose more often. I think it all roots in sexuality, but because of that, I became so worried about everything — worried about what people thought. I was afraid to be creative and charismatic and eccentric. Just to do things to do things, like dancing. I was afraid of looking too flamboyant or something. I would tell myself to stop being so stressed about what other people are thinking. Stop being so afraid that something may not come off the right way.”
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.”
Source: Photo story: selected letters and photographs of Lewis W. Hine
“If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken”
“If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.”
“If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK”
“If I could tell you about Red
I would sing to you of fire Sweet like cherries
Burning like cinnamon Smelling like a rose in the sun”
Source: Rainbows Around Us
“If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.”
“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it”
“If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.”
“If I could time travel, I wouldn’t tell anybody, because who would believe me? I mean, obviously I can time travel, because how do you think I move forward in life?”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.”
“If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.”
“If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.”
Source: The Haunted
“If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.”
“If I could trade places with any of my sisters for a day, it would be Kim. I want to see what it's like...The only time she sleeps is on the airplane. It's just crazy. I feel bad for her, but I still want to know what it's like.”
“If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that have hurt you
And you'd stay”
“If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!”
“If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.”
“If I could understand everything the way I do now, I could make it all--and then it just stopped. Leaving me with that feeling like when you figure out something brilliant and profound in a dream, but you wake up, and all you remember is that you knew this amazing thing, and now it's just out of reach.”
Source: Willow: Wonderland
“If I could understand that every ‘reality’ was once a ‘wish’, and that it moved from the latter to the former because someone was committed enough to make it so, I’d be the person that I want verses the person I’ve become.”