I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss.”
“If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.”
“If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!”
“If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?”
“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”
“If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'”
“If I had only one friend left, i'd want it to be you.”
“If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.”
“If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.”
“If I had only one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of him.”
“If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.”
“If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.”
Source: Three-Score & Ten
“If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.”
“If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.”
“If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.”
“If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.”
“If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.”
“If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth”
Source: On the Jews & Their Lies
“If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.”
“If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.”
“If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.”
“If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.”
Source: True Grit
“If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.”
“If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.”
Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.”
“If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.”
“If I had signed my fourth season of SNL, I wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to do Curb Your Enthusiasm. If my buddy OG Pearson wouldn't have passed away, I wouldn't have been in L.A. for his memorial, and I would've never auditioned for Curb.”
“If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.”
“If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I'd be golden.”
“If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.”
“If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.”
“If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.”
“If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.”
“If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, left over, living dead. You must look at them carefully. Their appearance is deceptive. They are smugglers. They look like the others. They eat, they laugh, they love. The seek money, fame, love. Like the other. But it isn't true; they are playing, sometimes without even knowing it. Anyone who has seen what THEY have seen cannot be like the others, cannot laugh, love, pray, bargain, suffer, have fun, or forget. Like the others. You have to watch them carefully when they pass by an innocent-looking smokestack, or when they lift a piece of bread to their mouths. Something in them shudders and makes you turn your eyes away. These people have been amputated; they haven't lost their legs or eyes, but their will and their taste for life. The things they have seen will come to the surface again sooner or later. And then the world will be frightened and won't dare look these spiritual cripples in the eye.”
Source: All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
“If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.”
“If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.”
“If I had stayed on that mattress forever and Luke had stayed on top of his bed and turned away from me I would have lived forever seeing his shadow.”
Source: To Rest Our Minds and Bodies
“If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.”
“If I had stayed working in Florida, there is a high probability I would have died in hurricane Ian.”
“If I had still been an immortal, I might have flirted with her myself. But I was now a sixteen-year-old boy. My mortal form was working its way upon my state of mind. I saw Sally Jackson as a mom—a fact that both consternated and embarrassed me. I thought about how long it had been since I had called my own mother. I should probably take her to lunch when I got back to Olympus.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.”
Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence
“If I had stuck to the contemporary definition of the purpose of scientific literature, I would have never been able to create the works that I have created.
Science is the most influential tool of progress in the world, not one among many, but most, yet no scientist had tried to use it as a primary tool for harmony.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.”
“If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!”
“If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.”
“If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.”
“If I had the ability to influence people all over the world just by speaking or writing, one of my objectives would be find out how America became special and then tell everybody.”
“If I had the authority to pick and choose who gets to know Christ as Savior, that would make me God. Thank the one true God that I am not.”
“If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.”
Source: Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon