I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.”
“If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.”
“If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.”
Source: Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen
“If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.”
“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“If I knew you and you knew me- If both of us could clearly see, And with an inner sight divine The meaning of your heart and mine I'm sure that we would differ less And clasp our hands in friendliness: Our thoughts would pleasantly agree, If I knew you and you knew me.”
Source: Boy Wanted
“If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?”
Source: Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery
“If I know a song of Africa - I thought - of the giraffe, and the African new moon lying on her back, of the ploughs in the fields, and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me?”
Source: Out of Africa
“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”
“If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.”
“If I know anything about women, I know they’re not going to accept infidelity any way you serve it up. I don't care what they say. No one wants the one they love running around on 'em,”
Source: Detour Amour
“If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.”
Source: Freedom Evolves
“If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.”
“If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.”
Source: Collected Works
“If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.”
“If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words and you're trying really hard to get them the way they said it.”
“If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.”
“If I know I will be around large numbers of people, I will wear a hazmat suit.”
“If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.”
“If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.”
“If I know one thing, it's of the inductive nature of failures.”
“If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.”
Source: The Moth Diaries
“If I know something well, it no longer makes me say "wow" even if it's really terrific, even if it's a great iteration of it, because I know it well.”
“If I know that a man is cruel to his Beast, I ask no more questions about him. He may be a noble man, or a rich man, or a polite man, or a sensible man, or a learned man, or an orthodox man, or a church man, or a puritan, or any thing else, it matters not; this I know, on the sacred word of a wise King, that, being cruel to his beast, he is a WICKED man.”
Source: The Duty of Mercy: A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals
“If I know that I belong to a self-satisfied elite who are sacrificing the common good through an excess of arrogance, this liberates me from criticism, and I come out with twice the prestige.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.”
Source: Sermons
“If I know that my troops are capable of striking the enemy, but do not know that he is invulnerable to attack, my chance of victory is but half.
If I know that the enemy is vulnerable to attack, but do not know that my troops are incapable of striking him, my chance of victory is but half.
If I know that the enemy can be attacked and that my troops are capable of attacking him, but do not realize that because of the conformation of the ground I should not attack, my chance of victory is but half.”
Source: The Art of War
“If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.”
“If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen...”
“If I know the outcome is not going to devastate my life, it makes me so much more excited for everything that's to come.”
“If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!”
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings
“If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.”
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings
“If I
know this, it's because I've seen it in a dream.”
Source: Heaven
“If I know what ecstasy is, it is because of agony.
If I know what freedom is, it is because of slavery.”
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
“If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that.”
“If I know what something's about, and I can always have that touchstone, I feel like I can reach for really ridiculous humor and also go really dark in terms of the things I'm afraid of.”
“If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I must do in response, then an economist would say that is sufficient information for a market to emerge between you and me.”
“If I know what your messages are, if I can read those, I'll probably be able to conclude where you're going, who you're with, the location the message was sent.”
“If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.”
“If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.”
“If I know your closest friends, I can accurately predict your future.”
“If I known it would be like this, I would have taken you sooner.”
Source: Unstoppable
“If I laced my wings with decorative patterns to impress the masses, then I wouldn't be able to fly. - The Malwatch”
“If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?”
“If I laid a wager on which was to panic first, a block of granite or Jamuqa, I'd go the granite.”
Source: Imaginary Kings
“If I lay aside the demands to be the craftsman and embrace the role of being the tool, in the right hands the impossible becomes impossible.”
“If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.”
“If I lean unbuttoned into the blow
Of loss after loss, love tossed
Into the ecstatic void--
It carries me with it farther,
To chords that stretch and bend
Like light through colored glass.
But it races on, toward shadows
Where the world I know
And the world I fear
Threaten to meet.”
Source: Duende
“If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.”