I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.”
“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for." Banks tells me. "But there was something about her that precluded an ordinary existence. In some ways, I'm not surprised she's dead. A job, husband, kids, a beach house? That wasn't her. I can't explain why, except she was more like a force that whipped through life, defying logic, scaring you, even hurting you because she was everything you wanted to be, but you knew you'd never have the guts - and then she was gone. That was my experience with Ashley Cordova.”
Source: Night Film
“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”
“If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.”
“If I learned one thing from my ride in this world thus far, it is never to take anything for granted. Life has a way of humbling us, and anytime I felt I mastered this game of life, it proved me wrong. So, my advice is to live this life to the fullest and make your existence count. When you complete this journey, don’t depart without leaving your marks. Make sure that your time here is worthy.”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.”
“If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.”
“If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.”
“If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.”
“If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese / Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen: Englisch und Deutsch
“If I leave Chelsea, I would be
unprofessional ,just because I am not playing
does not mean that I don't love Chelsea. I
am not leaving.”
“If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?”
“If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.”
“If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.”
“If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.”
“If I leave this world with only kindness as my legacy, it will be enough.”
“If I leave you alone, and you leave me alone, we are both better off. And I will leave you alone if you leave me alone. And there is a lot of traction to be gained from that.”
“If I leave you, won't I be leaving a part of myself too?”
Source: Dark little corners
“If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.”
Source: A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal
“If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.”
“If I left you
I'd leave a letter full of lyrics
But you wouldn't know me well enough
To get it.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“If I lend my support to a specific cause, it has to be something that I look over and that I have a complete understanding of and it's not just some extracurricular bullshit.”
“If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.”
“If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.”
“If I let Becca back into my life, I wouldn't be as good a friend to Sathnam. I would have less time for him, yes, but it was more than that. Emotional resources can be finite too. My relationship with him would carry less weight because how can he trust me if, in my desperation to accumulate friends and never let them go, I spread my love so thinly, and allow myself to be treated to badly, with so few boundaries, that the act of my friendship itself carried no meaning.”
Source: Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
“If I let Gallowglass just pluck out my pain like a dead tooth, then I wouldn’t learn nothin’ from all those years on the needle. Eventually, I’d just find a way to fuck up all over again, twice as bad. Sometimes it’s our scars that hold us together, Noah.”
Source: Redfork
“If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead!”
“If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.”
“If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.”
“If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”
Source: Vampire Academy
“If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.”
“If I let the noise get out into the air it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear, and then there will be hurrying footsteps and commands and who knows? Judgment: emotion inappropriate to the occasion. The wandering womb, they used to think. Hysteria. And then a needle, a pill. It could be fatal.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale
“If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.”
“If I let you go are you going to hit me again?”
“What do you think?”
“Then I’m not going to let you go.”
Source: Her Best Friend
“If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig
further about truth that force me do it, then you would
understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“If I lie down on my bed I must be here,
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.”
Source: New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
“IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to build the best character, then I am going to stick on the lie. This is the thingy which helps us to get out of...”
“If I lied, you'd smell it, so I'll stick with that's no concern of yours and suggest you leave it at that.”
Source: Raised by Wolves
“If I light my candle at yours, am I getting fire for free, when otherwise I would have had to pay for matches? Does that make it a ‘commercial’ act?”
Source: The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
“If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.”
“If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.”
“If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.”
“If I like a moment, I don't like to have the distraction of camera - I just want to stay in it.”
“If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.”
“If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.”
“If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.”
“If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!”
“If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.”