I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.”
“If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.”
“If I marry a woman like you, I shall not become a father, I shall become a sex worker.”
“If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.”
“If I masturbate while Googling myself, which part is more redundant?”
“If I mate with you, we are connected for eternity,” he pulled back. His gold eyes shimmered in the darkening room.
“I don’t think it will be long enough,” she confessed.”
Source: Puma Pride
“If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.”
“If I may be permitted to liken America to the human body, then I think it is fair to say that California is its face, New York is its brain and Texas is its heart. If you wanna know what makes America tick, get your ten-gallon hat on, and get yourself to Texas.”
Source: Motorworld
“If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.”
“If I may leave you with one request, let it be this:
Take care of your soul with tenderness.
It carries more than you realize, and it deserves your gentleness.
Return to it often, and return to it kindly.”
Source: THE INVISIBLE THREAD: Recognizing What Has Been Holding You All Along
“If I may make a football analogy, we're a team whether we're a football team or community or the United States of America. We are part of a team and I believe the people on that team have a right, but they also have the obligation if there is something that is not good or we don't agree on, to speak about it.”
“If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.”
“If I may say so,' said Appleby, 'Your district seems to be a hotbed of sexual immorality. The people are as promiscuous as old Amos Sturrock's goats.'
'Amos Sturrock's goats are not promiscuous.' Mutlow was suddenly indignant. 'They are uncommonly gently bred.”
Source: Appleby's End
“If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.”
Source: David Copperfield
“If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.”
“If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.”
Source: William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life
“If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne,
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.”
“If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.”
“If I may, to underline first of all that I am very much impressed that in spite of the very tough election campaign, this transition period in the United States of America follows democratic principles and is all about the American people. It's about the destiny of the American people.”
“If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“If I measure my success around some else’s, I pretty much am denying my existence.”
Source: Run Uninterrupted
“If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two of us.”
“If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy.”
“If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'”
“If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.”
Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics
“If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?”
“If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade.”
“If I mention my father is blind, the response is rarely one of immediate concern or pity.…. The audience in receipt of this bare fact seems always to be in need of comfort. I cannot provide comfort. He cannot see light.
My life with lupus often provokes a similar response in others: the desire to be comforted. By me. The sufferer.”
Source: LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity
“If I met me, I would say a quick hello and then think that I was a really nice girl.”
“If I met President Obama, I would ask him this question: Did you know the Desoto Solar Farm was dangerous and everything around you was switched off when you launched it to the world's media?”
“If I met you for the first time now, I would choose you all over again.”
“If I might ask--," she began. Will sighed. "You know you'll ask whether I say it's all right or not.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world”
“If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.”
“If I might have but one of her feet to kiss," thought Cosmo, "I should be content." Alas! he deceived himself, for passion is never content.”
Source: Phantastes
“If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven.”
Source: Beauty Is a Wound
“If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.”
“If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.”
“If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.”
“If I miss my moment, I may never get another chance. And if I don't get another chance, he'll never know that I was looking in the first place. Because that's the kind of person he is, the kind of person that makes you want to look.”
Source: A Little Something Different
“If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.”
“If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.”
“If I missed out on some really big action, I’m going to be royally pissed off!”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.”
“If I move, if I speak, if I so much as blink, I'm going to lose this battle.”
“If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.”
“If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.”
Source: The Greatest Secret In The World
“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.”
“If I must die as a writer, I will die as the first multi-cultural writer in history.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers