I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.”
“If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.”
“If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.”
“If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.”
“If I put my foot on the floor and pretend that his is just behind the leg of the table, will that foot, like a starship that has turned on its cloaking device, like a ghost summoned by the living, suddenly materialize from its dimple in space and say, I know you've beckoned. Reach and you'll find me?”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“If I put my imagination on a leash what I’ve really done is to put a noose around its neck.”
“If I put my mind to it, and I put the work in, I have no doubt I could do it (pitch 4-5 additional years), but I made a promise to the people who've supported me for so many years. It's time to give back to my family.”
“If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.”
“If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I always feel like there's something around me protecting me.”
“If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.”
“If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love”
Source: If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?
“If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.”
“If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general march of industrial culture as something undesirable, the one thing I must be beware of doing and which my colleagues on that side don't beware of doing, we must beware of saying we've got to stop changing the environment. There is no 'the' environment which we can change, the world is changing all the time.”
“If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.”
“If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.”
“If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!”
“If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!”
“If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.”
“If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.”
“If I quit now,... They win!”
“If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."”
“If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.”
“If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.”
“If I ran the Web, you could email dead people.”
“If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.”
“If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.”
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
“If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.”
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.”
“If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.”
“If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.”
“If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!”
“If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.”
“If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.”
Source: The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
“If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.”
“If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.”
“If I read the Bible, I can also find a few harsh verdicts. Every religion can be abused. We're not talking here about religion and faith. We are talking about the politicization of Islam, and, by the way, it is first and foremost exerting pressure on the majority of peaceful Muslims who live here in Germany.”
“If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!”
“If I read this right, Gunther had not come to offer me congratulations. I will not give him the sat-isfaction of thinking me scared or insecure. I will fake calm, confident, and regal.”
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.”
“If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.”
“If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don't have access to the contraceptives they need?”
“If I really believe that my timing is perfect, maybe the thing that’s perfect is my denial about my timing. And if that’s the case, maybe now is the perfect time to be honest about that.”
“If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.”
“If I really believed in karma, I would constantly have to look over my shoulder. The universe would surely have some horrible fate coming for me.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position and orientation, then the world is bettered by my effort at understanding and comprehension. If you respond to my effort by trying to extend the same sympathy and understanding to others in turn, then the betterment of the world has been minutely but significantly extended. We want people to feel with us, more than to act for us.”