I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.”
“If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.”
“If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.”
“If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.”
“If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.”
“If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.”
“If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.”
“If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.”
Source: The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays
“If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.”
“If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.”
“If I want to be remembered as anything in this life it's just 'nice'.I feel like being nice to others is the coolest thing anyone can be.”
“If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.”
“If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.”
“If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.”
Source: You Can Heal Your Life Gift
“If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.”
“If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.”
“If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.”
“If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?”
Source: Non-Violent Resistance
“If I want to die drunk, then I’ll die drunk, thank you and good night.”
Source: Five Survive
“If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
“If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.”
“If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.”
“If I want to do something powerful or special, then I contact people I think are smart, educated, inspiring and I'll say, "What are you doing? How can I help?"”
“If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.”
“If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.”
“If I want to dress up like Princess Leia and lightsaber fight the clone army in my living room, well the Han Solo in my life is just going to have to accept it.”
“If I want to eat lunch, I can't go out at noon and head over to Chick-fil-A or Mac's restaurant and not get stopped.”
“If I want to 'f' a guy, I want to 'f' a guy.”
Source: Bound by Honor
“If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.”
“If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater than the pain of the desire. If I develop the habit of restraining myself, I'll enjoy the relief of feeling the desires pass, and I'll remember that desires are not the problem. Feeling pushed around by them is. I'll continue to have desires, of course, because I'm alive, but they'll be more modest in their demands.”
Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
“If I want to fuck a guy, I want to fuck a guy.”
Source: Bound by Honor
“If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit.”
“If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I'll fire up my season 2 DVD of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'”
“If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.”
Source: Stained
“If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.”
“If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.”
“If I want to hang out with people, they unfortunately need to be working as often as I am.”
“If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.”
“If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.”
“If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.”
“If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.”
“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.”
“If I want to know how I'd have shown up in the last civil rights era, I have to ask myself: How am I showing up today, in this civil rights era?”
Source: Untamed
“If I want to know how I'm doing at work, I don't wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.”
“If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.”
“If I want to live in a peaceful world, then it is up to me to make sure that I am a peaceful person. No matter how others behave, I keep peace in my heart. I declare peace in the midst of chaos or madness. I surround all difficult situations with peace and love.”
“If I want to make - I don't know - strawberry jam, I'm going to have to add something to strawberries to make it gelatinous and thick, right? I'm going to have to add pectin or something like that.But if I want to make cranberry sauce, all I have to do is pop some cranberries in a little saucepan and when it cools off, it'll be thick and gelatinous. So what's up with cranberries?”
“If I want to make a grime tune I'll go ahead and do it, but I don't really have the urge to right now.”
“If I want to peddle rumour, I'll write a book and make money from it. Rumour peddling is very stressful and I think anything stressful ought to be rewarding.”
“If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.”