I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If my heart is broken, I should be thankful that I was blessed to have loved but I cannot live that wisely. That's why I cry.”
“If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true. I will believe.”
“If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.”
“If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.”
“If my heart were not light, I would die.”
“If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.”
Source: The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty
“If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.”
Source: A Grief Observed Readers' Edition: With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely
“If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.”
“If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.”
“If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.”
“If my husband ever felt guilt, he never showed it. I always felt guilty. My efforts to stop him from gambling or change his horrible behavior always ended up with me apologizing for making him angry, or not trusting him, or making him feel inadequate as a person and as a provider for his family.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.”
“If my husband's going to kiss anybody, let it be Matt Damon.”
“If my imagination is taking me ‘away’ from something rather than taking me ‘to’ something, it was never imagination in the first place.”
“If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“If my independence threatens your ego, you are not the man for me.”
“If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.”
“If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward evidence in support of his contention. The burden of proof evidently lies on him; it is not for me to prove that no such beings exist before my non-belief is justified, but for him to prove that they do exist before my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly, it is for the affirmer of God's existence to bring evidence in support of his affirmation; the burden of proof lies on him.”
Source: The Origins of Theosophy (Routledge Revivals): Annie Besant - The Atheist Years
“If my jeans could talk, they'd plead for mercy.”
Source: The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young? And other silly questions
“If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?”
“If my job was to shovel, and shovel until eight hours had passed, then my body worked on its own. It had no use for my mind. So my mind would take off to a world of imagination. And that's where stand-up comedy started.”
Source: Based on a True Story: A Memoir
“If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to listen to the voiceless.”
“If my joys marked me as different, then I would paint them on my skin like an honor.”
Source: Church of Thieves
“If my khui resonates for someone else? I will not let it.” He grins, utterly confident. “My heart is for you and you alone.”
“That’s not how it works, Aehako.”
“That is how it will work for me,” he says, ever stubborn. “And if your khui should resonate for another, I will send you to his arms with gladness for your happiness.”
Source: Barbarian Lover
“If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.”
“If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.”
“If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.”
“If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.”
“If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.”
“If my legs are showing, the makeup artist adds a tiny amount of foundation to body lotion and rubs it in.”
“If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.”
“If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?”
“If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.”
“If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.”
“If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.”
“If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.”
“If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.”
Source: Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar
“If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.”
“If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.”
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
Source: The lightning thief
“If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.”
“If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.”
“If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.”
“If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!”
“If my life isn't impossible, I don't wanna live.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“If my life right now is a figment of my imagination and none of this is really happening, at least I can say that I am somewhere safe in reality. But if I made all of this up, I would not be walking around free.”
“If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel
“If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.”
“If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.”