I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If there was one language that truly resonated with her, it was music.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“If there was one last place in which it was possible to escape the riff-raff of humanity, it was Heaven.”
Source: Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]
“If there was one lesson to be drawn from Bush's appearance (on 'Meet the Press') it's that he doesn't have to be forthcoming or honest. And he's the first to tell you why. (Bush:) 'I'm a war president.' He added: 'I guess I should have told you that back in 2000.'”
“If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity”
Source: Come Unto These Yellow Sands
“If there was one message I could be known for in the years and centuries after I’m gone, one message for which I’m remembered, if I am remembered at all, it would be the urgent bulletin I’m delivering right here and now: where you are now and what you are now—at this precise moment—is absolutely, one hundred percent okay… and accepting yourself right now for who and what and where you are is not only your best bet, it’s your only bet.”
Source: Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays
“If there was one overriding element to Faraday's character, it was humility. His 'conviction of deficiency,' as he called it, stemmed in part from his deep religiosity and affected practically every facet of his life. Thus Faraday approached both his science and his everyday conduct unhampered by ego, envy, or negative emotion. In his work, he assumed the inevitability of error and failure; whenever possible, he harnessed these as guides toward further investigation. Faraday adhered to no particular school of scientific thought. Nor did he flinch when a favored hypothesis fell to the rigors of experiment.”
Source: The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
“If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.”
Source: Losing My Breath
“If there was one thing familiar to her, it was the way loneliness tended to creep in, kick off its shoes, and make itself right at home.”
Source: Bernice Runs Away
“If there was one thing Felan had learned, it was that adults always made excuses, and children were always to blame.”
Source: Opium
“If there was one thing he knew about himself, it was that he could take any good thing and make a mess out of it.”
“If there was one thing I'd learned, it was that you were responsible for your own ship. You had to look after the engine and make sure the plan was in order and ready to be flown. You were in charge of plotting your course. When you were in the pilot's seat, it was your hand on the throttle, no one else's. If your oil ran out or you lost an engine or the engine caught fire and you had to crash, you were the one saving yourself. No one else could do it for you.”
Source: Velva Jean Learns to Fly
“If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . .
No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning.
But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too.”
Source: Em and the Big Hoom
“If there was one thing I had learned about anger, it was that she was just a cover, and as she ranted, raved, and screamed, she stripper herself away, only to reveal fear. Anger was always fear dressed in a thinning, poor disguise. If you only took a minute to examine it, you could see that.”
Source: The Quiet Limit
“If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.”
Source: By Myself and Then Some
“If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.”
“If there was one thing I understood about Katie, it was that she came to this country after a childhood defined by the kind of poverty the poorest American could scarcely imagine.”
Source: Murder at Ochre Court
“If there was one thing I’d like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.”
“If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts
“If there was one thing she’d learned about this wicked cowboy wolf, it was that he might have been a damn good villain, but when it came to protecting her, nothing would stand in his way.”
Source: Wicked Cowboy Wolf
“If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.”
Source: Invite Me In
“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.”
Source: The Killer's Tears
“If there was one thing Ty and Zane knew how to do, it was abuse each other for fun.”
Source: Crash & Burn
“If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.”
“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”
“If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."”
“If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.”
“If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.”
“If there was only one solution to every problem, the world would be insanely dull, don't you think, sweetheart?”
Source: White Stag
“If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.”
Source: Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post
“If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don't know if I would be the algorithm. I've always been OK with that. I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.”
“If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.”
“If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome.”
Source: One Long Thread
“If there was somebody I wanted to meet, I'd like to be able to get their autograph.”
“If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.”
“If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.”
Source: Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The
“If there was such a thing as re-incarnation, Floyd would come back as himself”
“If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?”
Source: Raven's Strike
“If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.”
“If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799
“If there was time on the clock there was a chance.”
“If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.”
“If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.”
“If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.”
“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.”
“If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.”