I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If they cannot be woken to a natural affection for their country, such as we feel, it is our fault and not theirs.”
Source: Victory of Eagles
“If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven’t had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. ‘Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?’ (Acheron)”
“If they cheat, can I shoot them?”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.”
“If they come back today and say, 'let's try again, but differently' - what would you answer?”
Source: Hold Me Differently: For Him and For Her — When Love Needs a New Language
“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.”
“If they come prying they can leave curious.”
Source: Tehanu
“If they come to this forest, to us here, seeking shelter from the havoc that has been brought upon their lands, at the hands of evil, I say come. I say join us in this fight! The royal throne of Northbrook no longer resides in Gamlock. It is here. Now. In this place. You are its soldiers, I am its king, and we will work together to unite all who are willing to fight alongside us! (Wharick)”
Source: Sustenance
“If they come—whoever they are—will sorely wish they hadn’t!”
Source: Macom Farm
“If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.”
“If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as well...[as] an omnibus clause in the state's legal code authorized divorce based upon..."gross misbehavior and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and inconsistent with the marriage contract"...the relative vagueness of the terms "gross misbehavior and wickedness" left room for interpretation by Rhode Island judges. Therefore, it was crucial NIna's attorneys prove she had legitimate standing to file for divorce in Rhode Island.”
Source: Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
“If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.”
“If they could say that to their patients, it could be a way to treatment, as in both working on it and preserving it. That could give a patient the faith to fully experience that beauty, without reliving the torment.”
“If they could, the USA would declare COVID-19 as a terrorist organization.”
“If they could, women would put make-up on the rainbow.”
Source: The New Land
“If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple.”
“If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.”
“If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”
“If they’d caused you pain, I’d never have been able to live with myself,” he said as he backed up a step.
“You might want to find another place to sit. Those idiots could cook up a plan for revenge.”
“I can’t leave.” Green Eyes took a huge breath. “This is the only place where I get to see you.” He looked like a man who’d just bet his entire fortune and laid his cards on the table.”
“If they did not weep, I would not either.”
Source: Circe
“If they didn’t stop this, she was going to come
embarrassingly quickly.
Possibly even right now.
Not to mention the fact she never let men she barely knew unzip her and suck on her nipples.”
Source: Playing It Cool
“If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.”
Source: Fields of Fire
“If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.”
“If they die here together, starved like prisoners, she hopes he’ll come with her to find her legs. She hopes he can swim. But even if he can’t, she’s sure he’ll learn once the water touches his toes. The knowledge will come to his body, like in a dream. She imagines the two of them swimming side by side in an endless sea, an epic of water below them, billion of colourful fish joining their adventure. There would be an island eventually. They would wade ashore and pick fruit from the trees.”
Source: A Plea for Constant Motion
“If they do it they will judge you by that.”
“If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.”
Source: The Lincoln treasury
“If they do not give you a seat at the table, don't bring a folding chair, build a damn table and have your folks pull up their chairs.”
“If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!”
Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)
“If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“If they do there are ways to weather the storm without bidding against yourself or responding with anger. Once you learn these tactics, you’ll be prepared to withstand the hit and counter with panache. First, deflect the punch in a way that opens up your counterpart. Successful negotiators often say “No” in one of the many ways we’ve talked about (“How am I supposed to accept that?”) or deflect the anchor with questions like “What are we trying to accomplish here?” Responses like these are great ways to refocus your counterpart when you feel you’re being pulled into the compromise trap.”
Source: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
“If they don’t apologise to you, don’t’ let it hold you from living your best life.”
“If they don't appreciate you at your best, do you think they will do it at your worst? Learn or perish.”
“If they don't care to heal you, they will continue hurting you.”
“If they don't chase you when you walk away... Keep walking!”
“If they don't consider your needs, they aren’t your real friends.”
“if they don't fall for you just give them a little push”
“If they don't hear your silence,
Words won't do you any good.
Listen to the silence beyond the words,
And you shall hear the divine tune.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“If they don’t respect you, respect yourself and leave that situation.”
“If they don't see it's wrong, if they don't say it's wrong, it can happen again. It could happen to you; it could happen to me.”
Source: A Kind of Spark
“If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“If they don't understand the difference between your quietness and sadness then they are just pretending to understand you.”
“If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.”
“If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.”
“If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.”
“If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.”
Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.”
“If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.”
“If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.”
“If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.”
“If they don't know the Lord, I encourage them to search for and open their hearts and their eyes. If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to heaven and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible. I want to make sure that those people out there feel the same. At the end of the day as long as I glorify him and those 45,000 people know who I represent out there every time I step out on the field, that's what it's about. It's about representing God.”