I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If they wanted Adarlan's Assassin, they'd get her.
And Wyrd help them when she arrived.”
Source: Crown of Midnight
“If they wanted Prince Charming, then he was just going to have to put on the greatest act of his entire life and become the ultimate Prince Uncharming.”
Source: Cupid's Serenade
“If they wanted to
They Would”
“If they wanted to understand our constitutional history, they should read ‘The Federalist,’ but if they really want to understand American politics, they should read the antifederalists.”
Source: The Congressional Experience: An Institution Transformed
“If they waste your time, cut them off. You're not a teacher, employed to educate people on the value of your time, or theirs.”
“If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.”
“If they were afraid of him, then he must be Satan or something even worse, like maybe Sarah Palin.”
Source: Vengeance Paid With Blood
“If they were determined to steal his train, he was equally determined to get it back”
Source: The Georgia Express: A Tale of the Civil War
“If they were gods, he was God.”
Source: Fireman
“If they were gods, then he was God.”
Source: Fireman
“If they were going to be like that, then I just wished they hadn't actually been German. It was too easy. Too obvious. It was like coming across an Irishman who actually was stupid, a mother-in-law who actually was fat, or an American businessman who actually did have a middle initial and smoked a cigar. You feel as if you are unwillingly performing in a music-hall sketch and wishing you could rewrite the script. If Helmut and Kurt had been Brazilian or Chinese or Latvian or anything else at all, they could then have behaved in exactly the same way and it would have been surprising and intriguing and, more to the point from my perspective, much easier to write about. Writers should not be in the business of propping up stereotypes. I wondered what to do about it, decided that they could simply be Latvians if I wanted, and then at last drifted off peacefully to worrying about my boots.”
Source: Last Chance To See
“If they were going to go to London or to the UK to find out how health care is, national health care doesn't work, all they have to do is go to the Soviet Union to find out how communism and socialism didn't work, but it hasn't dissuaded them from trying it here because they think the only thing that hasn't happened is the right people haven't tried it with the proper funding.”
“if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
“If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.”
Source: Doll Bones
“If they were scientists, they were told to be mothers. If they wanted to be mothers, they were told they’d better fit the mold entirely. If they wanted to invent something, they were told to be practical.”
“If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.”
Source: The Metamorphosis
“If they were to analyse my heterochromatin, every sequence would resemble you."
~Caspian Grey”
Source: [s]he's a ten, but...
“If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing.”
Source: Hungry Ghosts
“If they weren’t good for you in 2015, they won’t be great for you in 2016. Let them go.”
“If they weren't nice to you when you were growing up, you'll probably be attracted to partners who aren't nice to you now.”
“If they weren't there during the STRUGGLES, be mindful of how you let them into the END RESULTS!”
“If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.”
“If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?”
“If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.”
“If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.”
“If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.”
“If they won't stop when you ask them nicely, they don't stop when you demonstrate to them what they're doing is wrong, then they should be stopped using whatever means are necessary.”
“If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.”
“If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.”
Source: Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)
“If they would have put positive opportunities in front of me to make $1000 a week, I would have done it. But they didn't. They put $1000 in front of me and an illegal way to make it. And they expect me not to do it because they say it's wrong.”
“If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.”
“If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.”
“If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.”
“If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.”
Source: Gulliver's Travels
“If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.”
Source: The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series
“If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.”
“If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.”
“If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me.”
“If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.”
“If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?”
“If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie.”
“If they're going to get policewomen to jump me... I wish they'd get sexier ones.”
“If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.”
“If they're going to remember the problem, make sure they remember it fondly.”
“If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not”
“If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.”
“If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.”
“If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.”
“If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.”