I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If this was a dream, he didn’t want to wake up.”
Source: Cowboy's Redemption
“If this was a dream, then the world I'm living in itself must all be a dream.”
Source: Killing Commendatore
“If this was a flirtation — and it felt like a flirtation — it was like no other flirtation in Katya’s experience: with a man old enough to be her grandfather?”
Source: A Fair Maiden
“If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen.”
“If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING! (according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping)”
“If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.”
“If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.”
“If this was death, he wasn’t enjoying it. Pain played a dark melody through his soul, and he could barely think. Black and red was all he saw and felt, flashes of white joining the sharper bites of the ever-present agony. Drumbeats pounded to the rhythm of colour, a battle song to instil deep fear and even deeper trauma. His mind reeled, seeming to sink for minutes at a time, before resurfacing in flames. He supposed it might have been interesting from an observer’s point of view. But when pain and darkness was your very being, all you really wanted was for it to end.”
Source: A Canticle of Two Souls
“If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.”
“If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.”
Source: Lock and Key
“If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest.”
Source: From Dead to Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“If this was what caring about someone was like, what the hell was he supposed to do? Because he couldn’t handle it, couldn’t live like this.”
Source: In deinen Armen
“If this was what it meant to die, Saffron had to wonder why Persephone in myth ever thought to return to the surface at all. He would take her place without question.”
Source: Lord of Silver Ashes
“If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.”
“If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.”
Source: Black Ice
“If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.”
“If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.”
Source: Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)
“If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.”
Source: Going Bovine
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would always have bright eyes and dazzling smiles, and bad people would have scraggly hair and warty noses. That way if you saw one of them coming, you could cross to the other side of the street and avoid them altogether.
But this is not a proper world. In our world, many bad people look quite nice, and many good people are not beautiful at all. Many good people aren't pretty or cute or even interesting-looking.”
Source: Margaret and the Moth Tree
“If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now.”
“If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now. I know how I feel about you. Maybe it's impulsive of me to think I could be so sure, but I'm certain I would be happy with you.”
“If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations," Solomon said, looking up at the stars.”
Source: Highly Illogical Behavior
“If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?”
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
“If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”
Source: The Songlines
“If this were the fifties, she’d be checking Sam’s collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides, Sam almost always wore T-shirts.)”
Source: Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.”
Source: Travels with Virginia Woolf
“If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.”
“If this whole writing thing doesn't work out, I'll be getting right back on the pole.”
“If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
“If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.”
“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”
“If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance”
“If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.”
“If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.”
Source: To the Work!: Exhortations to Christians
“If this world is hell, one can only have compassion for those who are obliged to live in it and breathe its poisonous air.”
Source: Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf
“If this world is wearing thin
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand
Stay with me, stay with me.”
“If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.”
Source: Selected poems
“If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.”
Source: Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God
“If this year has taught me anything, it's that grief can destroy a person.”
Source: Five Feet Apart
“If this year you were the most you you’ve ever been, if you followed your heart and consciously created a life in alignment with what matters most to you, you’ve already won the game of life.”
Source: 10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
“If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.”
Source: What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School
“If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.”
“If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'”
“If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.”
“If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?”
Source: The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith
“If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.”
Source: Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List
“If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.”