I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.”
“If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.”
“If you could establish your empires and settler colonial nations through ethnic cleansing massacres and land theft, then it is discrimination to say that we cannot. If you cleared your land of its Indigenous inhabitants, ... then it is anti-Semitic to say that we cannot.”
“If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.”
“If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.”
Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865
“If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.”
Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.”
“If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.”
“If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.”
“If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.”
“If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”
“If you could go anywhere, where would you want to go?”
“Could we find a map of someplace perfect?”
“Like paradise?” I asked, teasing.
“Here? No.” He stared upward, the first stars shining in his eyes. “A better place. Someplace where nothing goes wrong. There must be a myth like that somewhere.”
I bit my lip; my shoulders fell. “Navigation involves the beliefs of the Navigator and the mapmaker. And I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who truly believes in a world without suffering.”
Source: The Girl from Everywhere
“If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.”
“If you could go back in time and redo one thing in your life, what would it be?”
Source: The Watchmaker's Doctor
“If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.”
“If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?”
Source: The Interrogative Mood
“If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid. Lavish. Inspirational. It shapes leaves. It rolls the waters of the earth. Man is the chief of this. All creations are his just inheritance. You don't know what you've got within you. A person either creates or he destroys. There is no neutrality.”
Source: Seize the Day
“If you could have magical binoculars that you could focus and look at the field of intention, you would see what the source of all things looks like. It's a source of love and kindness and beauty and creativity, and it's a source that excludes nothing and it's a source of unlimited abundance.”
“If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.”
Source: What is Mind?
“If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the kick of a dolphin, the reflexes of a cat. If you could have all these, you would have the body, you would have the tools. But you would not have greatness until you understand that the strongest muscle is the heart. To me, that's the soul of the Olympic Games.”
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.”
Source: The Sun Watches the Sun
“If you could have won, you should have.”
“If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you would know one from the other.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.”
“If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.”
“If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?”
“If you could imagine dissonance assuming human form - and what else is man? - this dissonance would need, to be able to live, a magnificent illusion which would spread a veil of beauty over its own nature.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, ed. R. Geuss & R. Speirs, Cambridge, 2007, 163. (p.154)”
“If you could imagine the color of anger, it had been splashed over every wall. Rage, something dense and seething, was hanging from every chandelier, resentment woven into thick carpets padding the room, hatred flickering underneath every lampshade. The floor was bathed in a creeping shadow, a particular darkness that had seeped up into the walls.......”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“If you could invent something, what would it be?”
Source: 888 Questions for Couples: Questions of the heart for the heart.
“If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.”
Source: Just Listen
“If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time”
Source: As I lay dying: the corrected text
“If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.”
Source: Iron Kissed
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“If you could kick the posterior of the person who has hurt you the most, ...you wouldn't be able to sit down for six weeks.”
“If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?”
“If you could learn entire languages in a week, draw perfect pictures without thinking about it, and make complex calculations in your head in seconds, would you be willing to trade that for the ability to comfortably walk into a coffee shop and shake a stranger’s hand? My thoughts went racing to modern comic mythology such as X-Men: The Last Stand, in which mutants are presented with a drug that could make them normal by robbing them of their powers. Would purine treatment in autistic savants be the same sort of thing? I had to know, so I asked Dr. Naviaux, “Will savants lose their mutant powers if we cure them? “Treating an autistic savant with a purine inhibitor should not change his or her extraordinary abilities at all,” he said. The hyperconnected islands of neurons that were formed when an autism patient was young would still be there. The powers that the islands grant would still be available, but they would no longer be the only neural connections available. “In younger patients in particular, new connections, longer ones, stand a good chance of forming once the danger response is shut down by a purine blocker,” says Dr. Naviaux. The result? A superhuman mind without the burden of autism. Wow.”
“If you could learn how to make a perfect lemon tart then you got a story. If you don't feel like that, make a perfect chocolate chip cookie, but have five go-to dishes like that and you can move them around, change them up just a little bit, and always have something in the can.”
“If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.”
“If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“If you could live anywhere in the world where would you live ” “Right here ” Enzo replies. “In your arms.”
Source: Pretty Face
“If you could live in the moment, you would see the flavor of eternity and when you metabolize the experience of eternity, your body doesn't age.”
“If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely. If you see the inside as it really Is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.”
“If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.”
Source: Adam Bede
“If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.”
“If you could make people who are full of hate seem likeable, maybe you could change the way people think about hate itself.”
“If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity.”
“If you could meet any character from literature, who would it be?
I would not want characters to come to my world. They’d lose their special qualities, the perfect amount of what I should know about them. On the other hand, I could go to theirs because they would not have any preconceptions of who I was. I’d like to hang out with the Cheshire cat, learn how to disappear, and speak in smart illogic. He would look exactly like his pen-and-ink illustration by Tenniel. I’d be rendered in pen and ink, too. That would be required for entering a pen-and-ink world with its particular dimensional strangeness.”
“If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.”
“If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.”
Source: All the King's Men