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 once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.”
“If you could only hear what I dream.”
“If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.”
“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”
“If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.”
“If you could only see the vision I have. I wish I had your bodies to do this work. I would run from house to house telling everyone of the gospel, and after I lost strength to run I would begin to walk, and after I collapsed from walking, I would begin to crawl, and after my knees were so bloody that I could not use them I would use my arms to drag myself, and once my muscle in my body was gone I would begin to yell…oh, only if you could see the vision as I have.”
“If you could only see
Tonight’s moonrise over Rio
Then you would understand
Just why my heart aches so
Christ the Redeemer
Can’t even compare
To the spectacular wonder
Climbing high over there
So far above me
So out of reach
Lighting the city
Lighting the beach
With a heavenly glow
With God only knows
Endless beauty to behold
Moonrise over Rio”
Source: In Limbo
“If you could only see what you’re not seeing! If you could only take in all the complex layers of horrors that lie just beyond your range of sight. If you could only see the world as it really is. It is awful, and on fire…and beautiful.”
Source: The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“If you could perceive yourself through my eyes and feel what beats within my heart, you would understand that I would willingly face death for the mere dream of you.”
Source: Light In The Darkness #1
“If you could pick just one thing to lower the price of, to reduce poverty, by far you would pick energy.”
“If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.”
“If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least.”
“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.”
“If you could realize that everything is made out of time, then you can convert your free time into anything you want.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.”
“If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." "Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree." "No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.”
“If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.”
Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
Source: Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist
“If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.”
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?”
Source: A tale of two cities, with intr., notes, and analytical list of characters
“If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.”
“If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“If you could see my heart, you'd see the space for you in it.”
Source: French Holiday
“If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.”
“If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces.”
“If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.”
“If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.”
Source: Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day
“If you could see your perfect image in the mirror it would remove all your fear.”
“If you could see your whole life laid out before you, there’d be no reason to live it, right?”
Source: Magnolia Mystic
“If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.”
“If you could sell his emotional state to a fey lord, they might give you their daughter’s hand in marriage. The daughter would then eat you, but I digress”
Source: Heroes Wanted: A Fantasy Anthology
“If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.”
“If you could speak to yourself 5 years from now, what would your future self ask you to prioritize?”
“If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.”
“If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.”
“If you could stop once and open me up you’d see me, the real me- not the me I pretend to be.”
“If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.”
“If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.”
Source: Great Jones Street
“If you could strip away all your distraction and obligations, who would you be left with?”
Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way
“If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?”
“If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?”
“If you could travel back in time, you would miss out on all of the mistakes you made. You would undoubtedly be someone very different. Long live my past and my mistakes.”
“If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.”
“If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life.”
Source: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
“If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great.”
“If you could use your brain like you use your ass.”
“If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.”