I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.”
“If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.”
“If you had any compassion, you'd realize that Lindsay's been working toward this her entire life, and that if she wanted to be your walking uterus and au pair, she'd have volunteered for that task years ago.”
Source: Ballerinas
“If you had any ingredients at your disposal, what would you make?"
"You said it was a small dinner?"
"Yes," he affirmed.
"In that case, I would begin with a gustatio of salad with peppers and cucumbers, melon with mint, whole-meal bread, soft cheese, and honey cake." I tried to draw on my memory of one of the last meals I'd made for Maximus.
Apicius licked his lips. "Yes, yes, go on."
"Then pomegranate ice to cleanse the palate, followed by a cena prima of saffron chickpeas, Parthian chicken, peppered morels in wine, mussels, and oysters. If I had more time, I would also serve a stuffed suckling pig. And to close, a pear patina, along with deep-fried honey fritters, snails, olives, and, if you have it on hand, some wine from Chios or Puglia."
"Perfect. Simple and the flavors would blend nicely at the beginning of the meal.”
Source: Feast of Sorrow
“If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.”
“If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught.”
“If you had asked me to stop breathing, I would have complied without complaining. But not loving you is not an option.”
“If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.”
“If you had been a public figure from the time you were a toddler, if you'd had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, than maybe to you might value privacy above all else. I have given everything up there from the time that I was three-years old. That's reality show enough, don't you think?”
“If you had been born as your parents, you would have made the same choices that they did and had been as stuck as they were. Forgive them for being born into a time of relative darkness without the resources and consciousness that you have today.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“If you had been born in a civilization in which the rising sun was called 'my sun,' you would consider it your sun.”
Source: The Perfume of Silence
“If you had been fooling yourself and believing that passion was all about careers and money, you definitely need to change your thinking. Rather than about fulfilling your worldly and material wishes, it’s more about finding your authentic self.”
“If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness”
Source: Forever Amber
“If you had caught me in a quiet moment, when [...] stimuli weren’t bombarding me, [and asked me how I was feeling] I would have responded [...]: Something’s not right. I feel unsettled. Everything feels like the same old, same old. Something is missing. [...]
I saw that all of my perceived happiness was really just a reaction to stimuli in the external world that made me feel certain ways. I then understood that I was totally addicted to my environment, and I was dependent on external cues to reinforce my emotional addiction.
What a moment for me. I had heard a million times that happiness comes from within, but it never hit me like this before [...]
Staying busy keeps unwanted emotions at bay. [...] But when we never overcome our limitations and continue carrying the baggage from our past, it will always catch up with us. [...]
[People may try to make all sorts of external environmental changes in] futile efforts to do or try something new so that they can feel better or different. But emotionally, when the novelty wears off, they are still stuck with the same identity. [...]
When we keep that diversion up, guess what eventually happens? We grow more dependent on something outside of us to change us internally. [...]
Nothing outside of us can ever make us happy. [...]
Nothing in our environment is going to “fix” the way we feel. [...]
Let go of the façade, the games, and the illusions. [...]
Happiness comes from within. [...] Once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion.”
Source: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
“If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?”
Source: Brain Droppings
“If you had closed your eyes and looked inward, you would have seen me; you would have seen us. We have always been inseparable, like night and day, light and dark, flowers and fruits, and spirituality and sexuality.”
Source: Saint Richard Parker
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?”
“If you had control over your maladaptive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, you wouldn’t still have them.”
Source: Self Compassion / The Compassionate Mind
“If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.”
Source: The UNIX Programming Environment
“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”
Source: Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)
“If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!”
“If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian
“If you had five photos of anuses, I could not point mine out.”
“If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.”
“If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.”
“If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”
Source: The Underland Chronicles #5: Gregor and the Code of Claw
“If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels
“If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.”
“If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“If you had more money than you knew what to do with, what would you desire?”
Source: Immoral Origins
“If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?”
“If you had never lived, and my mind was full of you--a fantasy figure with whom I am having an intense personal relationship--they'd give me treatment. They'd lock me up for being delusional. As it is, yes, it's an embarrassment.
The black-armband days were easier. It was a sign to say--I am a bit odd. Give me space. Give me time. Grief takes time.
I am grieving. I discover that grieving means living with someone who is no longer there.”
Source: Night Side of the River
“If you had no enemies, you had no fun.”
“If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
“If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.”
“If you had one day left to live, what would you do?”
Source: Fracture
“If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life's purpose ever after.”
“If you had one last breath - what would you say?
If you had one hour to use your limbs before you would lose the use of them forever - would you sit there on the coach?
If you knew that you wouldn't see tomorrow who would you make amends with?
If you knew you had only an hour left on this earth - what would be so pressing that you just had to do it, say it, or see it?
Well there is something that I can guarantee - that one day you will have one day, one hour and one breath left.
Just make sure that before that day that you have said, done and experienced everything that you dream of doing now.
Do it now - that is what today is for.
So pick up the phone and call an old friend that you have fallen out of touch with.
Get out and run a mile and use your body and sweat.
Seek out someone in your life to say your sorry to. Seek someone In your life that you need to thank. Seek someone in your life that you need to express your feelings of love to.
Then when that day comes you will be ok with it all.”
“If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.”
“If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.”
“If you had planned to come to Crawford in the middle of the hot summer in August, no one would have come with you, if you had planned it. But spontaneously, we have now been here 11 days in the most intense heat that you can imagine of west Texas. Some of the most intense heat thunderstorms.”
“If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.”
“If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?”
Source: The Orchid Thief
“If you had said before the game we would get three points, I would have said you'd had too much gin.”
“If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.”
“If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.”
“If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.”