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 something to tie you back to your old life, would you keep it or destroy it?”
Source: Captive
“If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
“If you had the ability to make things right, you would have kept them from going wrong in the first place. That's the problem. You don't have the ability, as we all are. It is only the grace of God that can make amends for your mistakes.”
Source: Dragon Slayer: Beginnings
“If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?”
“If you had the choice, would you pick Jeb over me?”
“In a heartbeat,” I said.
“Ouch,” he said.”
Source: Let It Snow
“If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.”
“If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.”
Source: Search for the Shadow Key
“If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.”
“If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.”
“If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.”
“If you had the perception that you are very stressed out then your grey matter was fully 20 per cent smaller in volume than people who did not have that same feeling. This is the grey matter in your prefrontal cortex: It controls thinking, learning, planning, decision-making. That matters because when we are feeling more stressed, that is when we are at our most vulnerable in our inability to think our way out of it.”
“If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit, you would catch them!”
Source: Treasure Island
“If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“If you had the power to erase every memory you have of me so you didn’t know what you were missing, would you do it?” she asked.
“No, I wouldn’t do it,” I said without even thinking about it.
“Why?”
“Because life wouldn’t be worth living if I didn’t remember you.”
She looked like she didn’t believe me. “But it’s so hard though,” she said.
“Would you erase the memories of your grandma so you wouldn’t feel the way you feel right now?”
“No.”
“Some things are worth remembering, Samantha. No matter how much they hurt.”
Source: Say You'll Remember Me
“If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.”
Source: Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc
“If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.”
“If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than "unison", it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.”
“If you had to choose an oil...it would have to be lavender essential oil, because it is antibacterial and antiviral. So, it's great to have when people around you are sick; it can also be used to relax.”
“If you had to choose between art and the slogan, or between history and the slogan, you might as well choose the slogan and have done with pretending even to care about art and history. The reduction of all things to politics must reduce them, in their own right, to irrelevance.”
Source: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
“If you had to choose,” he asked, “would you want your heart or your hand?” (...) “They are both mine.” I drew my brows together. “I don’t have to choose.”
Source: Escaping from Houdini
“If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.”
Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.”
“If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.”
“If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?”
“If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.”
“If you had to fall into a woman's arms, my son, why couldn't they have been Margaery Tyrell's?”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.”
“If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.”
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'”
Source: Dave Barry Turns 50
“If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players”
“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”
Source: The Storyteller
“If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.”
“If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.”
“If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?”
“If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be?
It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.”
Source: Stella Maris
“If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person with respect? Well guess what? That someone is you! Who deserves the best more than you do? Think about it and have an outstanding day...!”
“If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.”
“If you had to watch your life over and over again forever, it would be hell if your life were shit. I absolutely get it. If we don’t live lives we can be proud of, we’re fucked”
Source: The Last Bling King
“If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.”
“If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.”
Source: Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait
“If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.”
“If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.”
“If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.”
“If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.”
“If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.”
“If you had told me, if you had asked me
if I wanted to be with you
Here’s what I would have replied:
Marry me already. This life of mine
has waited long enough for you to move into it”
Source: Love Opens Your Eyes
“If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.”
“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.”
“If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.”