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 told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.”
“If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.”
“If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.”
Source: Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author
“If you had two pair of jeans, four shirts, you were cool if you had a couple pair of kicks that were fresh. That was it. That's how it started.”
“If you had two weeks to live. How would you treat people and will you speak to people? Government is preparing graveyard. Hospitals are preparing beds. You should be preparing yourself, wash your hands, use your masks, social distance yourself and set your record straight with you maker. Because no one knows the day nor the hour. Matthew 24:36”
“If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.”
“If you had women running the weed market, I think there'd be lots of different products. I know periods. I know how horrible they are, and I know enough people who suffer from them that I really want to speak to them so they can carry something in their pocketbook for relief. Or come home, get in a tub, and soak with something that will actually work.”
“If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.”
“If you hadn't pulled me away, I would have decked them for insulting you." His hands tightened around the steering wheel.
"Insulting me?" She raised an eyebrow. "They were insulting you. Of course someone like you wouldn't be with a beautiful, sexy, curvy, brainiac goddess like myself. How many science fairs did you win in high school? How many math competitions? How many tech companies were beating down your door when you graduated from college with the gold medal? Did you know that the longest English word is 189, 819 letters long? Or that the French word for bastard is salaud?”
Source: The Dating Plan
“If you hadn't stolen my bride away in the night, Rhysand, I would not have been forced to take such drastic measures to get her back.'
I said quietly, 'The sun was shining when I left you.'
Those green eyes slid to me, glazed and foreign. He let out a low snort, then looked away again.
Dismissal.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“If you hadn't noticed, I like to talk about myself.”
“If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything.”
“If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.”
“If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.”
“If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.”
“If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.”
“If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.”
“If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.”
“If you hang around waiting for the right answer, you're going to be waiting all your life.”
“If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.”
“If you hang around with losers you become a loser”
“If you hang birdcages in your mind, you eventually get something to put in them.”
“If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.”
“If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.”
“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“If you hang out with corrupt utility companies, you must expect to get caught up in their illegal activities!”
“If you hang with 9 broke people, you'll be the 10th.”
“If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“If you happen to be out at night on the bike path without a light, ring your bell constantly. No bell? Then sing "Hotel Yorba" on a continuous loop, loud enough to warn the unseen.”
Source: Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
“If you happen to be the only one with negative interest rates, you also weaken your currency, which means you make your exports more competitive.”
“If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where money is adored, it’s almost impossible to grow up and to grow up honest inside. It is almost impossible. Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. But to grow up, to take responsibility for the time you take up, and the space you occupy, to honor every living person for his or her humanity, that is to grow up.”
“If you happen to believe what Ben & Jerry's is supporting and involved in, then you should support the company. If you don't believe in what we are supporting, don't support it.”
“If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.”
“If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.”
“If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.”
“If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!”
“If you happen to get a bad husband or a bad wife even once, it can ruin many lifetimes!”
Source: Death : Before, During & After...
“If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.”
“If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.”
“If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.”
“If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul.”
“If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul. When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers her people to be soldiers.”
“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.”
“If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.”
“If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.”
“If you harass me, I will research the frauds you are involved in.”
“If you harbor preferred principles and ways of behaving that have never brought you ANY happiness, or even much luck in your personal relationships over a number of years—this should not be taken as a sign that all women are bad or that none of them are serious, but
A SIGN THAT YOUR OWN ATTITUDE AND DATING STRATEGIES ARE FLAWED AND NOT REALLY SUCCESSFUL—and can only bring you further disappointments with women!
It seems like an elementary, easy thing to accept. Strangely, thousands of people seem, for some reason, to be unable, or stubbornly refuse, to see the truth and draw such a logical conclusion.”
Source: The Honest Book of International Dating: Smart Dating Strategies for Men
“If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!”
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”