I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you’re a monster, so am I. There is no world I wouldn’t choose you.”
Source: Of Shadows & Ash
“If you're a person of feeling, if you feel things keenly and deeply—and I don't think you can be a writer unless you feel things not just for the moment but they live in you—that costs you. I don't think you can be a writer of consequence and merit unless you have grave doubts about yourself, about what you've done and who you are and whom you've hurt. And that costs you. And so, it all costs you. What is left is what all of us are going to get, a chance to know what it's like to die.”
Source: Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews
“If you're a pro-lifer, please remember: if life begins at conception, it sure as hell doesn't end at birth.”
“If you're a Republican, just imagine what you would have done if Obama slept with a porn star months after Michelle gave birth to Malia, paid hush money to the porn star, and lied to America about doing so.”
“If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award.”
“If you’re a woman who feels called but is still waiting for permission—let the Word of Truth and the Spirit of Truth lead you. Read the Scriptures for yourself. Listen to God’s voice. And then obey God, not man. If God is calling you, that is your permission. Don’t let someone else’s discomfort dilute your fire or keep you from your assignment.”
Source: Healed to Heal
“If you're a woman with a gun, and you're getting into a conversation with a man you're attracted to, for example, at a party, it's always best to say, should he look quizzically at your weapon, 'My father taught me. I'm a rather good shot.' What you don't say is, 'My mother taught me' or -- even worse -- 'My ma taught me and I'm an expert crack shot.”
Source: Little Constructions
“If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.”
“If you're a yoga teacher, I'm certain that your students will show up not for what your poses, your body, your practice looks like, not because you are the most innovative or brilliant or beautiful (though, I assure you, you are innovative, brilliant, and beautiful), but because you’re the only one who can teach like you, whose journey has led you exactly to this moment. And, I assure you, whatever you’ve got and whatever got you here—
embrace it.
We need your message.”
Source: A Yoga Teacher's Guide to Creative Living
“If you're about to become a stepmother or are currently filling that role, you are gambling that the love you've found and the strength and wisdom that you've acquired will see you through.”
Source: The Courage to be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself
“If you’re about to break, go for broke.”
“If you're about to lie down and take a nap, lemme know. I'll call Shore to come carry you around again," Kieran snarls at me and I shoot him a look, rolling my eyes.
"Thank you for your concern, but I'm fine. Look at us getting a camp cleaned out without having our asses handed to us first! Not a broken bone in sight. I'm proud of you, Black!”
Source: Broken Bonds
“If you’re about to request a search party for your free time, try issuing a warrant for mindless activities that do not contribute to your goals as a student.”
Source: Study, Sleep, Repeat: 130 Tips to Schedule Your College Life
“If you're about to take a risk--one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear--you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter.”
“If you're addicted enough to your passion, you'll surely somehow find time and paths to follow it.”
“If you’re adding value and being a good person, and you’re tuned to receive…. Money should be flowing into your life easily and abundantly.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“If you’re adding value and helping other people in some way, then money should be flowing into your life with ease.”
“If you’re afraid of dying, “You died,” is really the ultimate horror story. It’s what every horror story you’ve ever read boils down to. Every monster, every killer, every disastrous happenstance in every story is actually death playing masquerade. In this case, the threat in all horror is the threat that you, precious you, will no longer be.”
Source: Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1
“If you’re afraid of intensity (i.e. depth of sensuality/passion) you’re missing out on new levels. Levels are opportunities to grow and to tap into deeper and more soul-nourishing experiences than most people will ever have in their lifetime.”
“If you’re afraid of intensity you’re missing out on new levels. Levels are opportunities to grow and to tap into deeper and more soul-nourishing experiences than most people will ever have in their lifetime.”
“If you're afraid of the sea, you're doomed to land! Fear means that I am limiting a part of life to myself; it means that I will completely deprive myself of some of the riches of life!”
“If you're afraid of the thorn, you truly don't deserve the rose.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“If you're afraid to fly because you might fall, you'll never be able to chase the dreams among the clouds, and will be stuck running after earth bound pursuits. - The Malwatch”
“If you're afraid to leave the house unless you're armed, you don't need a gun, you need a psychiatrist.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“If you're after the Addo, he's holed up down there with Sean. You know what's up with that?"
Garrett just shakes his head as if he's clueless that the Addo is probably down there spewing all the secrets of Addoship to Sean, over a plate of cookies.
Zane squints.”
Source: Keystone
“If you're ahead of the your sales quota, don't rest, if you're behind, don't sleep.”
“If you’re all dressed up with no place to go, take a moment and celebrate the fact that you’re already in the company of someone who’s worth dressing up for.”
“If you're all grown up, as you insist, then you're old enough to recognize heat between a man and a woman. And it's there between us. I'm not a saint, Saskia. I'm not one of your respectful human boys. If you ask me, I'm not going to be a gentleman."
"Sainted bloody earth." She'd finally found her tongue. Her cheeks still blushed pink, but her eyes were furious. "How is that no woman has killed you before now?”
Source: Iron Kin
“If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"
The dragon was silent for a long time after this question. And at last he said: "It just came over me. I don't know why. It just came over me, listening to the battling shouts and the war-cries of the earth - I got excited, I wanted to join in.”
Source: The Iron Man
“If you're already a front-end developer, well, pretend you're also wearing a pirate hat.”
Source: Responsive Web Design
“If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.”
“If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.”
Source: Learning to Love - Saul's Story
“If you’re always obsessed about something out there, you’ll never become anything in there where it actually counts.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“If you're always saying the same things, then you haven't learned anything new, and that's impoverishment! If you're always saying new things, then you've forgotten old things, and that's impoverishment too!”
“If you’re always taking, you will inevitably experience resistance and struggle. Without realizing it, you may be creating a firewall that is blocking you from receiving exactly the things you most desire.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“If you're always telling people why you can't do something, if you parse everything and nitpick, I've got news for you: You're not going anywhere. If you want to make it in this world, learn to say, "sure, no problem." Practice. It's good for you. When is the last time you went on a limb trusting your gut feeling?”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“If you’re ambitious, you can bring a cultural change through your product instead of adapting, in case it leads to a better society and healthier mother earth.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“If you're an amateur, professional, or aspiring journalist in any city in the U.S., a good story for you would be to dig into the budget and number of employees that your local police department devotes to all forms of public relations. There's a reason they try to hide it.”
Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what you've created. Maybe they can't afford it, but it calls them like the siren in a sea, and they've saved for months and scraped, thinking all the time about how one piece you made has moved them. You can change a person's moment with your work, don't forget that.
If you're an author, someone out there has read your work. They've laughed with your characters. They've cried with them. They've escaped into your fantasy or memories, and they've been changed by you. Nothing they do afterward will be the same. You will forever make them different and who they will become. Please don't forget that.
If you're a singer or musician, you inspire others. People sing when they feel great emotion. If you're one of those who bursts into song at a moment's notice, imagine what that can do to brighten someone else's day. People are listening. They see you, who you really are. They are feeling the magic of those moments with you. You never know who's life you can change. You never know who is listening. Never forget that.
It doesn't matter what kind of magic you create, don't ever stop. There is beauty, pain, and so many other things that depend on you to continue. Never stop. Let the world see your magic. Perform your craft with all of the fibers of your being. Shine with your light. Edge with your darkness. Do what you must, but never stop. Your creations are a gift to the world, so give with all your might.
You never know who might need it.”
“If you're an entrepreneur, I encourage you to have meaningful conversations with other entrepreneurs and with all kinds of people working in all kinds of industries. With time, this will give you greater clarity about how the world works and you'll start to have more of an eye for business opportunities.”
“If you're an open book I would've carefully read through the pages you've written with your life so far, so I would know where you are at right now.”
“If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a democratic, liberal world whose motto is: “Make choices and manage your choices according to what is good for you,” then there is a built-in tension between that which connects and that which divides. Between the material and the intellectual or ethical. Materialism is not a dirty word, but in this tension between the individual and the material on the one hand, and the communal and the ethical on the other, we are at the end of an age in which the material and the individual are triumphing.”
“If you're anorexic, you're doing it wrong."
I swat him with a dish towel. "No, no, I mean anorexics look in the mirror, and even if they're eighty pounds, they still see a fat girl. I'm a hundred pounds heavier than I was in high school, my veins are full of creme fraiche, and yet I look in the mirror, take in the hair and makeup, and think, Damn, baby, you fiiine.”
“If you're anything like me,
You bite your nails,
And laugh when you're nervous.
You promise people the world,
because that's what they want from you.
You like giving them what they want...
But darling, you need to stop,
If you're anything like me,
You knock on wood every time you make plans.
You cross your fingers, hold your breath,
Wish on lucky numbers and eyelashes
Your superstitions were the lone survivors of the shipwreck.
Rest In Peace, to your naive bravado...
If life gets too good now,
Darling, it scares you.
If you're anything like me,
You never wanted to lock your door,
Your secret garden gate or your diary drawer
Didn't want to face the you you don't know anymore
For fear she was much better before...
But Darling, now you have to.
If you're anything like me,
There's a justice system in your head
For names you'll never speak again,
And you make your ruthless rulings.
Each new enemy turns to steel
They become the bars that confine you,
In your own little golden prison cell...
But Darling, there is where you meet yourself.
If you're anything like me
You've grown to hate your pride
To love your thighs
And no amount of friends at 25
Will fill the empty seats
At the lunch tables of your past
The teams that picked you last...
But Darling, you keep trying.
If you're anything like me,
You couldn't recognize the face of your love
Until they stripped you of your shiny paint
Threw your victory flag away
And you saw the ones who wanted you anyway...
Darling, later on you will thank your stars
for that frightful day.
If you're anything like me,
I'm sorry.
But Darling, it's going to be okay.”
“If you're anything like me, you don't make up your mind about important issues by doing original research, pounding over primary sources and coming to your own conclusions; you listen to people who claim to know what they're talking about - "experts" - and try to determine which of them is more credible. You do your best to gauge who's authentically well-informed and unbiased, who has an agenda and what it is - who's a corporate flack, a partisan hack, or a wacko. I believe that global warming is real and anthropogenic not because I've personally studied Antarctic ice core samples or run my own computer climate models, but because all the people who support the theory are climatologists with no evident investment in the issue, and all the people who dismiss it as alarmist claptrap are shills of the petro-chemical industry or just seem to like debunking things, from the Holocaust to the moon landing. We put our trust - our votes, our money, sometimes our lives - in someone else's authority. In other words, most of us decide not what to believe but whom to believe. And I say believe because for most people, such decisions are matters of faith rather than reason.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“If you're armed, you are not alone.”
“If you’re around people who spend all they make, chances are excellent that you’ll spend all you make.”
Source: Leading an Inspired Life
“If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"
Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.”
Source: The Custom of the Country
“If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.”