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 going to be a speaker, remember this: No one cares about you.”
“If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.”
“If you’re going to be busy, be productive.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“If you're going to be fighting anyway, why not fight to win and not just to survive.”
Source: Wake Up The Winner In You: Your Time Is Now
“If you're going to be in a traffic jam, at least enjoy the flavor. Make some toast.”
“If you're going to be my Valentine then I expect chocolates. Lots of them."
He'd already planned to get her some considering how much the female ate chocolate. She was tall and slender and her high shifter metabolism meant she was often eating something sweet. He wondered if she'd taste sweet when he kissed her.”
Source: Taste of Darkness
“If you’re going to be sitting watching television, or writing a book, or lazily enjoying the Internet, you might as well be pedaling your feet while you are doing it.”
Source: sciVive
“If You're Going To Be Unconventional in an area of your life, try to be conventional in all other areas”
“If you’re going to clean me, you’ll do it with your tongue, Natasha.”
Source: Binding Ecstasy
“If you're going to err, err on the side of simplicity...assume that you have a very brief time to make an impression, and that you'll be allocated a tiny amount of memory space in overloaded and preoccupied brains of your audience.”
Source: Clarity Wins: Get Heard. Get Referred.
“If you're going to force me out,
someone else will find their way in.
That is key.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“If you're going to get what you want in life, you have to have a contingency plan in your back pocket--Barry in Blackhorse Road A Novel.”
Source: Blackhorse Road: A novel of deception and forgiveness and love gained and lost
“If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“If you're going to give up so quickly, I don't think you'll last long but you should try telling yourself you won't ever give up. Nobody can say how this will turn out but you should try the hardest you've ever tried in your life so you'll have no regrets”
Source: Train Man
“If you’re going to give your imagination legs and allow it to run, leave your leash at home and do the same with your fears.”
“If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.”
“If you're going to have a life worth living, you have to take risks.”
Source: Tether
“If you're going to have a pissing contest, can you at least do it on the roof?”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“If you're going to have to rehearse a lie you better be a good actor.”
“If you're going to hell, at least have the morals to leave no footprints behind! If you want to ruin yourself, don't pave the way for others to follow suit and be ruined as well!”
“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
Source: Keith Richards: In His Own Words
“If you're going to live with confidence, you've got to life with the Word.”
“If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now...Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more in real life.”
Source: Sam's letters to Jennifer
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We break easily. Our words save us. Our stanzas keep us alive. If we loved you at all, we loved you truly. And you will never leave us but live under our skin and beneath the tips of our fingers and in the ink spill on blank page.
Because poetry, like some love, is forever.”
“If you're going to love someone today, let it be YOU.”
“If you're going to marry a man, make sure you like the drunk version of him, too. You're marrying more than one person...That's what some couples don't realize. When you get married, you're marrying a thousand people.”
Source: The Big Door Prize
“If you’re going to ‘run your mouth,’ at least don’t run it in circles.”
“If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy, God will forgive you but the bureaucracy.”
“If you're going to start talking about Donald Trump like that, we're going to end this meeting right now," (Senator Lindsey) Graham said. Sandra Garza, the widow (of deceased Officer Brian Sicknick), gave Graham a tongue lashing. I cant' recall what she said, specifically, but he shut the fuck up and slumped into his chair.”
Source: Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.”
“If you’re going to write punk fiction, you have to be brave enough to look through the lens of a different era’s telescope.”
“If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.”
“If you’re gonna have your head split open, it might as well be while you’re riding a wave, dude.”
“If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to stay? Because even when you're gone, you're never really gone... I won't get over it if you keep coming back. Losing you once was hard enough. And now you're here again and everything's coming back. I'm going to get screwed. And I can't do it again.”
Source: Everneath
“If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.”
Source: The Far Side
“If you're good at this job, and I am, then every step in a murder case moves you in one direction: towards order. We get thrown shards of senseless wreckage, and we piece them together until we can lift the picture out of the darkness and hold it up to the white light of day, solid, complete, clear. Under all the paperwork and the politics, this is the job; this is its cool shining heart that I love with every fiber of mine. This case was different. It was running backwards, dragging us with it on some ferocious ebb tide. Every step washed us deeper in black chaos, wrapped us tighter in tendrils of crazy and pulled us downwards.”
Source: Broken Harbour
“If you’re grieving, you have become—at least partially—someone you don’t recognize.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“If you’re half as hot as I get just when you walk into a room, then I’m a happy man.”
Source: Wolf Gone Wild
“If you’re half as hot as I get just when you walk into a room, then I’m a happy man.”
Her fingers combed through my hair then slipped to the nape of my neck. “Then you should be a totally, blissed-out, high-as-a-kite happy man.”
Source: Wolf Gone Wild
“If you're happy and you know it, check again.”
“If you're happy now, just enjoy being happy now. Tell yourself you're a happy person and keep that with you. You don't have to worry about bad things that haven't even happened yet. It feels like a waste of that happiness.”
“If you`re happy with the man you love,then i will never destroy that happiness.We are not lovers but you`re my friend, a precious companion and i always want to see you smiling and happy.Even if i don`t receive anything...even if i look like an idiot..."
-Shinbashi Kazuma”
Source: Uwasa no Midori-kun!!, Vol. 10
“if you're having a bad day
dress as if it might become your best”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“If you’re having a bad day just realize that some days are bad and you can do nothing about them. Try to stay calm and remind yourself that it’s just a fleeting day and also a day to show yourself that you can face anything and come out of it, smiling.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“If you're having a bad day, just remember, like my videos, life will only get better!”
“If you're having a bad hair day or a bad boy day, he'll whip up one of his yummy mango smoothies for you, sit you down, and say, "Little one, remember what's really important in life: a family that loves you, good friends, and not putting too much garlic in the pesto."
— Chloe Carlson”
Source: Best Friends Forever
“If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, "I changed my mind.”
Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“If you’re having a conversation with someone who is stuck personally or professionally, then it’s likely they are trying to see how many problems they can shove “on their fork” at the same time. Do they realize they are piling up multiple problems like their own little pasta mountain? Probably not. Will putting several problems together as if they were one problem create a mess? Absolutely.”
Source: Problem Solved: Simple Habits For Complex Decisions
“If you're having plant-based turkey this Christmas or Thanksgiving, you can grow the leftovers for next year's dinner!”