I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never did.”
Source: Daughter of Moloka'i
“If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'”
“If you were living in somebody’s heart but now feeling like a tenant, accept the reality immediately. The landlord or landlady is now looking for excuses to evict you.”
“If you were looking aside and mentally adding up the hours until the execution of a young killer, all that registered was something dark flashing by. But if you happened to be gazing directly at the window in question and you happened as well to be feeling unprecedentedly calm, four-tenths of a second was more than enough time to identify the falling object as your husband of forty-seven years.”
Source: The corrections
“If you were looking for whom to make a hero, look in the direction where there are farmers, for they are the ones who have conspired with nature to save humanity.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.”
“If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.”
“If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that wasn't the territory of poetry. I think that's pretty smart. I think that it doesn't need to be altogether true, but that was my starting place.”
“If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.”
“If you
were married to yourself
could you stay with yourself?
My house
would be frightening and wild.”
Source: bone
“If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.”
Source: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3
“If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.”
Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir
“If you were meant to cure cancer or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children, you hurt me, you hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite God Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter further along its path back to God.”
“If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.”
Source: Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit
“If you were mine, I'd make you pierce it, just because,”
Source: Catch a Ghost
“If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.”
Source: The Perfect Rake
“If you were mine, you would be my first and best concern. I would in all things endeavor to make you happy.”
Source: A Lady of Conscience
“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“If you were mine, I would never let you go.”
Source: Breathe
“If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.”
“If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.”
“If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.”
Source: Hourglass
“If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.”
“If you were nervous during your time on the show, you didn't show it. You still prioritize flashy decoration over the essential foundations now, but you were never openly rocked by criticism. You took it on the chin and until that last fucking disaster"---a tinge of heat lit up his tone; clearly the unicorn hoof did still rankle---"you listened to all of us and your bakes improved accordingly."
Good grief.
Apparently, bread-baking Sid was right on the money about the alien abductions. She didn't know what they'd suddenly done with the original Dominic, but cheers for the substitute.
Sylvie could feel a reluctantly pleased flush creeping into her cheeks.
"To the extent of your ability," Pod Dominic finished.”
Source: Battle Royal
“If you were never to say, “I love you,”
then my darling, I would paint the Sun
with the Moon and the Moon with the Sun.
Oh! Then the Moon shall freeze the Sun
and the Sun shall smolder the Moon.
Then no certainties such as the day
and the night would exist.
Beloved, yes, time would die,
if you say, “I don’t love you.”
“If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.”
Source: Practical Truths
“If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].”
“If you were not born with a silver spoon, take any spoon, and coat it with silver.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp for anything that you could possibly touch, anything that you could possibly feel brushing against your fingertips! Funny how in the darkness, we come to find the things that we never saw before all the lights departed! It's like someone needed to turn the lights out, to make us find all the things that we never looked for when the lights were on! And it's in that blackness that we wake up to the true light! My friends, curse not the darkness! It has given you many things!”
“If you were not crazy before the COVID-19 pandemic, you may well be afterwards.”
“If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.”
Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth
“If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.”
“If you were not so gentle,
If you were hard to please,
If you were never patient
And always ill at ease,
If you were far from humble,
If you could not forgive,
If all you did was grumble
And curse the life you live,
If you were irreligious,
If you were not composed,
If you were quite ignoble,
If you had not proposed,
If you were daft as killdeer,
If you were less than kind,
If you were proud and pushy,
I’d pay you little mind.
And never would I ever
Call you Valentine.
But you are kind and gentle,
So patiently at ease.
You’re gracious, sweet, and humble.
Not ever hard to please.
You evince faith and service;
They dictate how you live.
Good will along with mercy
Allow you to forgive.
Despite the trials and heartaches,
You count your blessings all.
Despite the miles between us,
Persistently you call.
The gestures of affection.
The compliments so kind.
The selfless acts of service
Endear you in my mind.
And that, my dear, is why I
Call you Valentine.”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?”
“If you were often rejected or ignored by your parents while growing up, you can end up seeking the love and attention you were denied from your romantic partner instead. If your partner is even slightly indifferent towards you, then the wound from your childhood can be ripped open, causeing a big fight with your partner. But the real cause isn’t your partner; it’s the wound you are carrying around within you. Rather than projecting this wound onto your partner and causing a fight, set aside your pride and speak from the heart: “I am terrified that you will reject me and leave me, like my mum/dad did.” If we combine painful memories, the need for attention, and pride, the relationship can easily be ruined.”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“If you were okay with it, I would carry you up to my room right now and truly show you how much I want you [...]I would lay you down and devour you, every inch, until you were done. But I don’t want to be boozed up and out of it. I want to remember it, Olivia.”
Source: Shoot Your Shot
“if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.”
“If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.”
“If you were only crumbs on a plate, I would pick every last one up with my finger”
Source: The Chocolate Touch
“If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.”
“If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.”
“If you were picky about who you worked with in the Wild North, you'd be quickly left with no one to choose. You could try to pick the best of them, but you'd have to dig them up first.”
Source: Dustrunner
“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?”
“If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.”
“If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.”
Source: Selections from Swinburne
“If you were raised as child by a narcissistic mom, you may have spent a lifetime being mistreated and shamed for things that you never did. Toxic shame is a result of being told you are not enough. You may feel worthless and unlovable.”
Source: Soul Rescue: How to Break Free From Narcissistic Abuse & Heal Trauma
“If you were raised in an environment where emotion was minimized, seen as weakness, invalidated, shut down, perceived as wasteful (e.g., crying won’t help), or even punished, then giving yourself permission to feel, recognize, and explore may be a bigger challenge. You might be the first person in your life to grant yourself the permission you need to experience emotion. If you’re worried that giving permission to experience and engage with emotion will turn you into something you’re not or someone you don’t want to become—it won’t. It will, however, give you the opportunity to be your most authentic self. We are wired to be emotional beings. When that part of us is shut down, we’re not whole.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“if you were really busy, you could almost forget about it, but when you stopped moving, it was murder”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)