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 really humble you would be great, because humility would never squander the magnificent gift of life.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.”
“If you were running a solar company you may be okay - you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?”
“If you were Russian, would you like Europe and the USA, knowing they are supplying massive amounts of weapons that are killing Russian soldiers?”
“If you were sane, we'd both be mad.”
“If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.”
Source: Under the Dome: Part 1: A Novel
“If you were sexually abused & could not go to your family for support, you deserve to realize that your family failed you fundamentally. Your parents did not provide a safe atmosphere of support & protection for their children, which is a parent’s first responsibility. It was not your fault.”
Source: Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse
“If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.”
“If you were six when you came here, and you are now...," he said, and paused as if waiting for her to fill in her age.
She signed as she thought the matter over.
"Are you still awake, Anora?"
"I was counting."
After much silence, Niall said, "Dinna you know how to count?"
"Of course I know how to count. How would I be able to keep track of my sheep if I did not know how to count?...”
Source: The Highlander
“If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends."
"We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man."
"Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart.”
Source: The Austere Academy
“If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.”
“If you were standing in the path of the beam, you would obviously die pretty quickly. You wouldn't really die of anything, in the traditional sense. You would just stop being biology and start being physics.”
“If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.”
“If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.”
“If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.”
“If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?”
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.”
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business - you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
“If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!”
“If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.”
“If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.”
“If you were the gateway for refuge in times of trouble and you were isolated the gateway shut to your face in the time of happiness, if you didn't learn a lesson from it, just blame yourself.”
“If you were the government you would get the people being angry and trying to find hope to believe something new again. So we didn't have time to do that. It was just two years, the most difficult situation in Greece.”
“If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.”
“If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.”
“If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.”
“If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.”
“If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.”
Source: The Emperor's Soul
“If you were there, no words are necessary. If you were NOT there no words can explain.”
Source: Last Gunship USS Mullinnix DD-944 1972: A 1972 Vietnam War Destroyer Gunline Memoir of a Fire Control Technician
“If you were three times poor, I would still have paid attention to you and fell head over heels in love with you.”
Source: Fateful Italian Passion
“If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.”
“If you were to ask Jarod Kintz what his personal favourite joke was, he'd say the one with the island. The big one next to New Zealand.
-Stefan D and Jarod Kintz”
“If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.”
Source: My Last Breath
“If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.”
“If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!”
“If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.”
“If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.”
“If you were to ask me, “What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?” I would say a huge amount. It’s showtime every day, it’s a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.”
“If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.”
“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.”
Source: The Giver Quartet Omnibus
“If you were to believe that you would've never have tried anything new; when you don't you will only master failure.”
Source: Silent Sinners
“If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.”
“If you were to choose an animal to double-cross, it would be wisest not to choose a crow. They're formidable in intelligence: they are clever and wise enough to hold grudges against us.”
Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
“If you were to close your eyes and walk into a place of worship, the sounds and smells would alert you to where you were: ringing bells, incense, the rumble of a massive organ. Most brands are lacking these sensory stimuli.”
“If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.”
“If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.”
“If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.”
“If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.”
“If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.”
“If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and Palestinians. I think the Jews win: we, Isralians, go from the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms to the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion to World War II and the Holocaust - it's a horrible history. And if you look at the Palestinian world, victimized by every entity in the Middle East, they were massacred in every country. I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is this fear of genocide.”