I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I’d rather be in trouble a safe distance away, than to die here for something stupid.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I'd rather be inspired by my competition than be jealous.”
“I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!”
“I'd rather be miserable and free than happy and caged.”
“I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.”
Source: Sing Me to Sleep
“I'd rather be moved by something, than impressed by something.”
“I'd rather be not the light in your life
The bright day might make me obscure
I'd rather be the cold darkness
For it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure”
Source: The Farewell and other poems
“I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.”
Source: The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
“I'd rather be standing here with you than out there without you.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I’d rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none.”
“I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.”
Source: Short journey
“I'd rather be the one making mistakes than the one laughing at someone making mistakes, for that laughing person is a wimp." ~ Denise Mansfield Bradberry.”
“I'd rather be underappreciate, and under worked, than over appreciate and over worked.”
“I'd rather be weird than ordinary. Ordinary is so boring.”
“I'd rather cry with you than laugh with the world—”
Source: The Ineffable Taste Of You
“I'd rather cut a man's throat than hold his hand.”
Source: Blade Breaker
“I'd rather die a free man, or at least perish while trying to become one, than live as a slave.”
Source: The Quest for Freedom
“I'd rather die a martyr than live as a maggot.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.”
“I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie.”
“I'd rather die than compromise my character.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“I'd rather die than live without passion.”
“I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.”
“I’d rather discover my sensuality before I find love because it is through understanding my own sensuality that I can learn how to love someone else with the same authenticity and immeasurable depth as I love myself.”
“I’d rather discover my sensuality before I find love because it is through understanding my own sensuality that I can learn how to love someone else with the same authenticity, passion and depth as I love myself.”
“I'd rather do nothing at all than being busy with something I don't enjoy.”
“I'd rather do something than read about it."
"That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*.”
Source: Before the Dawn
“I’d rather do the wrong thing with the right person—than the right thing with the wrong one.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“I'd rather drink my dinner out of a martini glass and follow it up with a cosmopolitan chaser.”
Source: Dead End Dating
“I'd rather eat shit than have to work for that cunt one more day," I told her.
"Didn't you say she was married to a prince or something?"
"Exactly," I answered. "But that was just a rumor anyway."
"So you're not sick?"
"I'm resting." I lay down on the sofa to demonstrate.
"That makes sense," Reva said, nodding compliantly, although I could tell she was suspicious. "Take some time off and think about your next move. Oprah says we women rush into decisions because we don't have faith that something better will ever come along. And that's how we get stuck in dissatisfying careers and marriages. Amen!"
"I'm not making a career move," I started to explain, but I went no further. "I'm taking some time off. I'm going to sleep for a year.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I’d rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for”
Source: First Comes Love
“I'd rather feel pain while living, than hiding”
Source: Pageboy
“I'd rather get eaten by an epileptic shark.”
Source: Selene
“I’d rather go and make my own way than have it decided for me.”
Source: Pantomime
“I’d rather go broke giving enemas to house lizards than make money from customers like him. Old George made a fist and thrust it toward the water buffalo mounted on the wall above his head.”
Source: Paying Back Jack: A Vincent Calvino Novel
“I'd rather hang out with nerds that were kind than with jocks that hated me.”
Source: Mango Delight
“I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.”
Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“I'd rather have a heart of gold
Than all the treasure of the world.”
Source: Memoirs of An Amazon
“I'd rather have a life of chaos beside you than a life of quietude and stability without you...”
Source: Dubhán Reborn
“I'd rather have a rock in my pocket than a label on my shoe.”
“I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.”
“I'd rather have an ugly face than an ugly heart.”
Source: Starfish
“I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity”
Source: The Outsiders
“I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.”
“I'd rather have less time than I think, than less think than I have time.”
“I'd rather have my job than yours."
"Why?"
"Because your job deals very largely with what we call right and
wrong — and I'm not at all sure that there's any such thing.
Suppose it's all a question of glandular secretion. Too much of
one gland, too little of another — and you get your murderer,
your thief, your habitual criminal. Clement, I believe the time will
come when we'll be horrified to think of the long centuries in
which we've indulged in what you may call moral reprobation, to
think how we've punished people for disease — which they can't
help, poor devils. You don't hang a man for having tuberculosis.”
Source: Murder at the Vicarage
“I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.”
“I'd rather have nothing on my own than take th scraps someone may throw me.”
“I'd rather have patience than to have to wait.”
Source: "Darling, it's not only about sex"
“I'd rather have the next four months with you knowing I'll have to leave--knowing that at the end, my heart will probably break as soon as I get on that plane. I'd rather have what time I can with you than nothing at all. You are worth the chance off complete and total heartbreak.”