I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.”
“If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.”
“If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.”
“If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteem”
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
Source: The Sense of Wonder
“If a child kills an animal, one might wonder whether the child has an onset mental illness. Yet most adults pay for animals to be killed and argue that it’s normal.”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“If a child knows what he should know and does not know what he should not, his childhood will be very happy. But when I was a child, I did not know what I should know, and I knew what I should not, hence all kinds of bewilderments continue to follow me today.”
Source: An Empty Room
“If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world”
“If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.”
“If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.”
“If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.”
“If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?”
“If a child’s emotional and intellectual freedom is restricted, their development and well-being suffer, which leads to complex problems in later life. Deprivation of thought and emotion results in an irrationality of cognition, feeling, and communication.”
Source: Human Development and Trauma: How Childhood Shapes Us into Who We Are as Adults
“If a child says, "I don't care about anything", that is not a sign of a wise child but of a troubled and depressed one. Similarly, adults who withdraw from the world soon get bored. Even lovers, if they retreat to their private love nest for too long, lose interest in each other. We do not thrive in safety and rest. Human existence means "transcendence", or going beyond, not "immanence", or reposing passively inside oneself. It means constant action until the day one runs out of thing to do - a day that is unlikely to come as long as you have breath.”
Source: At the Existentialist Café
“If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.”
“If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.”
“If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.”
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.”
“If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?”
“If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!”
“If a Christian is not having tribulation in the world, there's something wrong!”
“If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer
“If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.”
“If a chunk of alum can purify a bucket of putrid water, your heart can purify the world with its gentalist power.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“If a church-going woman is what you value, pursue a church girl. If a stay-at-home wife aligns with your vision, then that’s who you should look for. If you prefer slim women, then seek out a slim woman. If you’re drawn to thicker women, choose a thicker woman. If fitness is important to you, find a fit woman. If you admire a career-oriented woman, go for that. It's perfectly okay to have your preferences. But what you shouldn’t do is marry someone who isn’t your type and make her feel less than others because you’re unsure about what you want.”
“If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.”
Source: Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church
“If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.”
“If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.”
“If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.”
“If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.”
“If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.”
“If a claim is worth making, make it in the most impressive way.”
“If a clean heart wears dirty clothes, it will still look clean! If a dirty heart wears clean clothes, it will still look dirty!”
“If a client says, “I’m not an alcoholic ,” I don’t care. If she tells me she drinks a bottle of wine a day (“for my nerves”), drives afterwards (“I’m very careful”), and claims she could “quit any time” (but never has), that’s plenty for me. I’m not going to worry about the label, because my concern is helping her as best as I can, and labels are often unnecessary for that. In mental health, with noted exceptions, therapy can be a great success even with an “incorrect” label , or none at all.”
“If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error.”
“If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.”
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
“If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.”
“If a coal miner has a nightmare in his dream, he will not be afraid because he is living the worst of that nightmare in the real world!”
“If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.”
“If a color could deliver hope, does it follow that it could also bring despair?”
Source: Bluets
“If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, dont laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if thats funny, then you laugh. If its not, you dont laugh - or at very worst, you can leave quietly.”
“If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.”
“If a commander who wins a great victory does not celebrate his victory, he is a great commander because it is silence, not victory celebrations, that suits a place where there are deaths!”
“If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?”
“If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.”
Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
“If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.”
“If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.”