I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“If our senses can so easily deceive us, how can we be confident in our understanding of anything, even our own physical existence?”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.”
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”
Source: Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero
“If our "Sheikh Dynasty" of Pampur were selfish, then half of Kashmir would be ours, if you don't believe me, go and ask Amit Shah.”
“If our show [Carpool Karaoke] shines, then I shine. I don't ever want to come out and make anything about me. I want to make it about them, make them the best that they can be. And the whole thing is a collaboration, those carpools.”
“If our sides were unequal our angles might be unequal. Instead of its being sufficient to feel, or estimate by sight, a single angle in order to determine the form of an individual, it would be necessary to ascertain each angle by the experiment of Feeling. But life would be too short for such a tedious groping. The whole science and art of Sight Recognition would at once perish; Feeling, so far as it is an art, would not long survive; intercourse would become perilous or impossible; there would be an end to all confidence, all forethought; no one would be safe in making the most simple social arrangements; in a word, civilization would relapse into barbarism.”
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
“If our social justice is guided by retribution, we will simply perpetuate the use and abuse of power to inflict violence.”
“If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.”
“If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.”
“If our society remember the iconic people by they hard work and self effort impacting our community, so I can consider myself as one of them because you will remember how hard I've been working to make it till there.”
“If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth.”
“If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.”
“If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)
“If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.”
“If our souls never ached with disappointments and disillusionments, we'd never fully admit and submit to our need for God. If we weren't ever shattered we'd never know the glorious touch of the Potter making something glorious out of dust, out of us.”
Source: It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
“If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.”
“If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us through the harsh climb of redemption. If we do not, today, have a determined bond with the wealth of injustice, we had it yesterday, and it becomes indispensable that we take advantage of time for our own individual readjustment before the Divine Justice.”
“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening to deep-dive into the roots of our negative qualities and find a surprising guideline for the creation of new horizons. ("Not without my shadow")”
“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.”
Source: Pensées
“If our strength in learning the arts is not turned to weakness, that is, in coming down along side to console and comfort, attending the infirm, the poor, the needy and the elderly, then we have pathetically failed with our true art, the art of humanity–of life. If this is so, all of our studies have been, like a warped, pitiless, cruel pile of cold rusty scrap metal on a gray drizzly day, in vain. If this lesson is too tough for us, we must remember that it is Jesus’ preferred way. He comes along side the sick, the feeble, the downtrodden, even the most wretched, disgusting and perverse. As He hung upon that splintˊry red cross and imparts His Spirit to all who seek Him, no, not even the fiery excelsior angels of the Highest Courts of Heaven have an excuse not to unflinchingly obey the clarion call of Him who beckons us to reach out and help lift from the mud those who cannot get up.
(Martial Arts on Noah's Ark)”
“If our stressful thoughts aren't true, what does that leave? It leaves, "I am loveable" - the very thing I could never make myself believe, because "I'm unloveable" overrides it when the chips are down.”
“If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.”
Source: Eleanor Rigby: A Novel
“If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade, somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.”
Source: Self-Deception: With a New Chapter
“If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"”
“If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.”
“If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.”
“If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.”
“If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.”
“If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?”
“If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.”
“If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“If our thought, speech or action is not bringing us right there, toward connection, it is not yoga.”
Source: Embrace Yoga's Roots
“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details or useless conventions. Scanning the reach on the horizon and challenging our imagination can allow us to recognize the essentials of our human condition and achieve harmony in our lives.
("Dirty bike)”
“If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.”
Source: Mark Rothko
“If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.”
“If our transmission is too garbled due to an unwittingly arrogant tone, the idea we broadcast isn’t necessarily the idea that will be received in the minds and hearts of the hearers.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”
Source: The Complete English Poems
“If our values are fluid, our reaction becomes a function of another person’s action towards us.”
Source: Quantraz
“If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.”
Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
“If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.”
Source: The shield of faith
“If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.”
“If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.”
“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.”
Source: The Moral Landscape
“If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.”
Source: A glimpse of glory
“If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.”
“If our world went dark, we must remember that darkness can’t reach the light switch unless we give it a boost.”
“If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.”
“If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.”
“If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.”