I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.”
“If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.”
“If peace flows like a river, may it flow into the ocean of our souls.”
Source: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems and Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously
“If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.”
“If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?”
“If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.”
Source: Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing: Easy Read Comfort Edition
“If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.”
Source: A New Earth: Create a Better Life
“If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle, but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life.”
“If peace of mind were on sale, I’d trade the world for a fleeting moment of stillness.”
“If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him.”
“If peaceful protesting really worked, the need to peacefully protest would have subsided to almost zero a long time ago! Instead, the thing that has subsided to almost zero are the number of complaints filed against police officers that are actually upheld.”
“If Peggy's personal star was on the rise, Arnold's was in freefall as their respective ships headed into the high seas.”
Source: Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
“If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.”
“If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.”
Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
“If pennies become worthless, does that devalue our thoughts to less than nothing?”
Source: Challenger Deep
“If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.”
Source: Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue
“If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.”
“If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they’ll be able to run a township, and a county.”
“If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.”
“If people are attracted to me, I like to think it's because I'm an interesting person, fairly smart, well-rounded, with a good sense of humor. I would like to think that's what I am. I would like to think people see it.”
“If people are basically selfish -and they are- then asking them to work hard yet earn no more than their unproductive neighbor is asking more than they'll rarely give. But we already know that; communism has failed.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.”
“If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.”
“If people are being left behind, impoverished economically or even culturally, they will always be easily targeted by demagogues of any stripe, exploiting their hate and fear and making impossible promises. That impoverishment is more likely if we fight a doomed battle against automation and new technology, when what those people need most is the ambitious new tech that is the only proven way to create sustainable industries and jobs.”
“If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.”
“If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.”
“If people are connected with God, they would be safe”
“If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.”
“If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.”
“If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.”
“If people are deprived of what is immeasurably great, they will cease to live and will die in despair.”
Source: Demons
“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.”
“If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.”
“If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are marginalized - like intravenous drug users, prisoners, people are made to feel less-than - if they're given the support of the government, and they're given the funding, then it's going to help solve the spread of AIDS and HIV in America.”
“If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.”
“If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.”
“If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.”
“If people are given a TV-educated idea of what Islam is, I have the opportunity to push back on that and say ISIS does not speak for the Muslim world, and in fact, you have people right here in front of you who are much more representative than homicidal maniacs.”
“If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.”
“If people are going to be allowed to say "we love you" and "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. Love isn't just a word.”
“If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.”
“If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.”
“If people are going to do post-publication peer review, they need to abide by the same rules as they abide by for pre-publication peer review: not being ad hominem, being respectful, giving the author a chance to respond in a reasonable way.”
“If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.”
“If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons”
“If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they're going to get away with it, you just go out there and ruin their day, too. That's they way I feel.”
“If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being Alan Shearer.”
“If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”