I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.”
“If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.”
“If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.”
Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C
“If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.”
“If we are genuinely concerned about engaging young people, particularly those that are vulnerable or at risk, we must listen to them properly.”
“If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the other problems that confront us today, the intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction – one that will serve all people, and not just a select few.”
“If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!”
“If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.”
“If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.”
“If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.”
“If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.”
“If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.”
“If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.”
“If we are going to amend the constitution, shouldn't it be to keep the omos-hay from arrying-may?”
“If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.”
“If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.”
“If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.”
“If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind”
Source: Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul
“If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.”
“If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.”
“If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what’s good for us.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.”
“If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.”
“If we are going to create a financial system that works for all Americans, we have got to stop financial institutions from ripping off the American people by charging sky-high interest rates and outrageous fees.
In my view, it is unacceptable that Americans are paying a $4 or $5 fee each time they go to the ATM.
It is unacceptable that millions of Americans are paying credit card interest rates of 20 or 30 percent.
The Bible has a term for this practice. It’s called usury. And in The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for those who charged people usurious interest rates.
Today, we don’t need the hellfire and the pitch forks, we don’t need the rivers of boiling blood, but we do need a national usury law.”
Source: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in
“If we are going to die from Corona, It will be because of our ignorance and foolishness. We don’t take things serious. We don’t follow the rules on how to save ourselves from corona. We think Corona is a scam. We are doing the things that we were told not to do ,to avoid the spread of corona. We think we are right by doing wrong things.”
“If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.”
“If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.”
“If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“If we are going to get any real change, we need to elect honest, compassionate politicians with integrity, who truly care about all the people.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis
“If we are going to go into a global currency fight against countries like China, well, the US has about 75, 76 billion in foreign reserves. They're going to be up against China with 1.7 trillion in US dollars and foreign reserves, so it's not much of a fight there. It could be an interesting fight though.”
“If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit that a few wise people can determine interest rates. Interest rates should be driven by the market, and people's time preference, and we see these boom-bust cycles.”
“If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.”
“If we are going to have any improvement in U.S.-Russia relations - which I think should be an objective of the United States - we don't want to stay where we are. We'd like for this to be more constructive. Then we're going to have to see progress on Ukraine.”
“If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.”
Source: Trusting God
“If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.”
“If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.”
Source: Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom
“If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.”
“If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“If we are going to out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate other countries, it's going to be women who make a difference, it's women who are going to lead the way and you know, until women get that rightful place and decision making and leadership and growth, America won't realize all her potential.”
“If we are going to revisit the past, let us go there only to learn from our past mistakes, and not to make it our place of dwelling.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.”
“If we are going to save endangered primates, we must first recognize that they are individuals much like human beings, who prefer to be free to live their lives independent of exploitation.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.”
“If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?”
“If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!”
“If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And that is my commitment to you. We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day.”
“If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.”
Source: Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old Macdonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat
“If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.”