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 looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.”
“If we are lucky, or careful, or daring, our lives are all about coming back to our senses.”
Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey
“If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.”
“If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.”
“If we are made in his image. How will that change in this next stage in our evolution? Where we have cloning of individuals and gene manipulation to enhance ourselves. Are we changing what that image is?”
“If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.”
“If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?”
“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”
Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
“If we are meticulously careful with the use of the days, the years will take care of themselves.”
“If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.”
“If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.”
“If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.”
Source: Collected Works
“If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.”
“If we are not a part of the solution, then we are the problem”
“If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.”
“If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.”
“If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.”
“If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.”
Source: Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.”
Source: The Ultimate Journey: A Novel
“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters turning into walking dead. ("Terra incognita" )”
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
“If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!”
“If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.”
“If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.”
“If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.”
Source: Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries
“If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?”
“If we are not evolved enough to care about everyone, then we should at least care deeply about certain bits of life. Nothing wonderful can ever grow in us if we do not give our heart to life or to specific bits of life that we deem appropriate and desirable.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“If we are not free, no one will respect us.”
“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”
“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.”
“If we are not getting these offenders to stop committing the crimes, we're no being tough on crime."
from: Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer”
“If we are not given a choice to choose whether we want the vaccine / ID2020 or not ? Why should we think the vaccine/ ID2020 is meant to help us and it is good for us. Why they want us to believe they are trying to help us by killing us without giving us a choice. Sick or not everyone should be given a choice to choose ,even if it means they have to die for their choices or because of their choices.”
“If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?”
“If we are not growing together, then we should not stay together.”
“If we are not growing, we are merely existing.”
“If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?”
“If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.”
“If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
Source: Being Peace
“If we are not here for love, what are we here for?”
Source: Clean
“If we are not in conflict with Palestine than why are they so afraid of us presenting Palestinian voices? Of course the answer is obvious, and we see it throughout the U.S. and the world, controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.”
“If we are not in someone else's memory, do we even exist at all?”
Source: Time Shelter
“If we are not intentionally conscious in our communications, we are likely to cause unintentional harm.”
Source: The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t
“If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.”
Source: Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith
“If we are not making mistakes, we are not making decisions. Celebrate your mistakes. They are a sign that you are trying, learning, and growing as a person.”
“If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.”