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 really ready for thinking, not the traditional, conventional, rehashed thinking, but the exploratory and adventurous thinking, we can move forward and discover the astounding appeal of new mind-blowing visions. ( "Ready-to-wear thinking")”
“If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run. This is what we do all the time with other products-drugs, cars, electrical products and many others.”
“If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side, and costs would not be externalized to a voiceless environment.”
“If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.”
“If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs,
"The Gods are to each other not unknown."
Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.”
Source: Emerson's Essays
“If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.”
“If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with faith, strength, wisdom and help from others, not only to overcome, but to learn and to grow from those experiences.”
“If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.”
“If we are satisfied with where we are, it is impossible to make progress to where we ought to be!”
“If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source it comes. We shouldn’t fear the truth. Some of it will be from science, obviously, but by no means all of it. It will sometimes by perplexing, how this bit of truth relates to that bit of truth; we know that within science itself often enough and we find it outside of science as well. The crucial thing is to be honest.”
“If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).”
“If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.”
“If we are serious about dreaming our awakening into being and creating a peaceful, loving earth in which the heart, spirit and soul are the only true leaders, we must continue to keep our focus on thoughts of unity and all that truly brings us together.”
“If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.”
Source: Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart
“If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.”
Source: Sex God
“If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.”
“If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.”
Source: Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror
“If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.”
“If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.”
“If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?”
Source: Applications of Flow in Human Development and Education: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.”
“If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.”
Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but also a common good. I long to make this word echo differently in hearts and ears—not less complicated, but differently so. Love as muscular, resilient. Love as social—not just about how we are intimately, but how we are together, in public. I want to aspire to a carnal practical love—eros become civic, not sexual and yet passionate, full-bodied. Because it is the best of which we are capable, loving is also supremely exacting, not always but again and again. Love is something we only master in moments.”
Source: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
“If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.”
Source: The Open Door, 1930-35
“If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”
“If we are struggling at any stage of parenting, think about the atmosphere in the house that we are creating. Is it one of anxiety or anger? Disapproval or judgment?
Show your child warmth, support, tolerance, encouragement and praise. Be fair to them, provide them with security, focus on giving them approval and acceptance for their differences.
Imagine the atmosphere in the house with this abundance of these things. Your child will feel safe, loved and confident, moving into the world a whole and grounded being.”
Source: What Do I Do Now? The basics of parenting babies ... without stress
“If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.”
Source: Simone Weil
“If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.”
“If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal?”
“If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.”
Source: The Jungle
“If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.”
“If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.”
“If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped.”
“If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.”
“If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.”
“If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.”
“If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.”
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”
“If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past.”
“If we are to achieve all of the Sustainable Development Goals, more needs to be done.”
“If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.”
“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”
“If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government — is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary.”
“If we are to be able to stop on the street and talk to anybody that person would be an institution in themselves. This person can be anybody, a reputed well-established businessman or a five-year-old kid. These lives of mere strangers could be art itself, a documentation of wisdom itself. We have been trying to portrait this in front of people. And we guess it worked like magic. So exactly why not?”
“If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.”
“If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.”
“If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.”
“If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.”