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 to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.”
“If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.”
Source: Pathway to Freedom: How God's Law Guides Our Lives
“If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Source: Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches
“If we are to send people, it must be for a very good reason - and with a realistic understanding that almost certainly we will lose lives. Astronauts and Cosmonauts have always understood this. Nevertheless, there has been and will be no shortage of volunteers.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.”
Source: Collected Works
“If we are to succeed we must communicate.”
“If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.”
“If we are to survive, I must start and end my war this same day.”
Source: Forest Child
“If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.”
“If we are to survive the Atomic Age, we must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the world's conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great monosyllables of life: faith, hope and love. Men must live by these if they live at all under the crushing weight of history.”
“If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.”
Source: Cosmos
“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”
“If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.”
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“If we are to tempt fate, then let us not be cowards about it.”
Source: Inheritance
“If we are to transform the world, we must first begin by transforming ourselves.”
“If we are to transition to a new economy and to lead it, we must start by transforming our schools.”
“If we are to truly evolve and grow, it’s not enough to read about concepts. We must also incorporate them into our lives. Unless they are applied, and unless their worth is verified and validated through personal experience, their influence will be minimal. To really be effective, learning also has to be experiential.”
Source: Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life
“If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.”
Source: The Shape of Irish History
“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.”
Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity
“If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.”
“If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.”
Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
“If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it – in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verses. God's Word is less like a cookbook and more like a novel.”
Source: Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that these measures are forging for them. The country will swarm with informers, spies, delators and all the odious reptile tribe that breed in the sunshine of a despotic power ... [T]he hours of the most unsuspected confidence, the intimacies of friendship, or the recesses of domestic retirement afford no security. The companion whom you most trust, the friend in whom you must confide, the domestic who waits in your chamber, all are tempted to betray your imprudent or unguarded follie; to misrepresent your words; to convey them, distorted by calumny, to the secret tribunal where jealousy presides — where fear officiates as accuser and suspicion is the only evidence that is heard ... Do not let us be told, Sir, that we excite a fervour against foreign aggression only to establish a tyranny at home; that [...] we are absurd enough to call ourselves ‘free and enlightened’ while we advocate principles that would have disgraced the age of Gothic barbarity and establish a code compared to which the ordeal is wise and the trial by battle is merciful and just."
[opposing the Alien & Sedition bills of 1798, in Congress]”
“If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.”
“If we are told that the body belongs to Earth, so does your soul to an immortal., We could have brought the divine life back on Earth in today’s decade.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?”
Source: Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
“If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.”
“If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.”
“If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.”
“If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.”
Source: Collected Works
“If we are true small 'l' liberals, it's our job to seek out feminist Muslims, ex-Muslims, liberal Muslims, dissenting voices within Muslim communities, gay Muslims - we should promote those voices and in doing so, we demonstrate Islam is not a monolith, Muslims are not homogenous, and that Muslims are truly internally diverse.”
“If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.”
“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
“If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.”
“If we are truly chasing our aspirations and dreams with all our might, there should be no need to ‘sell’ the notion of hard work.”
“If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.”
“If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well”
“If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.”
“If we are truly humble , we will co-operate.”
“If we are truly in love with Christ and if we sense how much he loves us, our heart will 'light up' with a joy that spreads to everyone around us.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“If we are truly waiting on God, we won't miss anything.”
Source: Waiting Here for You: An Advent Journey of Hope
“If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.”
“If we are unable to drive forward toward a vision of the future, our present day loses meaning.”
“if we are unaware that our conditioning is also relative, we just defend our conditioning, we react against that of others, we try to destroy the other, in more or less subtle ways... perhaps humanity was not ready for globalization.”