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 uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.”
Source: The Poverty of Historicism
“If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.”
“If we are undone, we are the most splendidly ruined of any nation in the universe.”
“If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.”
“If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
“If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life.”
Source: Melody Beattie 3 Title Bundle: Author of Codependent No More and Three Other Best Sellers: A collection of three Melody Beattie best sellers
“If we are Unkind, we are not Mankind.”
“If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.”
Source: The Language of Letting Go
“If we are waiting on God to work His healing power in our lives and to get us back on solid ground, we must receive His grace in this time--not lean on our own selves.”
Source: The Joy of the In-Between: 100 Devotions for Trusting God in Your Waiting Season: A Devotional
“If we are well, we must work.”
“If we are what we eat, why aren't we new, improved, fat-free, and light.”
“If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.”
“If we are willing to allow our dark side to be a part of the whole of who we are, we will find it comes equipped with all the power, skill, intelligence, and force needed to do great things in the world.”
“If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.”
“If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.”
“If we are willing to contemplate nuclear war and the wholesale destruction of our emerging global society, should we not also be willing to contemplate a wholesale restructuring of our societies? From an extraterrestrial perspective, our global civilization is clearly on the edge of failure in the most important task it faces: to preserve the lives and well-being of the citizens of the planet. Should we not then be willing to explore vigorously, in every nation, major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental redesign of economic, political, social and religious institutions?
Faced with so disquieting an alternative, we are always tempted to minimize the seriousness of the problem, to argue that those who worry about doomsday’s are alarmists; to hold that fundamental changes in our institutions are impractical or contrary to ‘human nature’, as if nuclear war were practical, or as if there were only one human nature. Full-scale nuclear war has never happened. Somehow this is taken to imply that it never will. But we can experience it only once. But then it will be too late to reformulate the statistics.”
Source: Cosmos
“If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.”
Source: The Essential Louise Hay Collection
“If we are willing to love and accept a child, a child is ready to accept Jesus.”
“If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.”
Source: Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief
“If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783
“If we are wise, we never leave school.”
Source: Menticulture: Or, The A-B-C of True Living
“If we are with someone out of choice, we should act accordingly, and choose to communicate rather than deteriorate.”
“If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.”
Source: The Writings of Ron Baratono
“If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.”
Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.”
“If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.”
“If we aren’t focused on living life to the best of our ability, we’re slowly dying a death that’s of our own choosing. The odd thing is we get to pick the course we take. Why would someone choose not to live life at full capacity? Scott Hildreth, Unleashed”
Source: Unleashed
“If we aren't trustworthy to our own words
and values, why should we expect others to trust us with their resources, let alone with their lives?”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“If we aren't willing to change, we aren't willing to unconditionally love.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.”
Source: Tarkin
“If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it.”
“If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles
“If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.”
“If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.”
“If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!”
“If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.”
“If we aren’t prepared to be counter-cultural we aren’t ready to be Christians.”
“If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.”
“If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.”
“If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.”
“If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.”
“If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.”
Source: Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable
“If we ask a random orthodox religious person, what is the best religion, he or she would proudly claim his or her own religion to be the best. A Christian would say Christianity is the best, a Muslim would say Islam is the best, a Jewish would say Judaism is the best and a Hindu would say Hinduism is the best. It takes a lot of mental exercise to get rid of such biases.”
Source: Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker
“If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'”
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues
“If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.”
“If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.”
“If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.”
Source: What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith
“If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.”
“If we ask the right question, we can change the world.”