I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified.”
“If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.”
“If we can progress from arrowheads to the internet, why can’t we progress from violence to peace?”
“If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.”
Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
“If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.”
“If we can put our minds and hearts, all our differences can bond for greater joy.
Pagan holiday, Jewish baby and Roman empire - the union of ideas, emotions and a reason to celebrate is the real story of Christmas day.”
“If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.”
“If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.”
“If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.”
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning
“If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.”
Source: Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul
“If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.”
“If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”
“If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.”
“If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.”
“If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.”
“If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.”
“If we can remember the difference between the temporary ups and downs of life and the authentic joy that comes from a meaningful life, we can have less attachment to having things go our way and be able to respond to life in ways that truly bring about genuine happiness in our lives.”
Source: The Essential Guidebook to Mindfulness in Recovery: The Essence of Mindfulness
“If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.”
“If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.”
“If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.”
“If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.”
“If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation.”
“If we can say, "I loved, and I received a lot of love," then great. That's enough.”
“If we can scale the structure and function relationships found in trees and crustaceans - we will be able to architect buildings, including full scale towers, as living structures able to adapt and respond to their environment.”
“If we can secure victory in this Team Shokugeki and unseat the current Council of Ten... then I shall humbly accept the First Seat as my due! This battle is nothing less than the battle to restore the rightful queen to her throne, and I shall see us victorious!
The rest of you are... yes. You shall be my loyal entourage, who dutifully serve and revere their queen! Be honored!"
"Whoa. Talk about force of personality."
"Yay! It's like she's finally back to her old self!"
"Heh. A wonderful sight, if I do say so myself. The royal dignity of a queen at all times. That has always suited her best, I think."
"Isn't it nice she's feeling better now, Soma? Um... Soma?"
"Hold it right there, Nakiri! Where do you get off deciding that?! The First Seat is mine! You hear me?!"
"Hold your tongue and listen to your betters, commoner!"
"Hey! Don't you underestimate the strength of family cooking, Nakiri! What happened to all that modest and sweet "friends to the bottom of your heart" stuff, huh?!"
"That was that. This is an entirely different matter! You just need to listen when the Divine Tongue tells you what's what!"
"Daaad! Get over here and tell her!"
"N-no fair! Getting Chef Saiba involved is against the rules!"
"That was great, Erina. No, really. You did an awesome job...
... standing up to that stubborn blockhead of a father of yours."
I think somewhere, somehow a certain father and son may have rubbed off on me a little.”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 24 [Shokugeki no Souma 24]
“If We Can See God in Our Daily Activities, We’d Be Blissful Even in The Most Trying Circumstances of Our Lives”.”
“If we can see the little things, we can see the entire universe.”
Source: Touched by Love
“If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.”
“If we can send a guy to the moon we can certainly go a quarter of a mile and not get hurt.”
“If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?”
“If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.”
“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.”
Source: An Outline of Esoteric Science
“If we can skillfully create something out of nothing and emotionally touch readers, we have done our JOB as #writers and #authors ~ Jodi Lea Stewart”
“If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.”
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: To which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays
“If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world.”
“If we can spend some solo-time cultivating these mental tools (meditation, gratitude, compassion, awareness), we can apply them in real-time to real-life situations without having to step back and over-analyze everything.”
“If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.”
“If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.”
“If we can stay with the tension of
opposites long enough —sustain it,
be true to it—we can sometimes
become vessels within which the
divine opposites come together and
give birth to a new reality.”
“If we can step back at times and have the guts to carve doubt in the concrete stone of our certainties, we can hear the beat of a thinking heart. While listening to the stirring of our deep selves and striving to squeeze through the thicket of our intentions, we may find an atoning venue of understanding and sympathy. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
“If we can still capture the enlightening sounds in the deep grooves of our memory, we may be sure we have not lived crippled in the deafened ripples of mental silence beyond the focus of attention.("Corporeal prison")”
“If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“If we can stop undermining our self as Africans and start valuing who are and what we have.
We must stop it ,with the mental of thinking that people who speaks their native tongue. Who following their tradition, practices their culture and value their heritage . Don’t know things, are lame, boring, retards, not interesting, not modern, not clued up and not Important enough. Thinking that they are behind, slow, old fashion and school, because they don’t know western or they don’t know the things we know or following up with trends ,fashion and western as we do. Invest In yourself by embracing who you are.”
“If we can stop undermining ourselves as Africans and start valuing who are and what we have.
We must stop it ,with the mental of thinking that people who speaks their native tongue. Who following their tradition, practices their culture and value their heritage . Don’t know things, are lame, boring, retards, not interesting, not modern, not clued up and not Important enough. Thinking that they are behind, slow, old fashion and school, because they don’t know western or they don’t know the things we know or following up with trends ,fashion and western as we do. Invest In yourself by embracing who you are.”
“If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.”
Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
“If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.”
“If we can successfully lift the stranglehold of bureaucracy and old ways of thinking, we can see some real innovation in biodiversity conservation in Egypt as has occurred elsewhere in the world. It's the government's call. If they continue to put people in high-level positions that have no knowledge, experience or even interest in environment, Egypt will not advance. The country has very good national experts so why not use them?”
“If we can suffer boredom with peace and conquer it with patience, we can discover our creative selves.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness