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't get more John Rovnaks in this world, let's all support the John Rovnak we've got.”
“If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.”
“If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?”
“If we can't help our family, who are we going to help?”
“If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.”
“If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.”
“If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.”
Source: Principle Centered Leadership
“If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism.”
“If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.”
“If we can't program it, we can't understand it.”
“If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.”
Source: Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth
“If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.”
“If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.”
Source: Vile Bodies
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.”
“If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.”
“If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.”
“If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.”
Source: The Key to Solomon's Key: Is This the Lost Symbol of Masonry?
“If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”
“If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.”
“If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .”
Source: The Montessori Reader
“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy”
“If we cannot adjust our differences peacefully we are less than human”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.”
“If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.”
Source: The New York idea: a comedy in four acts
“If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap”
“If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”
“If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.”
“If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.”
“If we cannot clear away the fog, it might be better to rise to a higher level and get above it.”
“If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.”
“If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?”
Source: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
“If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.”
“If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.”
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]”
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]”
“If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.”
“If we cannot enjoy the blessings of the earth in peace, can we live together in harmony in heaven?”
“If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.”
“If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
“If we cannot find joy in the journey, there will be no delight in the destination.”
“If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“If we cannot flap with the butterflies of “happiness,” we must bring to life the cascades of “joy,” conjuring up the spell of its enchantment and rolling cheerfully on the splashing waves of the future. ("Waiting for Mr. Out-placer")”
“If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.”
Source: Public Opinion
“If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?”
“If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.”
“If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.”
“If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“If we cannot leave something tangible behind – such as a gene or a poem – perhaps it is enough if we just make the world a little better? You can help somebody, and that somebody will subsequently help somebody else, and you thereby contribute to the overall improvement of the world, and constitute a small link in the great chain of kindness. Maybe you serve as a mentor for a difficult but brilliant child, who goes on to be a doctor who saves the lives of hundreds? Maybe you help an old lady cross the street, and brighten up an hour of her life? Though it has its merits, the great chain of kindness is a bit like the great chain of turtles – it is far from clear where its meaning comes from. A wise old man was asked what he learned about the meaning of life. ‘Well,’ he answered, ‘I have learned that I am here on earth in order to help other people. What I still haven’t figured out is why the other people are here.”
Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century