I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.”
“If we don't learn how to use the right things from our imaginations, the wrong things you use will become you”
“If we don't learn to break bread with each other, there'll come a day when none of us will have any bread to break.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“If we don’t like these monsters we’re creating then maybe we should consider the Frankensteins we have ourselves become.”
“If we don’t live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs from our neighbors’ reality, our surroundings may take a range of discordant shades and daily episodes become unrecognizable. But if we endeavor to find out, the “who is who”, the “what is what” and the “where is Waldo”, we might demonstrate our social literacy and connectedness. ("Fish for silence.")”
“If we don't live RIGHT, then our SWEET CHILDREN will become STREET CHILDREN.”
“If we don’t look within nature, we cannot look within ourselves. If we cannot admire the clear and sweet world, we cannot appreciate our clear and sweet selves… as the soul cannot flow in without a source.”
Source: Nature's 1st Gem Is Green
“If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.”
“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ("Into a new life")”
“If we don't meet again, we'll greet each other in the stars.”
Source: Prisoners of Betrayal
“If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“If we don’t practice mindfulness, our cravings and sensual desires will overwhelm us.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“If we don't reach towards our own potential, we won't feel truly fulfilled.”
“If we don’t readjust our perception in time, the screeching hinges in our mind may break for want of oil and our viewing angle narrow unremittingly, thus inducing blurred vision, misinterpretation and incomprehension. ( "Drunken sailor" )”
“if we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death.”
“If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.”
“If we don't sacrifice our selfishness at the altar of harmony, we'll have to sacrifice tranquility of our children at the altar of segregation.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“If we don’t seriously rethink the current course of our nation, any conversation regarding freedom will be in the past tense.”
“If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.”
Source: Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
“IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now...We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style”
“If we don’t stay hungry for attention and awareness, our life is doomed to remain bare and fallow. ("Love lying fallow ").”
“If we don't take responsibility of what happens to our society, then no amount of Independence can improve human condition.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“If we don't take the time to tell our children about our culture, they'll lose it. But we also have to be aware that in each culture there are flowers and garbage, and there is no need to idealize one culture or denigrate another.”
Source: Answers from the Heart Publisher: Parallax Press
“If we don't talk about death, it becomes the monster in the closet, the hand that grabs your leg from underneath the bed. It becomes a fear that takes away from the quality of the time you have left. To live with low-grade anxiety about something you have no control over steals your happiness.”
Source: If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging
“If we don’t try to savor the small, shiny points of light that flicker in an otherwise grim world, we’ll all lose it.”
“If we don’t wake the hell up and make a stand, it’s only a matter of time before we’re all dead. This is a war we’re fighting and the dead are winning.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“If we don’t want life to pass us by, while the world is swiveling around us, let’s look inwards and turn things upside down in the inner chambers of our mind. Only after reshuffling our rooted values we can look outwards, find out the fascinations of life, and rediscover our selves, layer after layer. (“Finally unbend « )”
“If we don’t want life to treat us like poor clodhoppers or bland hang-abouts, we have to turn ‘surviving’ into ‘living’, readjust our course and propel pointedly a precise track, without being deterred by fear and apprehension. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )”
“If we don’t want to change ourselves, how can we expect progress and abundance?”
“If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.”
“If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.”
“If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.”
“If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing begins again and he carries on developing these weapons and these are dangerous weapons, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorists who we know want to use these weapons if they can get them.”
“If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.”
“If we don't all leave the euro behind, it will explode. Either there will be a popular revolt because the people no longer want to be bled out. Or the Germans will say: Stop, we can't pay for the poor anymore.”
“if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.”
“If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.”
“If we don't become a country that makes things again, we won't have enough jobs for our people.”
“if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?”
“If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.”
“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
“If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?”
“If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.”
Source: When The Devil Holds The Candle
“If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.”
“If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.”
“If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel
“If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.”
“If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.”
“If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.”