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 hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.”
“If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.”
“If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.”
“If we don't kill, we will cease to exist”
Source: Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
“If we don't know how to deal with sin then we don't know how to deal with people.”
Source: The Practice of Honor: Putting Into Daily Life the Culture of Honor
“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”
“If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.”
“If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.”
“If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.”
Source: Warranted Christian Belief
“If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.”
“If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.”
“If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.”
“If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.”
“If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.”
Source: On the Threshold of Transformation
“If we don't like a radio or TV show, we turn it off. If the left don't like it, they try to shut it down.”
“If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.”
“If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!”
“If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else?”
“If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others.”
“If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.”
Source: A Torchlight for America
“If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.”
“If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.”
“If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.”
“If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.”
“If we don't move forward with regard to creating a non-racial society in South Africa and we allow this legacy of apartheid to persist, these divisions between black and white in wealth and income and so on, in the future you would indeed have an ugly upheaval.”
“If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.”
“If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.”
“If we don't own our manhood someone else will.”
“If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.”
“If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.”
“If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.”
“If we don't play God, who will?”
“If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.”
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.”
“If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.”
Source: Coaching Wrestling Successfully
“If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.”
“If we don't put our faith to work we will soon discover that we have a faith that doesn't work!”
“If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.”
“If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and fighting wars, the results will be profound. We will gradually lose our successful workforce.”
“If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs.”
“If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.”
“If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.”
“If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.”
“If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.”
“If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.”
“if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.”
“If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.”
“If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?”
“If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.”