I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.”
Source: Eagles Die Too
“If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.”
“If we focus on the inner world which makes us all the same, then the outer world will not seem in such conflict. It will be enlivening not dividing, enriching not impoverishing, uniting not damaging.”
Source: Writing: A Spiritual Voice
“If we focus on the means to change a person's state in the direction of what we believe is greater health, we are also stepping out of empathic connection. This is a violation of our innate expectation, at every biological level, that we are meant to be embedded in a nest of warm relationships.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.”
“If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives”
Source: The Power of Intention
“If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.”
“If we follow the ancestral line of our umbilical cord from our mother, to her mother’s mother, her mother’s mother’s mother, and so on, eventually we will reach our primal mother—the one we all share.”
Source: Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life
“If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket.”
“If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.”
“If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.”
Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.”
“If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.”
“If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.”
“If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.”
“If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.”
“If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.”
Source: Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends
“If we found a ticket to Disneyland would you think we should arrest Mickey Mouse?”
Source: Spectral Witness
“If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.”
“If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.”
Source: Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer
“If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.”
“If we fully obey the commands of God, we shall be fearless souls.”
“If we fully trust that God is as beautiful as he reveals himself to be on the cross, we must regard the ugly surface appearance of these portraits to reflect the sinful way his people imagined God, not the way God actually is. But when we by faith look through the ugly surface of these portraits, we can see God stooping out of love to meet his people where they are at and to bear their sin, which is why in Scripture he takes on an ugly surface appearance that reflects the ugliness of their sin.”
“If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.”
“If we further consider this divine panoramic view within which all evil is supposedly a "secret good" is held by a God who, according to Scripture, has a passionate hatred toward all evil, the "solution" becomes more problematic still. For it is certainly not clear how God could hate what he himself wills and sees as a contributing ingredient in the good of the whole. If all things play themselves out according to a divine plan, how can God genuinely hate anything?”
Source: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict
“If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.”
Source: Theory of International Politics
“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”
“If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.”
“If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.”
“If we genuinely believe ‘we belong to each other,’ we must dismantle the systems and beliefs that perpetuate division.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“If we genuinely want to do something or we reframe the perspective from which something is viewed, then the amount of willpower expended drops astronomically.”
“If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.”
“If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.”
“If we get agriculture right in Africa, where most of the people now are working in that sector, not only would it help boost development but we will be secure in terms of food and nutrition and then be able to move on to other areas.”
“If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.”
“If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.”
“If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.”
“If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.”
“If we get it right, there need not be losers.”
“If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.”
Source: Grace: A Bigger View of God's Love
“If we get mugged or kidnapped, I'm gonna be pissed," Maritza told Yadriel.”
Source: Cemetery Boys
“If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.”
“If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him”
“If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.”
“If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.”
“If we get separated there’s not much hope of us ever meeting anywhere, but I need to keep up the pretense of hope because that may be all we have.”
Source: Angelfall
“If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he can do nothing but move from one ghetto to another and one slum to another, the despair and the disappointment will be so great that it will be very difficult to keep the struggle disciplined and nonviolent.”