I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.”
“If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab”
Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“If we had some eggs we could have eggs and ham, if we had some ham.”
“If we had some sense here other than to quarrel for miserable places we should buy some of the colonies of the Portuguese, it would do an immense amount of good for many of our young officers who we have no means of employing usefully, we want elbow room and it is not probable we shall get it in Europe.”
“If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.”
Source: Spiritual Progress
“If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.”
Source: The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person s Path Through Depression
“If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.”
Source: A short history of decay
“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”
“If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.”
“If we had the opportunity to speak our minds face to face,
Would we be as bold to ridicule and lambaste?
Or would we with sharpened tongues, be so quick to disgrace,
If we had the opportunity to speak our minds face to face?”
“If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.”
Source: Hasidism and modern man
“If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.”
“If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.”
“If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.”
“If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.”
“If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?”
“If we had time, we would play.' His hands tightened on my waist. 'But we don't have time, Princess.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.”
“If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.”
Source: The Drowned and the Saved
“If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.”
“If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.”
“If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.”
“If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.”
“If we had to make a bad drug legal, the worst choice was alcohol".”
“If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.”
“If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.”
“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”
“If we had to speak our mind face to face,
Would we be as courageous to ridicule and lambaste?
Would we with sharpened tongues be so quick to disgrace?
If we had to speak our minds face to face”
“If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?”
“If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.”
“If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?”
“If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.”
“If we hadn't broken every single WHO rule many times over, we would never have defeated samllpox. Never. - Arita, leader of smallpox eradication effort”
“If we hadn't had Atatürk, we would have been an Afghanistan, an Iraq!”
“If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
“If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today”
“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being—someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“If we have 99% [market] share of Ford Company, the question to us is 'How do we improve the customer satisfaction in order to get that additional 1% share?”
“If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.”
“If we have a biometric exit-entry system, we know on the day after six months has exceeded his visa.And with that exit- entry system, we can then send ICE, the law enforcement agents that exist, to go and get John and say, OK, you're here illegally now.”
“If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.”
“If we have a blind spot, it's more likely to involve those values where Americans have long been agreed, not where we are politically polarized. When they go unchallenged across generations, areas of agreement gradually morph into "timeless" truths, timeless truths become truisms, truisms become bipartisan platitudes. By that point, all serious thought has died. The values in question may shape us profoundly, but they've become like the air that we breathe, as invisible to us as they are ever present. And we can never think carefully about values we cannot see.”
Source: We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
“If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.”
“If we have a choice in how we die, I would say that's a privilege. I think we have a sort of prudish approach to death in the West, though certainly not in Mexico. In Mexico, it's a little bit freer. We're not so precious about it.”
“If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.”
“If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.”
Source: Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives
“If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.”