I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.”
Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
“If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.”
“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.”
“If we have just partaken of a philosopher's wisdom, we go through the streets feeling as if we had been transformed and had become great; for we encounter only people who do not know this wisdom, and thus we have to deliver a new, unheard-of judgement about everything; because we have acknowledged a book of laws, we also think we now have to act like judges”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.”
“If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.”
“If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.”
Source: Ill Fares the Land
“If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.”
Source: the Promise of Space
“If we have less time alive than the time we have lived, shouldn't it all be comfort food?”
“If we have life, we must live for the glory of God.”
“If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be”
Source: Collected Works
“If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying.”
Source: Pond
“If we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.”
Source: May Peace And Happiness Prevail: Barcelona Speech
“If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.”
“If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.”
“If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.”
“If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.”
“If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“If we have never sought, we seek Thee now;
Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars;
We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow,
We must have Thee, O Jesus of the Scars.
The heavens frighten us; they are too calm;
In all the universe we have no place.
Our wounds are hurting us; where is the balm?
Lord Jesus, by Thy Scars, we claim Thy grace.
If, when the doors are shut, Thou drawest near,
Only reveal those hands, that side of Thine;
We know to-day what wounds are, have no fear,
Show us Thy Scars, we know the countersign.
The other gods were strong; but Thou wast weak;
They rode, but Thou didst stumble to a throne;
But to our wounds only God’s wounds can speak,
And not a god has wounds, but Thou alone.”
“If we have no commonly agreed criterion for measuring length, we will never agree about how much land is yours, and how much is mine, or how to cut lengths of wood when we build a house. There would be chaos.”
Source: Shantaram
“If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to lead. Let us remember that the Bible contains two proverbs we cannot afford to forget. The first is ""Man does not live by bread alone"" and the second is ""Where there is no vision, the people perish.""”
“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45
“If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.”
“If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.”
“If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.”
Source: No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work
“If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.”
“If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.”
“If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
“If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?”
“If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.”
“If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.”
“If we have not been able to create a prosperous world, the blame for this should not only be placed on the greedy and predatory people who have become extremely rich, but also on the naive poor who allow and help such people to become rich!”
“If we have not changed, we have not learned”
Source: QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question
“If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.”
“If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.”
“if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without”
“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.”
“If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”
Source: Say Uncle: Poems
“If we have not won the battle inside of us, we will only have the illusion of victory in the battles outside of us.”
“If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.”
“If we have nothing to live for, we have to create something to live for.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination”
“If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?”
“If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.”
“If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.”