I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.”
“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“If we make a comment about a person who seems weird to us without knowing what she has experienced in her life, this will be the real weirdness.”
“If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.”
“If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive pattern of our identity that throws a whirl of light on the secreted framework of our life. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
“If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.”
Source: Christian Love and It's Fruit
“If we make a point of getting somewhere, it then gives us a sense of achievement after.”
“If we make a union in these fields, is there anything we can do to ensure it doesn't become corrupt? Or that later it doesn't only look after the people who work here, we just look after our own, and everyone else can fend for themselves? We need to fight for ourselves, here and now, but we also need changes so large and impossible they encompass the entire world.”
Source: Rich and Poor
“If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.”
“If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.”
“If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.”
“If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.”
“If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire.”
“If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.”
“If we make mistakes there is no problem, but if we do not learn from mistakes then it is big mistake.”
“If we make mistakes, as we all do - don't run from God, run to Him.”
“If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way - a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good - then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.”
“If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.”
“If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959
“If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.”
“If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.”
“If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.”
Source: The Gay Science
“If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.”
Source: The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight
“If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.”
“If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the common expression of a universal phenomenon, then we could finally ask the truly fundamental question raised by the prospect of Martian fossils. If life originates as a general property of the material universe under certain conditions (probably often realized), then how much can the basic structure and constitution of life vary from place to independent place?”
“If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.”
“If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.”
Source: Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales
“If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.”
“If we manage one today, it's potentially possible we'll achieve two tomorrow.”
“If we manage one today, it's potentially possible we'll manage two tomorrow.”
“If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.”
“If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.”
“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”
Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children
“If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.”
“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.”
“If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'”
Source: The Root, the Rod and the Flower
“If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether.”
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.”
Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States
“If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.”
Source: Lost Lake
“If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.”
“If we meet a hundred people who are all attractive, available, and all have equal characteristics, what the hell is that thing reaching in our stomach that goes, “But that one! That one!” If it’s not love that separates one person from everyone else who’s all the same, then I don’t know what it is.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.”
Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“If we meet and I say, "Hi," That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we stop and talk awhile, That's a conversation. If we understand each other, That's communication. If we argue, scream and fight, That's an altercation. If later we apologize, That's a reconciliation. If we help each other home, That's cooperation. And all these ations added up Make civilization. (And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?)”
“If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.”
“If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!”
Source: Elective Affinities
“if we meet up in the afterlife aren't murder-suicides more like a life sentence?”
Source: Literally Show Me a Healthy Person
“If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people