I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.”
Source: Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy
“If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes may make us human and maybe great again. ("Sisyphus' hardship on the hill")”
“If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.”
“If we misspell the message of our life story and cannot take control of the lane that we have set out, we’ll keep on wobbling on the tightrope of our future. ("Waiting for Mr. Out-placer")”
“If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.”
Source: Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times
“If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.”
“If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds.”
“If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?”
“If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.”
Source: Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)
“If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.”
“If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into a new law? Once we do that, religious fascism with all its sectarian ugliness cannot be far away. Far better a mistaken Christian (a heretic) who has somehow caught the Spirit of Christ, than an orthodox Protestant who thinks that the Spirit is mediated to him through the letter of correct theology.”
“If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.”
“If we moved to Bonk we could get a big apartment for the cost of this place—'
'This is our home, Irina,' said the oldest sister. 'Ah, a home of lost illusions and thwarted hopes...'
'We could go out dancing and everything.'
'I remember when we lived in Bonk,' said the middle sister dreamily. 'Things vere better then.'
'Things vere alvays better then,' said the oldest sister.
The youngest sister sighed and looked out of the window. She gasped. 'There's a man running through the cherry orchard!'
'A man? Vot could he possibly vant?'
The youngest sister strained to see. 'It looks like he wants... a pair of trousers...'
'Ah,' said the middle sister dreamily. 'Trousers ver better then.”
Source: The Fifth Elephant
“If we must be awful let's be awful together.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“if we must
both
be right.
we will
lose
each other.”
“If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.”
Source: Selected poems
“If we must die, O let us nobly die.”
Source: Selected poems
“If we must die, we die defending our rights.”
“If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.”
“If we must drown in the depths of our darkness… I would rather do so with you.”
Source: Strings of Fate
“If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.”
“If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
[Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]”
“If we must get to our destination and lay hold of the dreams that we’ve long desired, we must stop depending on shortcuts, magic and luck. We must be ready to go through due process even if it will require a lot of hard work.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.”
“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”
Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron
“If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.”
Source: Alexander Hamilton
“If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.”
“If we must live, we must learn to love life.”
“If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.”
Source: Uncommon Sense
“If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.”
“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
“If we must part for ever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!”
“If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon
and please myself with, while my heart's breaking.”
Source: The Orphan: Or the Unhappy Marriage
“If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.”
Source: Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries
“If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!”
Source: A Memory of Light
“If we must resort to propaganda in order to forcibly make something what it is not, we apparently have little tolerance for what it is. But what we will end up having even less tolerance for is the kind of person that the exercise of propaganda will make us.”
“If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.”
“If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.”
“If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.”
Source: Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today
“If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.”
Source: Eliot's Essays: Top Essays
“If we need help, we must cry to the Most High God.”
“If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?”
“If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.”
“If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.”
“If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.”
“If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.”
Source: Anne
“If we neglect to tame the beast within us, we will succumb to the beasts around us.”
“If we neither regard the deeds nor respect the works of God, it leads to rebellion.”
“If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.”
Source: My Antonia - Literary Touchstone Edition
“If we never challenge our shortcomings, we ensure that they remain our Achilles' heel.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road