I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we play hard and we compete, we match up with any team. I feel like we have the personnel to go all the way.”
“If we play in the right way and do what the manager asks us then we will win games.”
“If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.”
“If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.”
“If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.”
“If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.”
“if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.”
Source: Why I am So Wise
“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.”
Source: On Stories
“If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.”
“If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.”
“If we practice affirmations, chanting or mantra recitation the breathing becomes better regulated, the chakras start resonating in sync.”
Source: Healing Sole to Soul
“If we practice hard, concentrate on zazen, and organize our life so that we can sit well, we will find out what we are doing. But you have to be careful in the rules and way you establish. If it is too strict you will fail, if it is too loose, the rules will not work. Our way should be strict enough to have authority, an authority everyone should obey. Thu rules should be possible to observe.
This is how Zen tradition was built up, decided little by little, created by us in our practice. We cannot force anything. But once the rules have been decided, we should obey them completely until they are changed. It is not a matter of good or bad, convenient or inconvenient. You just do it without question. That way your mind is free.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.”
Source: The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila: Selections from the Interior Castle
“If we practice meditation, we can generate the energies of mindfulness and concentration. These energies will lead us to the insight that there is no birth and no death. We can truly remove our fear of death. When we understand that we cannot be destroyed, we are liberated from fear. It is a great relief. Non-fear is the ultimate joy.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.”
“If we practice moving toward our body’s distress, however—meaning noticing our body’s reactions, taking them seriously, and working with our body, not against it—we give ourselves a better chance of mitigating or reducing distress or harm to ourselves or those who love us.”
Source: With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships
“If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.”
“If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.”
Source: Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga
“If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.”
“If we pray for all people, there shall be peace.”
“If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.”
Source: Prayer
“If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.”
Source: Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
“If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If we pray to God, He will give us wisdom to solve any problem.”
“If we pray, we shall be purified.”
“If we pray, we shall have peace,”
“If we pray we shall put an end to evil intentions.”
“If we pray, we will be purified.”
“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
“If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.”
“If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall,
then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“If we presuppose that Jesus and God are one—as many (but not all) Christians do—then we can also infer that Jesus Christ was omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent, and it is with this that the idea of sacrifice is lost. The martyrdom was premeditated on the part of the Creator, and Jesus was resurrected afterward—showing that the act of ‘death’ was not an inconvenience for the immortal ‘man’ who was said to have known that he would be resurrected.”
Source: Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings
“If we pretend or imagine that life's purpose lies outside living itself, we will be searching the stars for what is underneath our feet all the time.”
Source: Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
“If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.”
Source: On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].
“If we proceed like the child does with the puppy, if we examine what is hidden in things and persons, in everything that is stimulating in this colorful world, then we will uncover nothing more than that kind of atomized sawdust with which 'science' for a long time has been feeding those hungry for knowledge. Everything real looked at in the light disappoints. The forms lose their shine, color, and aroma, like a fruit that someone has grasped too strongly.”
Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.”
“If we proportion our assent in all things to the degrees of evidence, we do the utmost that human nature is capable of, in a rational way, to secure itself from error.”
Source: Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth
“If we prove boring during the conversation after the film, our dates may say they had a lovely time, but let's just be friends. You can't buy love. You have to inspire it, partly through humor, the premier arena for advertising your creativity.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“If we provide employment to people, if we ensure there's food on their plates, if we provide them with facilities and give them education, all the tension will end. And this is why, all those who want good for the nation, I request them to compete towards development and for development. This atmosphere should be created in India and I think such an environment is being created nowadays.”
“If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.”
“If we punished only the crimes we could prove, we would not enjoy the pleasure of dragging our fellow human beings to the scaffold so much as four times a century, and that is the only thing that makes us respected.”
Source: Betrayal
“If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.”
“If we pursue excellence, wealth and honour are bound to follow, in the purest way, from the good that we have done. But if we pursue wealth, as it were, putting the cart before the horse, we may end up with only the wealth, without the honour, or the good, or the excellence, which, for a life well lived, are worth far more than mere wealth.”
Source: Augustus: Invitation to Philosophy
“If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.”
“If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.”
“If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing.”
Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes
“If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.”
“If we put another two or perhaps three justice on, that's really what's going to be that will happen. And that'll happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting prolife justices on the court. I will say this:It will go back to the states, and the states will then make a determination.”
“If we put aside the hatred, intolerance and bigotry this was a truly magical and enchanting era. You see how even Arabic Genies are very like ours. Ours live in a bottle or a lamp and by rubbing the lamp we allow the Genie to escape, for which he grants us three wishes – the biggest castle, the most beautiful princess and an unlimited amount of gold are usually favourites. But unlike the giant, blue-skinned, muscular Genies westerners are familiar with through Disney films, the Arabic Djinni are often invisible, although they have the power to shape-shift to just about any form they like, even human. Many people still believe they are with us today, although mostly living in deserts, mountains and caves.
Many western soldiers have reported seeing them on night exercises in the Middle East.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“If we put aside the practicality, we may find our wishes to be very innocent.”
Source: The Road Taken