I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.”
“If we put faith in Christ Jesus, we are justified by faith in Christ.”
“If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.”
“If we put our money where our mouth is, arguments will become less egocentric and more reasonable.”
“If we put our time into maximum use, we can take a step closer to our promised land”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.”
“If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.”
“If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.”
“If we put the sterile mechanism of our brain on hold, we can view an ocean of enticing eye-opening perspectives. Life offers us an array of choices allowing us to discover a spray of overpowering colors, and hear overwhelming new sounds, and smell the intense fragrances of nature. ("The final decision" )”
“If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.”
“If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.”
“If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.”
“If we radiate feelings and thoughts of wealth and affluence, we will naturally attract more wealth and affluence into our life. The same is true, then, of the opposite.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.”
Source: How to stop worrying & start living
“If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.”
“If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.”
“If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.”
Source: A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia
“If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.”
Source: How to Listen to God
“If we're able to leave room for the encounters that will change us in ways we can't yet see, we can also acknowledge that we are each a confluence of forces that exceed our own understanding.”
Source: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?
But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.”
Source: Divergent Series Complete Box Set
“If we're ambitious and desire to become rich and cannot do so, that's a failure. But if we have no such desire, there can be neither failure nor success.”
“If we're following our path, then worrying about what could or should happen is a worse illness than what could or should happen. And it's more likely we're going to be out of balance if we worry. The idea is that the future will take care of itself if we remain in the present. I really don't know what I'll do and I don't think about it that much.”
Source: The Man Who Quit Money
“If we're going to be smart, we can't be stupid…!”
Source: The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“If we’re going to become kinder, that process has to include taking ourselves seriously—as doers, as accomplishers, as dreamers. We have to do that, to be our best selves.”
Source: Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
“If we’re going to die, I want you in my arms.”
Source: Wrangler's Rescue
“If we’re going to heal, let it be so that we can get more in touch with our sensuality otherwise our healing is pointless.”
“If we're going to impact our world in the name of Jesus, it will be because people like you and me took action in the power of the Spirit. Ever since the mission and ministry of Jesus, God has never stopped calling for a movement of "Little Jesuses" to follow him into the world and unleash the remarkable redemptive genius that lies in the very message we carry. Given the situation of the Church in the West, much will now depend on whether we are willing to break out of a stifling herd instinct and find God again in the context of the advancing kingdom of God.”
Source: The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church
“If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.”
Source: November 9
“If we’re going to reject something maybe we should reject it on its true merits and not on the merits that have been imposed upon it by those who themselves have no merit.”
“If we’re going to succeed in our mission, we must put a new face on the world of burn survivors. At the same time, I recognize that we have to pull people in gently, at a pace they can accept. We must create an environment where burns are looked at more kindly and with more understanding”
Source: Remarkably Intact: Angels Are No Strangers to Chains
“If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.”
“If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“If we’re indeed, like Neo in THE MATRIX, “living in a dream world,” the inevitable questions then become: Can we wake up? If so, how do we wake up? What exactly awaits us if and when we do wake up?”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“If we're kind to a hundred people and cruel to one, can we really be considered kind? I'm not so sure. I don't think kindness is supposed to have limitations.”
Source: The Infinity Courts
“If we’re lucky, God blesses us with a few folks who are willing to look beyond the flaws and see the person we try so hard to hide. And if we’re blessed, we find someone who’ll love us anyway.”
Source: Making Waves
“If we’re missing life it’s probably because we’re expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it.”
“If we’re not careful, we may end up living our life for a thousand other people, but forget the one person who truly matters.”
Source: 10,000 Mental Steps: A Happiness Challenge
“If we're not in the process of growing, then we're slowly dying.”
“If we’re not mindful about what it is to be mindful, then never-mind.”
“If we're not naked soon, I'm going to lose my fucking mind.”
Source: Legend of Love
“If we're not warriors for righteousness down near Hell, we're most likely on the opposite side.”
“If we're only going to eat the prime cuts of young animals, we're going to have to raise & kill a great many more of them. And indeed, this has become the rule with disastrous results for both the animals & the land... If we are going to eat animals, it behooves us to waste as few and as little as we possibly can. Something that the humble cook-pot allows us to do.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“If we're products of our environments; Change our environment, change our product.”
“If we’re really to give ourselves the best of ourselves, we have to be honest with the worst of ourselves.”
“If we’re running, the need to run has likely outweighed ample consideration of where we’re running to. Therefore, the goal is not a cherished destination for which we strive, but a panicked reaction for which we will suffer.”
“If we’re saying ‘no’ to God, have we considered what we’re saying ‘yes’ to?”
“If we're serious about rebuilding and restoring what was lost in our communities, in our families, in society, it really does start here. (Reclaiming the Black Church: A Call to Restore Leadership, Unity, and Purpose – blog)”
“If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.”
Source: Fire
“If we're told that human ain't the highest among creatures,
then it'd be difficult to raise human dignity into current level.”
Source: Master of Stupidity