I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we're unwilling to fail, then we're unwilling to succeed.”
“If we’re willing to give up our values in pursuit of the things we want we’re willing to give the things we want more value than we are willing to give ourselves.”
“If we’re wrapping ourselves up to conceal any vulnerability, whatever happens to us has to go through all those extra layers. Sometimes love doesn’t even reach where we truly live.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“If we’re wrong about your whole immortality and somehow they take you, wait for me at the dark river. I’ll bring you home.”
“Hades himself would turn me back at the gate knowing your coming, and I’d fight like hell to meet you halfway.”
Source: Lore
“If we’re wrong about your whole immortality and somehow they take you, wait for me at the dark river. I’ll bring you home.”
“Hades himself would turn me back at the gates knowing you’re coming and that I’d fight like hell to meet you halfway.”
Source: Lore
“If we reach common ground, and can understand what everybody's going through, we can really affect change. And make sure that everyone is trated equally and has the same freedom.”
“If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.”
“If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.”
Source: On War
“If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.”
“If we read the Gospel, we shall know the goodness of the Good News.”
“If we read the Holy Bible, we shall know better ways of living life.”
“If we read the Scripture, we shall know what God requires of us.”
“If we read the scriptures, we shall escape the evils of sin.”
“If we read the Word of God, we shall know the will of God.”
“If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.”
“If we read, we shall renew our mind.”
“If we realise the true nature of our existence, then the world appears to be pain covering the mask of pleasure.”
“If we realize that the assumptions by which the person has lived his or her life are collapsing, that the assembled strategies of the provisional personality are decompensating, that a world-view is falling apart, than the thrashing about is understandable. In fact, one might even conclude that there is no such thing as a crazy act if one understands the emotional context. Emotions are not chosen they choose us and have a logic of their own.”
Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
“If we realize the divinity that enlivens all life forms on our planet, we will spread peace and love wherever we go.”
Source: Inner and Outer Peace through Meditation
“If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain
and suffering at our hands, then, of course were going to be, as a
movement, blowing things up and smashing windows I think its a great way
to bring about animal liberation I think it would be great if all of the
fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that
fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people
to take bricks and toss them through the windows ... Hallelujah to the
people who are willing to do it.”
“If we really believe that He who begun the work will be faithful to complete it, why do we put a time limit on Him? EL”
“If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all.”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“If we really believed that any law is justified if it saves just one life, we would require all Americans to pass a mental-health evaluation on a regular basis or be institutionalized (over 38,000 Americans commit suicide annually). We would outlaw all motor vehicles (almost 35,000 Americans die in vehicle accidents annually). We would require all houses to be single-story structures (over 26,000 die in falls annually). We would ban alcohol (almost 17,000 die annually from alcohol-related liver disease). We would require people to be certified as swimmers before allowing them into any large body of water (over 3,500 die from drowning annually). We would prohibit women from getting pregnant unless they had no family history of birth complications (over 900 American women die in childbirth annually).
Of course none of these things will ever happen, nor should they. Life is full of dangers that cannot be legislated away.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.”
“If we really care about safety we would close down WikiLeaks. We would treat the people at WikiLeaks as enemy combatants. We would declare that the kind of thing this private did is treason. WikiLeaks is not a fun and games event. WikiLeaks undermines profoundly the ability of the United States to work around the world. Why would you, if you were a foreigner thinking about helping the United States, why would you confide anything to an American when you know that it could end up in The New York Times based on some leak?”
“If we really desire God’s help, we should not look to ourselves, but to him... The more we are able to look outward and forget ourselves, the more easily our mind can be freed and healed by God.”
Source: Freedom from Sinful Thoughts
“If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.”
“If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.”
“If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that
it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.”
Source: In the Dark Places of Wisdom
“If we really feared the crash, most of us would be unable to look at a car, let lone drive one.”
“If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.”
“If we really knew what God had for us, we would pray more.”
“If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.”
“if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.”
“If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.”
“If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.”
Source: Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa
“If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.”
“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war's perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war's consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining…
The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war's refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless.”
Source: Death of the Liberal Class
“If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!”
“If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?”
“If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.”
“If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.”
“If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.”
Source: Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables
“If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.”
“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”
Source: Conversations with Rita Dove
“If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe its inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.”
“If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.”
Source: Not for Sale At Any Price: How We Can Save America for Our Children
“If we really want to know, who we are and recognize our identity, we have to find out the identity of the others. By making friends with the others, we are able to make friends with ourselves. At that moment, we can sense how everything falls into place. ( “ Steps in the unknown" )”
“If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.”