I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“If we share happy moments, we're making memories.”
“If we share happy moments, we're making memories.
But if we share sad moments too, we're creating bond.”
“If we share in our hardships, we can also rejoice in our hopes.”
“If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)”
“If we shift as we age toward appreciating everyday pleasures and relationships rather than toward achieving, having, and getting, and if we find this more fulfilling, then why do we take so long to do it? Why do we wait until we’re old? The common view was that these lessons are hard to learn. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.”
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“If we should allow for society to tell us what to think, to feel, and follow, surely we will find ourselves lost as society is.”
Source: FEAST: The Second Serving: Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized
“If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.”
“If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.”
“If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.”
“If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“If we should fail?
Lady Macbeth:
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail.”
Source: Macbeth
“If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.”
“If we should meet again I hope there will be something in the way of a wateringhole where I can stand you a round. Perhaps show you about the place. Look for a tall and somewhat raffish looking chap in a tailored robe.”
Source: The Passenger
“If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.”
Source: Life and letters
“If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.”
“If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.”
“If we show Allah just a little bit of gratitude, He tells us, 'I will increase you, and increase you, and increase you, I swear to it. If you could only show Me the least bit of gratitude.'”
“If we show compassion to one other, every day will be a Christmas, a glad occasion.”
“If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.”
“If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.”
Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.”
Source: Writings on an Ethical Life: Peter Singer's Provocative Philosophy on Animal Rights and Bioethics
“If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.”
“If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.”
“If we sink into the despair of losing someone, we do not uphold the legacy they displayed.”
Source: The Calamities of Toterrum
“If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.”
“If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja”
“If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy”
“If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.”
“If we slow down and take the time to listen every soul we encounter can teach us something new. Wisdom comes in every shape and size and color and language and form imaginable. The only true limitation is our own inability to see and hear and understand the infinite beauty and wisdom of the human spirit, regardless of its packaging.”
“If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer.”
“If we snap every moment of humanity we will capture a murder and a suicide happening at the same time.”
“If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.”
“If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.”
“If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.”
“If we speak about fundamental things, regulation of the rate is actually the function of the main regulator, namely the function of the Central Bank. And it should think of how the economy and industry react, but also of its fundamental tasks in order to ensure the stability of the rate.”
“If we speak in truth it may not always feel good, but it will always be right.”
“If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!”
“If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.”
Source: Zendegi
“If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them.”
“If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.”
“If we spend our days trying to avoid the landmines of stepping out of God's will, then will be afraid to take any risks for his kingdom. But when you know there is a net of grace, when you know that God will catch you and set you back on his path when you fall, then you'll feel the freedom to pursue the adventure that kingdom living is all about.”
“If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.”
“If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.”
“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.”
“If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.”