I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.”
“If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.”
“If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him.”
“If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.”
“If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.”
“If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.”
“If we think we're a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let's commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.”
“If we thought God's imagination and creativity for earth were astounding, just wait until God creates the New Heaven and New Earth!”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”
“If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.”
“If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.”
“If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If we throw ethics to the wind, we will find ourselves on a journey where we’re always walking into the wind.”
“If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.”
“If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts — in under fifteen years. We could further sequester all of the carbon that has been released since the beginning of the industrial age. So I find that a hopeful thing because, frankly, we just have to get out of the way. Nature will do the work for us. This planet wants to be grassland and forest. It does not want to be an agricultural mono-crop.”
“If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.”
“If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.”
“If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.”
“If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster”
“If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.”
“If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.”
“If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.”
“If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other's beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences. That's not hard. It's really an easier and better way to live. And ultimately, it saves lives. Then again, it's not easy at all. It can be the hardest thing, because loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves. I know many of you have struggled with this. I draw upon your strength and your support, and have, in ways you will never know.”
“If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.”
“If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'”
Source: Competing for the Future
“If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.”
“If we topple [Bashar] Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests.”
“If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to an early American anarchist. You do not really encounter anarchism until after the Civil War, when you have European anarchists, especially German anarchists, coming to the United States. They actually begin to organize. The first time that anarchism has an organized force and becomes publicly known in the United States is in Chicago at the time of Haymarket Affair.”
“if we trace our heartbeat back to its ultimate source, we find the radiant heart of the cosmos, we find all of space and time, and the mysterious power of expansion of space in the bosom of the cosmos that gives rise to matter, and the power of the suns, which is nothing but a recreation of that original radiance at the source of the universe. And our heartbeat is nothing but a recreation of the sunlight. We are powered by, and constituted by, the radiant heart of the cosmos.”
Source: UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS
“If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.”
“If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.”
Source: The Arctic Home in the Vedas
“If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“If we train young women to believe their most important asset is their appearance … It is no coincidence that when women say things men don't like, the response is often not a critique of their ideas, but a critique of their appear-ance. This is the logical outcome of seeing women as objects instead of as human beings.”
Source: Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
“If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.”
Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness
“If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.”
“If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.”
“If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.”
“If we treasure meditation and don’t mind being taken off guard at every bend of our life, we can experience all privileged moments like sparks springing from the intangible fairyland of our mind’s eye. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
Source: The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers
“If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.”
“If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it is only 0.1 percent of their makeup, then by focusing on their good part, we humanize them. By acknowledging and attending to and rewarding their good part, we allow it to grow, like a small flower in a desert.”
“If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.”
“If we treat our forests right, we can at least ameliorate the declines in forest extent and diversity and the consequent impoverishment of the aesthetic, economic, climatic, and spiritual benefits we count on from them.”
Source: Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
“If we treat our social media accounts like we live our lives offline there is no way some of us would share what we post online.”
“If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
“If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.”
“If we treat people inhumanely, we should never be surprised when they return the favor.”
Source: Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
“If we treat the ideas that others put forward with empathy, we can draw on experiences beyond our own and gain new insights. Hence the old adage: “walk a mile in their shoes.”
Source: The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills That Empower Innovation