I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.”
“If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.”
“If we wish for a new strength, we must meditate on the Scriptures.”
“If we wish for mercy ourselves, we must show mercy to all dumb animals.”
“If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.”
“If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.”
Source: Thackeray
“If we wish that in the coming times, in the fight of classes and peoples, the downfall into barbarity be prevented, these are the things we must oppose with all energy: dictatorial power of a small group or party, and suppression or limitation of free speech.”
Source: Workers' Councils
“If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound
to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the
heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of
the national body and fill it with life.”
“If we wish to achieve something, be proactive, not inactive.”
“If we wish to be free from evil of sin, we must study the Scriptures.”
“If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained - we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.”
“If we wish to believe in God,we will study the Holy Bible.”
“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."”
“If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.”
“If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society”
“If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.”
Source: A Universe From Nothing
“If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings”
“If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.”
“If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!”
“If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.”
Source: The Complete Art of War
“If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”
“If we wish to have a beautiful, peaceful and safe home, we need healthy expanding roots that go deep into the ground. These roots are our Routine, our Stability, our Structure.”
Source: Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course
“If we wish to have any hope of beating the bad guys at the cyber game, the good guys must learn to share more effectively and efficiently than them”
“If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”
“If we wish to identify the truly great things in life, we can identify them by the fact that no matter how much we are exposed to them or how often we’re privileged to engage them, they remain great despite what our perception of them might do to them.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.”
“If we wish to improve our love life, we must first improve the idea of the love we desire.”
“If we wish to improve our love life, we must first improve the idea of the love we desire to give.”
“If we wish to improve our love life, we must first improve the idea of the love we desire to give and receive.”
“If we wish to improve our love life, we must first improve the idea of what we desire”
“If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence of alien life-forms, and protect it from deterioration, then we must either allow Nature to rule or, if we wish to intervene, we must first acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of life.”
Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
“If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.”
“If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.”
“If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]”
“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”
Source: Essays
“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”
“If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.”
“If we wish to move into a better era, women need to step away from their unfeminine behavior and once again use our natural inclinations to guide men back to sanity.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.”
“If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.”
“If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing.”
“If we wish to show kindness to the dead, we must love the living.”
“If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.”
Source: A Language Older Than Words
“If we wish to unfold the mind in our children we do not leave them to their own uncultivated taste in all these things, but we try to help them to train that taste, whether it be in art, in music or in literature.”
Source: Vegetarianism and Occultism
“If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.”
Source: On the Jews & Their Lies
“If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!”
Source: Sabbation: Honor Neale : and Other Poems
“If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.”
“If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. If we never wonder, knowledge will never find us.”