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If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world. – Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent. – Henry Commager
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent. – Henry Commager
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be. – Peter McWilliams
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. – Max Lucado
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. – Thomas Jefferson
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming. – Metastasio
If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear. – Rolland W. Schloerb
If passion gaineth the mastery over reason, the wise will not count thee amongst men. – Firdausi
If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. – John Russell
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. – Henry Kissinger
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. – Albert Einstein
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense! – Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. – Ernest Hemingway
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. – George Orwell
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. – Doug Larson
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land. – Author Unknown
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Wittgenstein
If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop 'em – Lawrence Peter Berra
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo Buonarroti
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. – William Faulkner
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river. – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
If people were magnets: I'd be the repelling pole. – Amanda Madden

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