A Quotes
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“And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?”
“And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?”
“And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some things haven't worked, and I'm sorry about that, but I keep trying.' And I'm - and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you're going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is.”
“And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.”
Source: India: What Can it Teach Us?
“And if I were to give you the heavens and all of the stars within them, it would still not be enough, for you my dear, are worth a countless much more; if only you could see it so...”
“And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.”
“And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.”
“And if I'm ahead, I can sometimes tell. It might mean I'm having a good swim, but pretty much, I'm just focused on how fast I'm going, how fast I'm feeling, and pretty much block everything out, the sounds, the sights, just kind of listen to the rhythm of the water, and just maintaining the same stroke, the same rhythm, the same tempo, and thinking about how I want to get my hand to the wall.”
“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”
“And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.”
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”
“And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.”
“And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.”
Source: Where She Went
“And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.”
“And if I'm the stars, Cricket Bell is entire galaxies.”
“And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.”
Source: Hippocrates
“And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.”
“And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers”
Source: Her Mother's Hope
“And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.”
“And if it doesn't go like that?
– Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.”
Source: The Eagle Has Landed
“And if it feels good... Feel it!”
“And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.”
“And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly obey, even setting aside their own conscience. And so we did. We corrected your deed and based it on miracle, mystery, and authority. And mankind rejoiced that they were once more led like sheep, and that at last such a terrible gift, which had brought them so much suffering, had been taken from their hearts.”
“And if it is true...that we are each inhabited by some bit of divine light, then upon death, how long before those particles dissipate entirely, becoming unrecognizable except as a part of some great whole?”
Source: To The Bright Edge of the World
“And if it’s not me, it’s someone else. There are a million ways in which the body is stolen from us—debt and interest and data and labour and literal tissue and blood that can be harvested, and affective, sexual, and emotional energy. Capitalists, which clutch and pry and feed, dreaming up ways in which they can make your body not your own, and when the last drop of blood is exhausted they’ll have the audacity to bill you for it.”
Source: Coup de Grâce
“And if joy were not on the earth,
There were an end of change and birth,
And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
And in some gloomy barrow lie
Folded like a frozen fly.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.”
“And if life as you know it could be so much more?”
Source: Yggdrasil - Profecia do Sangue
“And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“And if love be madness,
may I never find sanity again.”
“And if minor characters show an inclination to become major characters … you at least give them a shot at it, because … just as in the real world it may take you many years to find out that the stranger you talked to once for half an hour in the railroad station may have done more to point you to where your true homeland lies than your priest or your best friend or even your psychiatrist.”
Source: Bird by Bird
“And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.”
Source: Chalice
“And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.”
Source: Dorothy Parker
“And if my heart breaks again?” Mason asked.
“I’m not sure it can break again, when it was never truly mended, kid.”
Source: Blindspot
“And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.”
Source: The Works: Collected Poems
“And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“And if my men and I shall seem to be kept in these hills forever, that will not be such a bad thing, for it will prove to my people that the lord of the dark was wrong, and that hope does not lie dead in a tomb, but is always alive for the hearts of men.”
Source: Silver on the Tree
“And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you”
“And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.”
Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.”
Source: The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)
“And if my soul can be of any use to you, I beseech you darling, take it and do with it as you see fit, for since I met you, my soul has been merely floating around me, never inside me.”
Source: Letters Of The Observer
“And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.”
“And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?”
“And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me.”
“And if nothing will free us from death
at least love will save us from life.”
“And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.”
“And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul, except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are perishable? For it is impossible and would be unjust to love the soul of a person in the abstract and whatever qualities might be therein. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities.
Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities.”
Source: Pensées
“And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter.
We have fallen into the place where everything is music.”
Source: Selected poems
“And if one of these events made me feel as though I had no right to ever call upon God again, the other filled me with a driving need I could not deny. So, I keep my daily prayers, even if I feel unworthy the entire time.”
Source: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi