I Quotes
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“If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.”
“If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?”
“If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.”
Source: Collected letters: 1926-1950
“If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.”
“If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.”
“If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?”
“If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.”
Source: Night Music: Nocturnes
“If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four.”
“If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.”
Source: Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship
“If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.”
“If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.”
“If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure.”
“If (investing) weren't a little difficult, everybody would be rich.”
“If (Mike) Hargrove was his own man, I would have been picked (for the 1998 All-Star team). He is another person who doesn't appreciate what I did for him.”
“If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.”
“If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.”
“If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.”
“If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.”
“If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.”
“IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.”
“If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.”
“If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.”
“If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
“If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.”
“If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.”
“If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.”
“If 125 crore people work together; India will move forward 125 crore steps.”
“If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.”
“If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.”
“If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.”
“If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.”
Source: The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
“If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.”
“If 2012 is the end of the world can I have a table for two at Ground Zero?”
“If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one hour of labour per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has been shown clearly and definitely. Each person should ponder seriously how much hardship he is causing by indulging in food so expensively produced.”
Source: The One-Straw Revolution
“If 3,000 people perished in the World Trade Center attacks and the Jewish population is 10 percent, you show me records of 300 Jewish people dying in the World Trade Center…We’re daring anyone to dispute its truth. They got their people out.”
“If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that 1 enjoys it?”
“If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.”
“If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.”
“If 5000 people bought my record, I would appreciate those 5000 people. I make music for them because music isn't supposed to be so money driven. I didn't get into the music game because I wanted to make money. I sing because that's a God given talent of mine and it's something I love to do. If it's 10,000 or a million people, I'm going to give people the music they like from me. That's what being an artist is. Whoever likes your work, that's who you do it for.”
“If 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind.”
Source: Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems
“If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.”
“If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.”
“If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?”
“If 85 percent of Russians support the annexation of Crimea and the aggression against Ukraine, that is a very bad sign. The post-Soviet legacy is a heavy burden: Most Russians want to have the empire back. The only way it is possible to make that happen is to seize foreign territories.”
“If 90% of the people, are going straight to the hell.
So, where do we live now?
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“If 90% of the people, are going straight to the hell,
then, where do we live now?
11.05.12”
“If 90% of the people, go straight to the hell.
So, where do we live now.
11.05.12”
“If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.”
“If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for.”