I Quotes
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“If a criminal has the right to see a lawyer, why doesn’t a working person have the right to see a doctor?”
Source: Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy
“If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876
“If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.”
“If a crystal ball gives God any advantage, then you've got a stupid God.”
“If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.”
“If a cuddle promises home, then a cuddle is a dense relationship field where histories get connected and intertwine. It is a corporeal paradigm for relations, where these histories, like people, touch; where a body re-composes its needs artfully onto and energetically into another body; where the skin we live within offers protection to a self, an other, and becomes a dependable home; where at times it is easy for limbs and other parts to reach across diving lines, become entangled with other limbs and other parts.”
Source: On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace (Vagabonds)
“If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.”
Source: Magic Burns
“If a culture is good or evil, it is only because of its carriers.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.”
Source: The Essential Ken Wilber
“If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.”
“If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.”
“If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.”
“If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.”
“If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too”
“If a Danish politician would go up and say he believes in God, people would be a little bit taken aback by that because it's slightly different there than in the U.S. Most of Europe is not that faith based, especially in terms of the politics, and politicians don't use that there.”
“If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.”
“If a decision cannot make you....then it's not a decision”
“If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.”
“If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read:
To the glory of Man.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.”
“If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which both are united, then the expression: gives the series for the progeny of plants hybrid in a pair of differing traits.”
Source: Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study
“If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?”
“If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.”
Source: Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.”
“If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.”
“If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.”
“If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.”
“If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen.”
“If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.”
“If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out.”
“If a disciple is old,
a master should be mature.
If a disciple is young,
a master should be accessible.
If a disciple is brave,
a master should be fearless.
If a disciple is shrewd,
a master should be wise.
If a disciple is strong,
a master should be powerful.
If a disciple is learned,
a master should be enlightened.
If a disciple is contented,
a master should be joyful.
If a disciple is faithful,
a master should be devoted.
If a disciple is tolerant,
a master should be peaceful.
If a disciple is intro inspective,
a master should be self-aware.
If a disciple is focused,
a master should be determined.
If a disciple is exceptional,
a master should be perfect.”
“If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.”
“If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.”
“If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.”
“If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.”
“If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him.”
“If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“If a dog manages and directs a thousand sheep, it is not because of the genius of the dog, but because of the sheep's folly!”
“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
“If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.”
“If a door closes on a path you want to take, you can either look for another path, or you can try and break down the door. Both are valid options, and only you can choose whether the effort of breaking down the door, or the sacrifice of giving up on that path, are worth it for you. - The Malwatch”
“If a door closes on you and you cannot find another to open, carve out your own.”
“If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.”
Source: Stability and Change in Africa
“If a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side...
The pleasure - the privilege is mine.”
“If a dragon has already transferred their consciousness to their heart of hearts, then they will die a true death.”
“If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.”
Source: Nights as day, days as night
“If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Source: The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic