I Quotes
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“If a man gets his hands red with the blood of the innocent and he is conscious of this fact; he either spends the rest of his life in utter damnation and guilt or he commits further wreck still. He is a threat to the society as it stands. If such a person works hard, catches upon opportunity, is cunning, and has luck by his side he would turn the tables on the people. He sells massacre at the market, and
he hangs and rips people apart in squares. To be born rich and powerful becomes a tragedy and for the first time, poverty is
beautiful and desired. You won’t find poor,
hardworking, grinding workers broken easily, they are resilient, but the rich and elite, become agitated at the first instance of discomfort. The man who took innocent lives to better his position becomes the devil that haunts the elite and the few days they do get to spend are equal to a whole life full of the misery of the slaves they made of others.”
Source: I Saw The Devil
“If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.”
“If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!”
“If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.”
“If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.”
Source: Middlemarch
“If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.”
“If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?”
“If a man had any idea what effect fine dining had on me, he'd want to eat out every day of the week.”
Source: Catastrophic Expectations: Sex, Love, and the Pursuit of Marriage
“If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.”
Source: Ethics
“If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.”
“If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.”
“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”
“If a man has a good heart, and tries to be good to others, he has nothing to fear... If that is not enough to win the esteem of God, then He is a fool, and we have no business wasting our lives pandering to His foolishness.”
Source: Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore
“If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.”
Source: The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...
“If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]”
“If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!”
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.”
“If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.”
“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
Source: West with the Night
“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
“If a man has been married twice and has been in several relationships that ended badly, you need to ask why before you date him. So many woman are gullible and think the reason those relationships didn't work out was because the women he was involved with were insecure. All abusers blame their breakups on the woman. Don't be so egotistical that you think you have the magical assets to keep this guy in love with you. A smart woman doesn't date a man with a long history of bad relationships. She finds out the other side of the story from the women that came before her. She recognizes there is a pattern and something is not right.”
Source: The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible
“If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.”
“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.”
Source: Vanity Fair
“If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.”
Source: Speak, Mister Speaker
“If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.”
“If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.”
“If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen”
“If a man has everything money can buy, yet woos you—with the complexity of a rose, the subtlety of poetry and prose in a letter, the fluidity of conversations, the motion of art, thoughtfulness in creativity, the currency of time or his consistent hand in yours—just because he values your smile and the way your eyes light up, keep him. Keep him forever and a day.”
“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”
Source: The castle
“If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.”
“If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.”
Source: THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY
“If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.”
“If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.”
“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic
“If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything!”
“If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.”
“If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?”
“If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.”
Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.”
“If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living”
“If a man has not discovered something that he could die for, he’s not fit to live.”
“If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.”
“If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.”
“If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away”