I Quotes
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“If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that
witches are often betrayed by their appetites;
dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always;
hearts can be well-hidden,
and you betray them with your tongue.
Do not be jealous of your sister.
Know that diamonds and roses
are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs:
colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
Remember your name.
Do not lose hope -- what you seek will be found.
Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn.
Trust dreams.
Trust your heart, and trust your story.
When you come back, return the way you came.
Favors will be returned, debts be repaid.
Do not forget your manners.
Do not look back.
Ride the wise eagle (you shall not fall).
Ride the silver fish (you will not drown).
Ride the grey wolf (hold tightly to his fur).
There is a worm at the heart of the tower; that is why it will not stand.
When you reach the little house, the place your journey started,
you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember.
Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once.
And then go home. Or make a home.
Or rest.”
“If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.”
Source: Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada
“If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!”
“If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?”
Source: Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield
“If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.”
Source: The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
“If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground”
Source: Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth
“If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.”
Source: The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method
“If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.”
Source: Deeply Odd
“If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing an eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no delusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.”
“If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
“If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.”
“If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.”
“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
“If an emotion does not result in a practical outcome to help you move forward, It will start destroying you inside and outside.”
“If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?”
Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it
“If an encounter with a person doesn't feel right, probably it's not right.”
“If an ending hasn't ripped apart your soul then you cannot experience a new beginning for to be torn inside is to vow in silence, to build something in a new light....”
“If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.”
“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”
Source: Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
“If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.”
“If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.”
“If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person.”
“If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may-no matter how generous and good his nature- one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.”
“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.”
“If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises de l'événement), are to each other as the probabilities of the event, given the causes: and the probability of each cause is equal to the probability of the event, given that cause, divided by the sum of all the probabilities of the event, given each of the causes.”
“If an event of the past is stirring unfavorable emotion, stop and realize that this event is rooted in the PAST.”
“If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.”
“If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.”
“If an extra-terrestrial wiped out humanity bar eight survivors, would you expect the eight to swear vengeance against the monster? According to the Bible, the eight – Noah’s family – actually worshiped the ET as God! Independence Day: Independence from God! When will humanity be free?”
Source: Locusts, Hollywood, and the Valley of Ashes: Individualism Versus Collectivism
“If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.”
“If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.”
“If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.”
“If an hour has passed and the tree’s still standing, it’s probably not the saw that’s the problem.”
“If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.”
“If an idea does not enhance the lives of those around us, it’s just a way that the mind is trying to figure out how to gratify itself while looking brilliant enough so that no one suspects otherwise.”
“If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?”
“If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.”
“If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.”
“If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.”
“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”
“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.”
“If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!”
“If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.”
“If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.”
Source: Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants
“If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place”
“If an increase in price makes you happy, surely a price drop will make you sad.”