I Quotes
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“If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.”
“If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.”
“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed through the four independent basic constants, we will be able to say that physical science has reached its end, that no excitement is left in further explorations, and that all that remains to a physicist is either tedious work on minor details or the self-educational study and adoration of the magnificence of the completed system. At that stage physical science will enter from the epoch of Columbus and Magellan into the epoch of the National Geographic Magazine!”
“If and when he breaks my heart, I'll gather up all the pieces and duct tape them back together.”
Source: Bite Me
“If and when I decide to retire I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.”
“If and when I do get "down," the last thing on my mind is writing a song. Usually, being bummed just involves lying around on the couch and taking the bad weather personally. I only write songs when I feel good - or at least something approaching "good."”
“If and when I found him and he hadn’t got his danger fix, he’d be way more than just disgruntled. More like royally ticked off. Not the best time to share my recent revelation. One that shocked the heck out of me. One I wasn’t sure how to phrase.
“Jake, you’re the love of my life.”
Ugh.
“You complete me.”
Too Jerry Maguire.
“I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
Gawd, no.
I felt my lip curl as I pictured him fixing his intense blue eyes on mine, waiting for me to explain. As if I could. This sudden about-face didn’t even make sense to me. I just wanted him, dammit, even with his insane stunts, like hang glider tag.”
“If and when infatuation passes on and you still have infatuation for the same person then you may have love. - On Love”
Source: Aether
“If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.”
“If and when they change, I will change my opinion about them."
No. If you want them to change, first you have to soften your opinions about them.”
“If and when we get back to that solid, biblically and constitutionally based foundation in this country, America will be great - and America will be great again because we give people freedom, we dissolve power out of Washington.”
“If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.”
“If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.”
“If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop.”
Source: Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series
“If Andrew really wanted to bet, he could find a way to do so at any moment, self-exclusion and all. Gambling addiction has no cure.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“If angels come not to minister us it is because we do not invite them, it is because we keep the door closed through which they might otherwise enter.”
Source: In Tune with the Infinite
“If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.”
“If anger is burning you up, turn yourself into a phoenix and use it to fly, but make sure you turn back before it consumes your life and you die in ashes to be reborn in hatred. - The Malwatch”
“If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however, you must repent (do pratikraman) and turn it around, this will result in a high level of dharmadhyan [auspicious contemplation] .”
“If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.”
Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue, and Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry
“If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.”
“If animal abusers aren't going to stop perpetrating these types of atrocities, they ought to be stopped using whatever means necessary. What we're starting to see is the implementation of that type of strategy.”
“If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.”
Source: Secret Rendezvous
“If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed to count only when they do not clash with human interests. If there is a clash - even a clash between a lifetime of suffering for a nonhuman animal and the gastronomic preference of a human being - the interests of the nonhuman are disregarded. The moral attitudes of the past are too deeply embedded in our thought and our practices to be upset by a mere change in our knowledge of ourselves and of other animals.”
Source: Animal Liberation
“If animals could speak, mankind would weep.”
“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
“If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.”
“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!”
“If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.”
“If Animals Spoke, Humanity would Cry.”
“If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?”
Source: The Titan's curse
“If anonymous [Donald] Trump campaign sources are to be believed, they`re pretty concerned he`s going to blow the big debate Monday night with an utter lack of preparation.”
“If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to buy cars made here in Slovakia then that will be bad for us. Everything is connected.”
“If another girl ever steals your man, there's no better revenge than letting her keep him. REAL MEN CAN'T BE STOLEN.”
“If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.”
Source: Straight Up and Dirty
“If another memo could possibly be sent out, this one specific to smokers: You cannot be both an unwashed bohemian and Cary Grant.”
Source: The Glass Hotel
“If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.”
“If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?”
“If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.”
“If another soul took over your beloved’s body, would you still feel the same way about him or her?”
Source: Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
“If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.”
“If answers are produced, where do they come from: Gods, spirits, those who have gone before, the seeker's subconscious? Rational- liberal anthropology, of course, says the latter. Jungian psychology would suggest a collective-unconscious origin. The answers do not always have meaning for the speaker, but they do seem to for the questioner. Practitioners have their own answers. 'It's not archetypes and the collective unconscious, or at least it's more than that as well,' says Jordsvin. 'I expect most of this is coming from the dead people, because that's where I go.' He journeys within Hel's realm: in Norse tradition, wisdom comes from the dead, from the mound. Others may focus on deities as the source of the answers, depending on what is asked: rituals may involve deity-possession (described by Wallis 1999b: chapter 2).”
Source: Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic
“If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.”
“If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an open-ended run.”
“If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?”
“If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.”
Source: City of Bells
“If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.”
Source: What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
“If anti-gay stuff is always coming out of your mouth, something very gay is probably going in.”
“If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.”
“If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed
instantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.”
Source: Angels & Demons