I Quotes
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“If any QB can complete passes to himself, it's Johnny Manziel.”
“If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.”
“If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.”
“If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall mutiny or rise up against their commanders and officers; if any should preach or write that there should be no commanders or officers because all are equal in Christ, therefore no master or officers, no laws nor orders, nor corrections nor punishments - I say I never denied that in such cases, the commander may judge, resist, compel, and punish such transgressors according to their deserts and merits.”
“If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.”
“If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god’s favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity.”
“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”
“If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.”
“If any running event, you are absolutely alone. Nobody can help you.”
“If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish.”
“If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“If any should like the World I have made, and be willing to be my Subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such, I mean in their Minds, Fancies or Imaginations; but if they cannot endure to be Subjects, they may create Worlds of their own, and Govern themselves as they please.”
Source: The Blazing World and Other Writings
“If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.”
“If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.”
“If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.”
“If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.”
Source: Lo!
“If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.”
“If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“If any subject, kidnaps its beloved; its love becomes the crime. Similarly, if any force, overthrows its elected figure, even assuming a good faith; it is a crime against the state and its people.”
“If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.”
Source: The Showings of Divine Love
“If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.”
Source: A Personal Matter
“If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.”
Source: The Culture of Make Believe
“If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.”
“If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.”
Source: Civil Disobedience
“If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.”
Source: Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)
“If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.”
“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then
explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for
us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”
“If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.”
“If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.”
“If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a long time, and now its your own turn to get a share from her itching tunnel.”
“If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.”
“If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West”
“If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits.”
“If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.”
“If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
“If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.”
“If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.”
“If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.”
“If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.”
Source: The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“If anybody attacks us we will readjust and mobilise ourselves for action immediately. That will be the end of the ceasefire if it happens during the ceasefire period. If it happens after we have won the elections, naturally we will put up a resistance.”
“If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.”
“If anybody can make a change it's the rappers.”
“If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.”
“If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them... I bought original, real guns of the type we used in Tomb Raider for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I'd be able to use it if I had to.”
“If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?”
“If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.”
“If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.”
“If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.”
Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith