I Quotes
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“If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.”
Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti
“If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor hot, he can be certain that he does not have faith. If anyone thinks he is Christian and yet is indifferent towards his being a Christian, then he really is not one at all. What would we think of a man who affirmed that he was in love and also that it was a matter of indifference to him?”
“If anyone thinks Indian Muslims will dance to their tune, they are delusional. Indian Muslims will live for India. They will die for India. They will not want anything bad for India.”
“If anyone thinks my show was 'pretty good,' then I've completely failed.”
“If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.”
Source: Theodor Herzl: a portrait for this age
“If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.”
“If anyone thinks they're going to get anything out of the Reagan administration for any particular group, they're wrong! You have to all combine and fight a head-on battle - in the name of justice and equality - and even that's going to be difficult. But if we let ourselves get separated so that we're working for gays or school children or the aged, we're in trouble.”
“If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.”
“If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it.”
“If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.”
“If anyone understands, it's Jesus.”
Source: Man of Sorrows
“If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes”
Source: The Legacy of Hiroshima
“If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!”
“If anyone wants to know the weirdest thing, it's getting your hair cut and seeing it on the news. Terrorists probably knew about my haircut.”
“If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people, only more so. Pierre Corneille”
Source: The One and Only Ruby
“If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.”
“If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.”
“If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.”
“If anyone wants to learn how to become a better UX designer and overall human, they should work in retail or the service industry. Front-of-house and back-of-house translate to front-end and back-end design. Not only do you learn how to manage customer expectations, but you learn how to encourage the team around you for overall, a better customer experience.”
“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.”
“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.”
“If anyone was capable of understanding how someone else felt, it was Nancy. There weren't as many layers between her and the world as there were with the rest of us. She had that rare ability of being able to stand in someone else's shoes and get inside their skin.”
Source: Disclaimer
“If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.”
Source: Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
“If anyone was going to fall prey to a handsome vampire, it was going to be me.”
“If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me.”
“If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.”
“If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].”
“If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.”
Source: Meister Eckhart (CWS)
“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”
Source: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends
“If anyone were to find out—” I began. Patch kissed me, hard, but with an amused glint in his eye. “If I get caught, it’ll mean the end of kissing you. Do you really think I’d risk that?” His face grew serious. “I know I can’t feel your touch, but I feel your love, Nora. Inside me. It means everything to me. I wish I could feel you the same way you feel me, but I have your love. Nothing will ever outweigh that. Some people go their entire lives never feeling the emotions you’ve given me. There is no regret in that.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“If anyone will listen I will continue to sing.”
“If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison of the Church to Paradise, we learn that men can receive her Baptism even outside her fold, but that out there no one can receive or keep the salvation of the blessed.”
“If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.”
“If anyone would ever bring back the words, he supposed it would be the children.”
Source: Inkdeath
“If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.”
“If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.”
“If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.”
“If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians by the Late ... ; to which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author
“If anyone's comments affect anyone that much, I think it's more about their own security with themselves, because you can call me whatever, and I'm going to be good.”
“If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!”
“If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.”
“If anyone's under a spell, Justina, it's me. Your daughter put one on me five years ago, and I haven't broken free of it yet. Oh, and you'll be delighted to know, we've decided to resume our relationship. Don't bother with congratulations—trust me, your expression is congratulations enough.”
Source: One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.”
“If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
[Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]”
“If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.”