I Quotes
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“If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.”
“If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.”
“If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.”
“If anything, it would be easier if he was actually dead," I say, "because then at least I'd know what he was up to ... i.e lying in a coffin.”
Source: Table for One
“If anything makes us unique in comparison to most animals, it is the fact that Homo Sapiens is both a cultural and biological animal.”
Source: Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
“If anything matters, then everything matters.”
“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”
“If anything needs love it is reality, for it is reality that lacks it the most - I doubt that it was ever loved.”
“If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.”
“If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ?”
“If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.”
“If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God.”
“If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence
“If anything, please take solace in the fact that you are not burdened with my existence.”
Source: Glad You're Not Me
“If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.”
“If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.”
“If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.”
“If anything, screens make me feel life too much. Screens bring hilarious highs and crushing lows... What I'm really missing is just the feeling of neutral. Maybe that's the real value of logging off and going outside—to help us remember what neutral feels like.”
Source: Nancy: A Comic Collection
“If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.”
Source: Flashman: A Novel
“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.”
Source: Lost For Words
“If anything, sources that have the support and protection of power and institutions should be treated as suspicious not superior. There are very few words that make me as nauseous as words like ‘prestige’ and ‘prestigious’. Prestige is often a shortcut for getting power’s approval and blessings, which automatically, in my view, should disqualify any intellectual from being taken seriously.”
“If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.”
“If anything under the sun must be divisive, men, in some cases, are right in letting it be precisely those matters regarding politics and religion. On questions of eternity for yourself and your neighbors, or the general well-being of nations and communities, these are the main things worth being so genuinely in love with the truth about that it risks oneself being exiled. On the other hand, the people to be most concerned for are those of the crowd who do not care about truth at all; for they are the ones who march us like troops in perfectly synchronized steps over the edges of cliffs.”
“If anything unfolds, it's supposed to”
“If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint.”
Source: The Romantics
“If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.”
“If anything's progressive, then we make progress.”
“If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.”
“If anything, a message back to [Donald] Trump is, if you have proof, if you have evidence, please bring it forward. Procedures are in place to investigate any real voter fraud.”
“If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.”
“If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film, and that whole world.”
“If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.”
“If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.”
Source: Rise - The Complete Newsflesh Collection
“If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.”
Source: Little Children: A Novel
“If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.”
“If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.”
“If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.”
“If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.”
“If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging deeper than they used to and understanding more abrasive and complex music and art. It's like being around an unfamiliar language long enough that it eventually begins to make sense.”
“If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.”
“If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do, like musically and stylistic-wise that I can write, but I don't really have an avenue to show it 'cause most of the things I'm writing are in Hip Hop.”
“If anything, I learned most from being a huge fan of his and watching movies like Annie Hall and Manhattan over and over again - that influenced the kind of movies that I wanted to make more than anything else.”
“If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.”
“If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.”
“If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.”
“If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.”
“If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.”
“If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.”
“If anything, in the podcast world, I'm relieved that I don't have to dress like the character. I don't necessarily have to do all of the physicality that conveys the character, but do as much as I need to help me feel like the character.”
“If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.”