I Quotes
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“If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.”
“If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.”
“If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?”
Source: On Love: A Novel
“If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.”
Source: Deep Play
“If Daddy had taught me anything, it was that home existed not simply in place, but in the arms wrapped tightly around you.”
Source: The Last Carolina Girl
“If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.”
“If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.”
Source: And Or Love
“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity”
“If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.”
“If darkness is the absence of light, then that is what I am when she is not around. And I wonder how I’ve stumbled this long without her to guide me.”
Source: Powerful
“If darkness was meant to rule it wouldn’t be chased away by the Light.” -Sheelagh”
Source: Rompita Kero, Healing for the Broken Heart
“If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.”
“If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.”
“If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.”
“If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between humans and animals, there's no life after death, and there's no purpose to human history. Now, are you trying to tell me that it doesn't really matter if people believe we evolved or not?”
“If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opposed to mentioning intelligent design. Yet Darwinists have been discussing ID in public school science classes for years... Biology textbooks have been mentioning intelligent design since the late 1990s—but only to misrepresent and disparage it.”
Source: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
“If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.”
“If dating Apps such as Tinder and Bumble can deliver the person that you desire, why wouldn't the Planets which design everything be unable to give you this person? Astrology is the key to finding love. I love LOVE; don't you?”
“If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?”
“If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.”
“If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.”
“If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.”
Source: The Story of Gösta Berling
“if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.”
Source: A Diary Without Dates
“If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.”
“If {Death} comes for you?” he said. “Would you be so sanguine then?”
She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. “No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.”
Source: Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011
“If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery in it, because it cannot die anymore. You think it has no mystery because life has disappeared? No, it has no mystery because now it cannot die anymore. Death has disappeared, and with death automatically life disappears. Life is only one of the ways of death's expression.”
“If death is all that awaits me, then I won’t waste it.”
“If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.”
“If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.”
“If death is like a sonnet then life would be a haiku. The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic with the last breath~ love, words fading and floating off into the abyss that is space whilst our everyday lives or days more important than normal become just a mere whisper in only a few short syllables through which we convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.”
“If death is not, who is my enemy? Me”
“If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.”
“If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.”
“If death is the punishment for a sinner, we are all sinners”
“If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.”
“If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.”
Source: The wounded sky
“If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.”
“If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you”
“If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?”
Source: A Temple of Texts
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?”
“If death should claim me
In my youth
Or when I go insane
These lines must tell you
That I loved you
Every single day”
Source: Black Book of Poems
“If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death.”
“If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.”
“If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.”
Source: Death Angel: A Novel
“If death was but a common tax, an expected loss, then murder was a theft which robbed you of everything you held dear and basked in taunting your anguish.”
Source: Church of Thieves
“If Death was so beautiful (as you), everyone would want to die.”
“If death was the black emptiness from which she had just woken up, then death was nothing to worry about. She would hardly notice the difference.”
Source: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
“If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?”
“If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?”
Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter
“If death were to come, it would not rob me of my final thoughts- they would not be in fear but of love.”
Source: Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince