I Quotes
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“If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.”
Source: The works
“If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.”
“If every household clean it's own surroundings, the city will be clean.”
“If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.”
“If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.”
“If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or her companion, there would be very little, if any, divorce. Argument would never be heard. Accusations would never be leveled. Angry explosions would not occur. Rather, love and concern would replace abuse and meanness.”
“If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
“if every individual sweeps in front of their house, the community will be clean. If the community is clean; our coastal ecosystems (rivers, lagoons, wetlands etc) shall be clear clean waters.”
“If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.”
“If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”
“If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”
Source: The Library at Night
“If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”
“If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday; valentine’s day wouldn’t be so 'special.”
“If every man and woman were to take the meaning of their life and pursue it passionately, they would alter the social landscape overnight. In fact, that's how lasting revolutions are made- not by the raised arm of the masses, not by the military seizure of power, not by the political coup d'etat, but by individuals asserting who they are one at a time.”
“If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.”
Source: War and peace: a novel
“If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.”
Source: The Right to Ignore the State
“If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?”
“If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
“If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.”
“If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble.”
“If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.”
“If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.”
“If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?”
“If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.”
Source: Peyton Place
“If every minute of time elapsed on the screen equals in length of time every other minute, and obviously it does, and if time on the screen equals importance to the audience, that is, one minute of screen time gives equal weight to the emotional, dramatic, narrative, and every other aspect of experiencing a movie as every other minute, and it does, then we know something important we need to know about screenplays.”
Source: ANATOMY OF A SCREENPLAY THIRD EDITION
“If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.”
“If every movie, song, picture and feeling reminds you of her, then be happy. Because you have found what we all search our lives for”
“If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.”
Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
“If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.”
Source: Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening
“If every negotiation is conducted in public, then the minute one person says, well, what if we try this, next thing you know, the interest groups have piled all in, and the political opponents have shot it to pieces.”
“if every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong; but if they are to judge of each other’s religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is right; and therefore all the world is right, or all the world is wrong.”
Source: Rights of Man
“If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.”
Source: Charles Darwin: An Anthology
“If every other Jew had a weapon in 1939, there wouldn't be a Holocaust.”
“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”
“If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent and every adult caring for a child read aloud three stories a day to the children in their lives ,we would probably wipe out illiteracy in one generation" Reading Magic Mem Fox”
“If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.”
“If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.”
“If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.”
“If every person living, strove to create something beautiful, mightn't we brighten the world enough so that all could see the path to peace?”
Source: Glow
“If every person that is able to read, finds and teaches someone that is illiterate or struggling with literacy, imagine what a positive impact you can make in that person’s life, and the entire world!”
“If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.”
“If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.”
Source: A Door Into Ocean
“If every punch, kick done by somebody female or male (it doesn't matter) or a curses said by one of this two sexes and every other thing which makes you feel that you aren't protected or you are heart. Was replacted with a book, that you don't receive a punch or kick, but a book you will be an a librarian!”
“If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.”
“If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.”
“If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.”
“If every single person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.”
Source: Wonder
“If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.”
Source: Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963