I Quotes
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“If everything in the universe evolves toward increasing disorder, it must have started out in an exquisitely ordered arrangement. This whole chain of logic, purporting to explain why you can't turn an omelet into an egg, apparently rests on a deep assumption about the very beginning of the universe. It was in a state of very low entropy, very high order. Why did our part of the universe pass though a period of such low entropy?”
Source: From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
“If everything is a dream, don't wake me.”
“If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.”
“If everything is clear and obvious, why do so many people disagree about so many things? What’s really going on?”
Source: Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life
“If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?”
“If everything is going as you hope, be careful, keep your guard up even when you are happy! It is doubtful that everything in life will go the way you want because life has a very bad habit of either taking back directly or in some other form what it has given to you! It gives you success, takes away your health, gives you the house you want, brings you the neighbour you don't want, raises your professional position, lowers your peace, etc. While everything is going great, keep your guard up!”
“If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!”
“If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.”
“If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.”
“If everything is important, then nothing is.”
“If everything is known and we have no questions, only answers, there is little opportunity for new life to push through the walls of our certainty—it can, but usually does so less frequently and in much more destructive ways.”
Source: The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression
“If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And they grow up as young people unable to take anything from a printed page, or they become bored because they haven't discovered the nuances, the differences of opinion, the differences of approach between one author and another. Children can be trusted to skip what they don't like in a book. That's perfectly all right. But to have it all reduced to the supposedly twelve-year-old mind of the adult public is what I object to.”
“If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?”
“If everything is mission, nothing is mission.”
“If everything is noted, all your emotional difficulties will disappear. When you feel happy, don't get involved in happiness. When you feel sad, don't get involved with it. Whatever comes, don't worry, just be aware of it.”
“If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.”
Source: Cool memories
“if everything is possible, then anything is possible”
“If everything is possible, then it is also possible that something is impossible.”
“If everything is preordained, then isn’t the choice we made that day part of our fate? Is free will not part of an already written script that we unknowingly act out even in our rebellion?”
Source: Hafsatu Bebi: A story about identity and loss
“If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life.”
“If everything is the same, nothing is special.”
“If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'”
Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon
“If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.”
“If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?”
“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.”
“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”
“If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.”
Source: America
“If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.”
“If everything’s a priority, then nothing’s a priority.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“If Everything’s a Rush, Nothing Is”
Source: Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 1: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
“If everything’s treated as an exception, there is no rule.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“If everything seems strange to you when you look around, then there must be something weird about you! If nothing looks strange to you when you look around, then there must be something weird about you again!”
“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”
“If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.”
“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”
“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”
“If everything stops functioning our level will be able to ensure our trade turnover using its gold and foreign currency reserves for at least six months or more, which is more than enough.”
“If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons what is superior and devotes Himself to what is inferior shows that he values things made by God more than God Himself.”
“If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.”
“If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.”
“If everything was easy, we'd never know for sure when we've achieved greatness.”
Source: Greta and the Lost Army
“If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.”
“If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.”
“If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.”
“If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.”
“If everything was super easy and I didn't have to face the odd bump in the road or difficult time then I guess my 'resilience muscles' wouldn't be in such good shape.”
“If everything were anything," Chance said softly, "the barriers would break down, and we'd all lose ourselves to chaos. And then there would be no cotton candy.”
Source: Immortal Coil