I Quotes
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“If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.”
Source: Selected Letters
“If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!”
“If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
[Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]”
“If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.”
“If fame is a curse, successful people―by definition―can’t be seen.
Almost every person I admire has a quiet life at home with someone they love, working on projects they love―designing their life as they love.”
Source: Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections
“If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.”
Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“If familiar looked like a minefield, I laced up my shoes and called it a hiking trail.”
Source: The Red Flag Diaries: This is Not a Romance Memoir
“If families give Our Lady fifteen minutes a day by reciting the Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God's grace, peaceful places.”
“If families like mine were better understood, if more people knew that adoption was far more complicated than common media portrayals might suggest, maybe fewer adopted kids would have to answer the kinds of questions I had gotten, or feel pressured to uphold sunny narratives even they might not necessarily believe in.”
Source: All You Can Ever Know
“If families resemble trees, as they say, arborescent structures with entangled roots and individual branches jutting out at awkward angles, family traumas are like thick, translucent resin dripping from a cut in the bark. They trickle down generations.”
Source: The Island of Missing Trees
“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.”
“If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.”
“If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.”
“If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.”
Source: Under the Greenwood Tree
“If Fang is in any way harmed while I'm gone-if he gets a hangnail-you won't see another morning. Are we clear on that?”
Source: Maximum Ride: Fang: Dystopian Science Fiction
“If fans are discouraged, find another team to root for.”
“If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.”
“If fans come up to me, I talk to them.”
“If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire...if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores...if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote...if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time...if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream...and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love...then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.”
“If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.”
“If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.”
“If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.”
“If fashion pollutes it should no longer be called fashion, it should be called pollution.”
“If fate doesn't give us the chance, we steal it.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.”
Source: Shantaram
“If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate”
“If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.”
“If fate is to shake me
I won't break
If fate is to wake me up
I will not stop my dream
if life is to end me
Then in beauty I will sleep”
Source: A LONG VERSE OF SORROW
“If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.”
Source: Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul
“If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.”
“If fate was life, then Lene should just stay with the “wife-beater”, because every man she hooked up with would beat her. I couldn’t believe that was true, for her or for me. I had to believe my shitty life wasn’t some prearranged hell I could never escape. I wasn’t doing the best with decisions, or money, or finding someone to love me, but I hoped I was finally on the road to controlling my ‘crazy’. And just to prove I had control, I was going to turn this train-wreck of a night around.
I stood, zipped up my jeans, and kicked open the stall door. “I’m goin’ to par-tay!” I sang out loud.
Party, but not get laid, I reminded myself.”
Source: Girl Desecrated: Vampires, Asylums and Highlanders 1984
“If father and daughter can manage to cross the finish line of her emancipation together- she accepting Daddy's flaws, he viewing hers as opportunities for her to learn and grow- the ups and downs of their relationship and mutual growth can prepare her for the ambiguities of life. The example of the father weathering his own emotional seasons can help the daughter weather her own.”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.”
Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
“If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.”
“If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.”
“If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.”
“If Faustian restlessness is one of the defining characteristics of modern humans, then, by Pääbo’s account, there must be some sort of Faustian gene. Several times, he told me that he thought it should be possible to identify the basis for our “madness” by comparing Neanderthal and human DNA. “If we one day will know that some freak mutation made the human insanity and exploration thing possible, it will be amazing to think that it was this little inversion on this chromosome that made all this happen and changed the whole ecosystem of the planet and made us dominate everything,” he said at one point. At another, he said, “We are crazy in some way. What drives it? That I would really like to understand. That would be really, really cool to know.”
Source: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“If fear, anger, and suspicion remain intact on both sides, then it is only a piece of paper; it is not peace. If there is compassion and mutual understanding, then you don't even need a piece of paper.”
Source: Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
“If fear can prevent us from potential vital danger, it can also be lethal – kills our dreams, chances, personal development and passion, prevent us from living our life at maximum.”
Source: Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for Women, Take Charge Of Your Money, Take Charge Of Your Life
“If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.”
Source: Next Generation Leader
“If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.”
“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”
“If fear is going to stop us, we should concede failure right now.”
“If fear lived in her blood, she would rather have bled out than stand there any longer.”
“If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.”
“If feeling anxious about anything Dr Bachs night time rescue remedy is great. Sometimes a bath before bed helps. Burning Lavender or Clary Sage in the room before retiring. Try not to work on my computer very late and then bed straight after. Getting enough exercise definitely helps sleep.”
“If feeling yourself up had been an Olympic event, I'd have taken home the gold medal”
Source: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
“If feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive and flying home. The music plays in my ears and I float further and further away from war. Fucking Baghdad.”
Source: I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story