I Quotes
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“If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“If food is a fuel, we should feel that the tank is emptiest when the longest time has elapsed since it was filled - usually in the morning.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.”
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities
“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.”
“If food or music ain't helping none then you know something must be really wrong”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.”
“If food were free, why work?”
“If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.”
“If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.”
“If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.”
“If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.”
“If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.”
Source: Ocho Cinco: What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way
“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)”
“If for even a moment I would pull myself away from this mad search for everything that I don't have to take a look at everything that I do have, this mad search would instantly devolve into a calm peace. And if there’s one thing I don’t have that has driven this mad search, you can bet that this is probably it.”
“If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.”
Source: The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics
“If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.”
“If for example you are diagnosed with depression, then your clinician might prescribe therapy to reduce your depression and or recommend anti-depressant medication. As we have discussed previously though, reducing the symptoms of mental illness does not seem to reduce the probability that someone will make a suicide attempt. Two treatments in particular, dialectical behavior therapy DBT and cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention, CBT-SP, have demonstrated the ability to reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors in multiple studies conducted by multiple research teams. Other treatments that share many of the same characteristics and components as these treatments via attempted suicide.”
Source: Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better
“If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.”
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea...The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous.”
“If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.”
“If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.”
“If for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.”
“If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?”
Source: The Good Soldier
“If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.”
“If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service.”
“If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.”
“If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.”
Source: So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service
“If for some reason creative channels are closed or the ability to find some outlet for the creative drive is blocked, then the course of the drive is deflected and the energy will be turns toward destructive ends: mental illness, alcoholism, drugs, sex, suicide.”
Source: Just This Side of Madness: Creativity and the Drive to Create
“If for some reason we get separated, I want you to wait for me. I’ll find you, I promise. - Gabriel Emerson”
Source: Gabriel's Inferno
“If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.”
Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.”
Source: Hippocrates
“If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.”
“If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.”
“If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead.”
“If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,
what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties,
what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea,
what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong -
can you doubt we were made for each other?”
“If forever was a reality, nobody would commit anything for forever.”
“If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.”
“If forgiveness comes through understanding, and if understanding is just a matter of time and application then we might as well begin forgiving right at the beginning of any drama rather than put ourselves through the full cycle of festering, incapacitation, reluctant healing and eventual blessing.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.”
“If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.”
“If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies.”
“If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.”
“If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.”
“If fortune torments me, hope contents me.”
Source: The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.”
Source: A Writer's Notebook
“If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.”