I Quotes
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“If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.”
Source: The Œconomy of Love: By Dr. Armstrong. ...
“If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.”
“If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.”
“If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.”
“If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.”
Source: The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London
“If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.”
“If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.”
“If future frightens you, Let me tell you, neither it is sure - nor it is relevant. But for sure, you are wasting your present which is certain! Live Life Day @ Time”
“If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.”
“If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.”
“If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.”
Source: Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman
“If Gage finds out, he's going to have a cow-horns, balls, and all.”
Source: Wolf Trouble
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
Source: Hardy: Selected Poems
“If gambling is still considered a pagan practice, how come it still prevails, even in our generation? And who promotes it to our children every day?”
“If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector”
“If Gandhi preached simultaneously the virtues of nonviolence and courage, it was because he believed that nonviolence required more courage than violence.”
Source: What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
“If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.”
“If Gautama grew up working class there would be no Buddha.”
“If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion.”
“If gay marriage is a real thing, gay infertility must be a real thing. It's not fair. I mean, it wasn't fair they couldn't get married, and now it's not fair that they can't have babies, even though they're not infertile, that doesn't matter. And so there must be access to infertility insurance for married gay couples, if our culture and if our society is to be fair and equal for one and all, and it is coming, and don't laugh about it.”
“If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.”
“If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.”
“If gazelles had a religion and the lion was their god they could, in order to appease his appetite, voluntarily surrender one of their number to him. This is exactly what happens among men: religious sacrifice springs from a state of crowd fear. It serves to halt the pursuit and, for a while, stil the hunger of the hostile power.”
Source: Crowds and Power
“If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.”
“If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.”
“If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.”
“If gender's what's between your pants (Then God made me a lethal weapon!)”
“If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?”
Source: Uncivil liberties
“If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.”
“If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.”
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?”
“If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.”
Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?”
“If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.”
“If geography is prose, maps are iconography.”
“If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.”
“If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.”
“If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief. I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him.”
“If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.”
“If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.”
“If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.”
“If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).”
“If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.”
“If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.”
“If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.”
Source: Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
“If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.”
Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943