I Quotes
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“If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.”
“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”
“If good was easy, there wouldn’t be a word for bad.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”
Source: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More
“If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?”
“If goodness was like mint...
..."It'll spread if it ain't hedged," her ma explained, then told her how mint roots roam under the soil and send up shoots inches, feet away, making more roots, and those roots then roam, send up shoots, making new roots. "And up comes more mint. If I don't wall it off, mint will take over the garden. We'll wind up with no corn and cabbages, no beans and tomatoes, no peppers, no goosefoot, no squash, no okra.”
Source: Crossing Ebenezer Creek
“If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.”
“If goods don't cross borders, armies will.”
“If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.”
“If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question”
“If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.”
“If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.”
“If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.”
“If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.”
“If government is for the people. Why is it hard for normal citizens to work for government ?, especially if there is high rate of unemployment.”
“If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated...they will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch.”
Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress
“If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.”
“If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.”
“If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.”
“If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.”
“If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.”
“If government were a plant, it would be kudzu.”
“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.”
Source: Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
“If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.”
“If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.”
Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
“If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.”
“If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.”
“If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.”
“If Governments Promote The Principles Of The Kingdom, Then We Will See An Established Society”
“If governments, using all sorts of false pretexts, continue to restrict the rights of the citizens, so that they become mere slaves of a handful of multinationals, then a global revolt of the common man against extreme capitalism is not inconceivable.”
Source: Gesels van een imaginaire god
“If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.”
“If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.”
“If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.”
Source: In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel
“If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.”
“If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.”
Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God
“If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.”
“If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.”
Source: Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
“If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.”
Source: American Contempt for Liberty
“If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?”
“If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.”
“If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.”
Source: Allegra Maud Goldman
“If Grandma had called me up in the middle of the night, at any time in all those years, and said, "Mouse, I need you here," I would have come. I would have gotten in the car and driven all night. I didn't like her and I didn't love her, but I would have come because she asked.”
Source: The Twisted Ones
“If Grandmother were still here, this trip wouldn't have been the disappointment I felt it was. She would have known what I needed. She had raised six children, with the help of the servants, mind you, but still, six children.
I had two girls now; I couldn't imagine any more. Grandmother's strength and wisdom were undefeatable in an age that had taxed women in so many ways; I couldn't even begin to imagine how many.”
Source: From Out of Feldspar
“If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!”
“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.”