I Quotes
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“If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.”
Source: Divided & Conquered
“If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”
Source: Nicholas Breton: Pastoral Poems; George Wither: Selected Poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock): Pastoral Poetry
“If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.”
Source: The Wizard & The Wanton
“If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?”
“If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.”
“If heaven will not bow to me, then Hell shall stand by my side and help me burn it down.”
“If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.”
“If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?”
“If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.”
Source: Collected Stories
“If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.”
“If hell...has one complexion more hideous than another, it is where villainy is masked by hypocracy”
Source: Rob Roy
“If Hell is real, then it's the life that I've lived without you.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“If Hell is the price of sovereignty, then Hell is the only place where human dignity is fully realized.”
“If hell is to roam, then i've got hell to pave.”
“If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.”
“If helping others feels strange then you haven't been doing it enough"
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“If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.”
Source: The Suitcase
“If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.”
“If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.”
“If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.”
“If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!”
“If her destruction was imminent, she'd rather be the architect than a bystander.”
Source: For the Wolf
“If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.”
Source: Fire
“If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.”
Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume
“If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?”
Source: Nature of the second sex
“If her luck held, she'd never have to know. The baby was perfect cover, it made her something else, a mom, that was all, just another mom in the nation of moms, ad all she'd ever have to do to be safe was stay inside that particular fate, bring up the kid, grow into some version of Sasha... speak the right lines, stay within budget, wrap each day, one by one, before she lost the light.”
Source: Vineland
“If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“If her rump were any stiffer, she'd break it every time she rides', I thought to Pounce. 'If she fell on the steps, they would never be able to put her together again', he replied.”
Source: Mastiff: The Legend of Beka Cooper #3
“If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.”
“If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.”
Source: Underdogs
“If her walls could talk they might recount the stories of generations of families, of two World Wars, of prayers she has heard, of joys she has shared, and somber times of sorrow, grief, and loss.”
Source: Lanark County Comfort
“If her years at the zoo had taught her anything, it was that no creature was as dangerous as a man being laughed at.”
Source: The Island of Last Things
“If Heraclitus was a Macedonian, his philosophy would be : No Macedonian ever steps in the same native country twice. For it’s not the same country name and he’s not the same citizen.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
“If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.”
“If heterosexual people can get married then gay and lesbian people can get married too”
“If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“If he’s not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It’s boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
“If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.”
“If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.”
“If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.”
“If Hillary [Clinton] is elected, is she going to be able to jack up taxes with virtually no deductions, and include capital gains? Unless democrats have a clean sweep of Congress, I don't think that's going to happen either.”
“If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.”
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like a political figure from another era?”
“If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor.”
“If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.”
“If Hillary Clinton can enthuse her base and turnout enough, can she win? She still doesn't have the [Ben] Sanders voters, they're angry at her.”