I Quotes
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“If humans can do the worst acts, we can also do the best.”
Source: I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz
“If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.”
Source: Open the Windows
“If humans can take away all their wealth after their deaths, almost everyone will carry everything along with them, even not leaving some for their own children. This is an ugly reality of human greed.”
“If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.”
“If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.”
Source: Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future
“If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.”
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.”
“If humans simply stopped and reflected on nature's systems, we would see that politics, religions and convoys of war, served as nothing more than mind busts from the greater illusive intent of cooperation.”
“If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“If humans were to model the lifestyle displayed by healthy community of cells , our societies and our planet would be more peaceful and vital”
Source: The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
“If humans weren't here and we didn't care about anything that lives here, if this were a video game, I'd push the button and see what happens, because it'd be really exciting; but it's not a video game.”
“If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.”
“If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth,
then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.”
“If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.”
“If [Hurricane] Katrina pulled back the curtain on the reality of racism in America, the BP [Deepwater Horizon] disaster pulls back the curtain on something far more hidden: how little control even the most ingenious among us have over the awesome, intricately interconnected natural forces with which we so casually meddle. BP has spent weeks failing to plug the hole in the earth that it made. Our political leaders cannot order fish species to survive, or bottlenose dolphins not to die in droves. No amount of compensation money can replace a culture that has lots its roots. And while politicians and corporate leaders have yet to come to terms with these humbling truths, the people whose air, water, and livelihoods have been contaminated are losing their illusions fast.”
Source: On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
“If hurting someone who truly cares about you makes you happy, then remember God is taking notes.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts
“If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.”
Source: One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional
“If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.”
“If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base”
Source: Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques
“If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!”
Source: Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches
“If hyperempathy syndrome were a more common complaint, people couldn’t do such things. They could kill if they had to, and bear the pain of it or be destroyed by it. But if everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain? I’ve never thought of my problem as something that might do some good before, but the way things are, I think it would help. I wish I could give it to people. Failing that, I wish I could find other people who have it, and live among them. A biological conscience is better than no conscience at all.”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.”
Source: Please Don't Remain Calm: Provocations and Commentaries
“If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.”
Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
“If I abandon every memory that possesses some element pain in order to be free of pain, will I experience the far greater pain of living a life that I can’t remember living?”
“If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?”
“If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important”
“If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.”
“If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.”
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
“If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)”
Source: A lover's discourse: fragments
“If I act like nothing is wrong, then nothing is wrong. I manifest my own reality. I am made out of love and light.”
Source: The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World
“If I actively practice gratitude, I am able to keep myself grounded in the high times and lift myself up in the low times.”
“If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.”
Source: Living by Fiction
“If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.”
“If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.”
“If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.”
“If I admire my arms, my face,
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
against the yellow drawn shades,--
Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
“If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.”
“If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!”
“If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.”
“If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.”
Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches
“If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.”
“If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.”
“If I aint happy, nobody's happy.”
“If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.”
“If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense.
(p.72)”
Source: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation”