I Quotes
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“If I catch you, then you'll give me the fight I've come to crave from you. If I catch you, we will go to war in the way our souls already know - until my body recognizes every inch of your skin by touch. When I catch you, I will fuck you, and we both know you'll love every goddamn minute of it.”
Source: The Cursed
“If i change my mind, can i come back here? ...
If i came back, it would still be a place,
but it wouldn't be home any longer.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“If I change my name again y'all can have me certified as crazy. Alright?”
“if I changed even one tiny little thing about that season, I wouldn’t be where I am today. I wouldn’t be WHO I am today. I wouldn’t have fought the hardest battles of my life and won.”
Source: You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole
“If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me.”
“If I cheated on my spouse or partner, and they made the choice to stay with me regardless, I would leave that person. I will never be perceived as someone who needs a nice warm bath to come home to after rolling around outside in the grass; a coddled person, an infantile person, a person who's choices are perceived as the mistakes of a toddler, only needing to be slapped on the hand and then coddled. That would kill the relationship for me, that would kill everything.
I'm not an inconsequential flower, I'm not a purified version washed down to be palatable; I am an equal. My mistakes should be treated as mistakes. I don't need forgiveness for anything that I do.”
“If I cheated on my spouse or partner, and they made the choice to stay with me regardless, I would leave that person. I will never be perceived as someone who needs a nice warm bath to come home to after rolling around outside in the grass; a coddled person, an infantile person, a person who's choices are perceived as the mistakes of a toddler, only needing to be slapped on the hand and then coddled. That would kill the relationship for me, that would kill everything. I'm not an inconsequential flower, I'm not a purified version washed down to be palatable; I am an equal. My mistakes should be treated as mistakes. I don't need forgiveness for anything that I do.
I'm not an inconsequential flower, I'm not a purified version washed down to be palatable; I am an equal. My mistakes should be treated as mistakes. I don't need forgiveness for anything that I do.”
“If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfaction, then it is not done for the sake of a higher essence whose hallowed body you are, not on account of my beholding in you a ghost, an appearing spirit, but from egoistic pleasure; you yourself with *your* essence are valuable to me.”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.”
“If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the hyper-reality to get people closer to [actual] reality. Right now is so special because it's the information age and people just want to be aware and there's no better way of doing that than through art.”
“If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“If I choose to come in this ring and walk over here and stand infront of the bald wonder twins and beat the living crap out of you, I can.”
“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.”
“If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.”
“If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.”
Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
“If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged?”
“If I close my weary eyes,
I can shut the dark out,
just for a single moment
and see the world I hope to see.
Unravel its detail does,
so slowly in the dim light.
It is a fragile dream,
half awake, half asleep.
Sketches of a world I yearn to reach.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“If I closely examine what is my ultimate aim, it turns out that I am not really striving to be good and to fulfil the demands of a Supreme Judgement, but rather very much the contrary: I strive to know the whole human and animal community, to recognize their basic predilections, desires, moral ideals, to reduce these to simple rules and as quickly as possible trim my behaviour to these rules in order that I may find favour in the whole world’s eyes; and, indeed (this is the inconsistency), so much favour that in the end I could openly perpetrate the iniquities within me without alienating the universal love in which I am held –the only sinner who won’t be roasted. To sum up, then, my sole concern is the human tribunal, which I wish to deceive, moreover, though without practising any actual deception.”
Source: Diaries, 1910-1923
“If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.”
“If I collect anything, it's lingerie.”
“If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.”
“If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.”
“If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.”
“If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?”
“If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“If I come home to dishes in the sink, they're my dishes. I watch TV, it's whatever I want. I go wherever I want, do whatever I want. I've got a lot going on. I'm not some sad lonely sad sack out there. I've got a good life.”
Source: The Return
“If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.”
“If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.”
“If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.”
“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.”
Source: Artaud Anthology
“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.”
Source: Artaud Anthology
“If I completely understood what was going on and I understood these songs, they wouldn't make sense to play live anymore. They're still enigmatic for me. I'm still searching in the songs as they are. That's what's actually been the most fun about playing and touring for me is that there's still a lot of caverns in the songs where you can go and hide out different nights.”
“If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation, then the deeper I excavated, the more I found, and that too in innumerable renditions.”
Source: Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
“If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?”
“If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.”
“If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.”
“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than an atheist does.”
Source: Mortality
“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”
Source: Mortality
“If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“If I cooperate with you, and you cooperate with me, I will keep cooperating with you.”
“If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.”
“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
Source: Pale fire
“If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.”
“If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.”
“If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.”
“If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world”
“If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?"”
“If I could avert my eyes from all the kissing people ever, I’m positive that my life would be at least 2 percent more fulfilling.”
Source: Dumplin'
“If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.”
“If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.”