I Quotes
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“If I couldn’t play, I wouldn’t be alive.”
“If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.”
“If I craft my own ethics, they will serve my agendas rather than guide them. And that is something akin to racing a car down a mountain road without a steering wheel and somehow assuming that all is well.”
“If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.”
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
“If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.”
“If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?”
“If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?”
“If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally.”
“If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.”
“If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.”
“If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.”
“If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.”
“If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.”
“If I'd been a cowboy, it might've ended well.
Somewhere on the ramble, I'm sure I'd have to sell
My guns along the highway. My coins to the table
To make a gambler's double, I'd double debts to pay.
Prob'ly shrink and slink away, It mightn't've ended well.
What If I'd been a sailor? I think it might've ended well.
From August to May
For a searat of man drifting through eternal blue, aboard the finest Debris.
I might've called the shanties. From daybreak to storm's set, lines stay Taught, over rhythm unbroken.
But, oh, there's a schism unspoken, a mighty calling of the lee.
An absentminded Pirate, unaccustomed to the sea;
To the land, a traitor. I think it mightn't've ended well.
What might've worked for me? What might've ended well?
Soldier, to bloody sally forth through hell?
Teacher of glorious stories to tell?
Man of gold, or stores to sell?
Lover to a gentle belle?
Maybe a camel;
A seashell.
What mightn't've been a life where it mightn't've ended well?”
“If I’d been better schooled back then in the art of accompaniment, I would have understood how important it is to honor another person’s ability to make choices. I hope I would have understood, as good accompanists do, that everybody is in their own spot, on their own pilgrimage, and your job is to meet them where they are, help them chart their own course. I wish I had followed some advice that is rapidly becoming an adage: Let others voluntarily evolve. I wish I had understood then that trust is built when individual differences are appreciated, when mistakes are tolerated, and when one person says, more with facial expressions than anything else, “I’ll be there when you want me. I’ll be there when the time is right.”
Accompaniment often involves a surrender of power that is beautiful to behold. A teacher could offer the answers, but he wants to walk with his students as they figure out how to solve a problem. A manager could give orders, but sometimes leadership means assisting employees as they become masters of their own task. A writer could blast out her opinions, but writers are at their best not when they tell people what to think but when they provide a context within which others can think. Pope Paul VI said it wonderfully: “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it’s because they are witnesses.”
Finally, a person who is good at accompaniment understands the art of presence. Presence is about showing up. Showing up at weddings and funerals, and especially showing up when somebody is grieving or has been laid off or has suffered some setback or humiliation. When someone is going through a hard time, you don’t need to say some wise thing; you just have to be there, with heightened awareness of what they are experiencing at that moment.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“If I'd given him too much, he'd know something was afoot. Too much money is as dangerous as too little; it means you want it too bad.”
Source: Clockwork Boys
“If I’d had a bazooka, I could have blown a hole in the wall between us. If I hadn’t killed one or both of us, I could have asked you, ‘What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?’”
Source: Timequake
“If I'd had any idea of the damage I was about to do to my future, I would have spun around on that ridge as fast as I could have, and scooted right back where I come from. But I knew nothing of what was at stake. I was just a child who thought she was embarking on a great adventure.”
“If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who wouldn't allow me even a tiny chance of escape.”
Source: Touch the Dark
“If I'd had to find the answer to every question on my own every time, it would've been a really hard path to follow, but I think I was always influenced by the people around me. Who likes me, whom I get onstage with, who will lead me, who will support me. These are what's really important to me.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“If I’d just quit making ropes I’d no longer be at the end of one.”
“If I’d known a sixty-niner was the way to your heart I would have done it weeks ago.”
Source: Playing the Player
“If I’d known overtime would come with police tape, I’d have worn darker mascara.— Biscuits and a Body”
“If I’d learned anything about this woman it was that she looked like heaven, but she could make you hurt like hell.”
Source: Hunter's Moon
“If I'd learned anything from my parents' fucked-up marriage, it was that making the other person think they're in control when they're really not is often the easiest way to win a fight.”
Source: Best Offer Wins
“If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights)”
“If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.”
“If I'd made it to the back parlor, I'd have been safe."
Straightening, Vane met her gaze. "Safe from what? There's a daybed there, too."
Her gaze trapped in his, Patience tried hard not to let the likely outcomes take shape in her mind. Determinedly, she blotted out all thought of what might have transpired had Angela not arrived as she had. If she thought too much of that, she'd very likely throttle Angela, too. The ranks of her potential victims were growing by the hour.
"Anyway..." -Vane's gaze flicked to Angela and Mrs. Chadwick. He stooped slightly; Patience felt the tug as he worked the knotted scarf free- "you said you were bored." The knot gave, and he straightened. His lips curved, too knowingly. One brown brow arched, subtly wicked. "Isn't that what usually distracts ladies?"
He knew very well what ladies found most distracting- the look in his eyes, the sensual curve of his lips said as much, screamed as much.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“If I’d realised how much that pressure would build inside me, the slow descent into a dull existence, days blemished with concern for my dad and whether I’m looking after him properly — well, I would have stayed out late some nights, lost my virginity at sixteen instead of still having it, developed a fondness for alcohol, sat at bars, smoked weed, danced at clubs, and turned strangers into friends.”
Source: Maame
“If I'd spoken, even just one word, I would have never been able to hold back what I feel for you. You would have run.”
Source: Hope(less)
“If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.”
Source: A Month in the Country
“If I'd thought he was gorgeous in the dark and rain, he was breathtaking in the light of day, taller, broader, his jaw more defined. He'd even had a shave. His eyes, now that I could see them clearly, were a kaleidoscope of buttered chocolate and golden caramel, the color shifting to green when he smiled.”
Source: To Have and to Heist
“If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.”
Source: The Instructions
“If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“If I dare to tear up or shed a tear, then I'm criticized for that as well! It's a horrible double standard, but quite frankly, I don't have time enough to fight that battle and fight crime. I chose to fight crime and ignore the rest. I just keep going to the best I can.”
“If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible.”
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.”
“If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.”
“If I decide to get a tattoo, it'll be a map of where I live on my chest in case I ever get amnesia.”
“If I decide to run for office, I will release my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that.”
“If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.”
“If I decided I'm the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime.”
“If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.”
Source: The love of a good woman: stories
“If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.”
“If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public”
“If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.”
Source: Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism
“If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.”
“If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?”
“If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls and jasper gates somewhere out of knowledge and space and prefer to die and to trust the unfaltering laws of nature - if, in plain words I don't want to go to heaven, whose business is it but my own?”