I Quotes
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“If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.”
“if I do everything perfectly and work my ass off, then I'll be ok.
That kind of thing, in the end, limits your ability to enjoy life; and it doesn't get the best out of you, it really doesn't”
“If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't mean I don't trust you.It's just because I can't.Sometimes even best friends have to keep secrets from each other." -Cass”
Source: This Book Is Not Good For You
“If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.”
Source: Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain
“If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.”
“If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.”
“If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.”
“If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?”
“If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.”
“If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.”
“If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast who treats my upholstery like a shrine.”
“If I do marry I want it to be for love”
“If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.”
“If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.”
“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
Source: Complete Works
“If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.”
Source: The Heretic's Daughter
“If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.”
Source: Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
Source: If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?
“If I do not go within, I go without.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“If I do not have 100% confidence that an airline is going to fly me to my final destination, then I can no longer book with that airline.”
“If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know.
If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know.”
Source: Selected Works of RD Laing: Knots
“If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.”
“If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.”
“If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.”
“If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.”
“If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.”
“If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.”
Source: Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World
“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
“If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.”
“If I do something for a public space, it's not something that I have in my head and go, "Oh that's a good location. I should put it here." That for me never exists. When I see the site, then I have an idea that is new and I would never do unless it's there. It's the space or the people there, which will give me the idea.”
“If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.”
“If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.”
“If I do something
Just to please my mom
I maybe wrong
If I do something
Just to displease my mom
I will always be wrong”
“If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it”
“If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.”
“If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.”
“If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.”
“If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.”
“If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'”
“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”
“If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.”
“If I do, I say so. That's the only way out of that. If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words "I don't know." I mean, there are certain basic principles, like the dignity of the individual and the individual's responsibility, and certain basic economic principles, like how when something costs less, more of it will be consumed... There are certain things that I feel pretty confident about.”
“If I don’t act upon that which I say I trust, I am doing neither and therefore I am accomplishing nothing.”
“If I don’t believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me.”
“If I don't care what toothpaste you use, then why should I care who's in your bed?”
Source: 29 Dimes: A Love Story
“If I don't do that,
I do this.
So what I don't do,
Is responsible
for what I do”