I Quotes
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“If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.”
“If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.”
“If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.”
“If I have enough money to eat I'm good.”
“If I have enough money to support myself, I'll just give stuff away. I just, I want people to see it and I want to be able to do this for a living, you know what I mean? So it's just a balance. If I'm not doing well for five years, then I'm selling stuff, but if I'm doing well and I can afford to give stuff away, I'll always do that.”
“If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.”
“If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.”
Source: 道德经
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”
“If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“If I have faith, what I see as a wall in front of me is in reality a door that will soon be behind me.”
“If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite.”
Source: An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
“If I have found promise, it is because I’ve squeezed it from the seemingly impossible.”
“If I have free time I try and stay away from working at all. I work so much that I savour every second that I have free and I try not to draw at all. You'll never see me draw when I'm having a coffee or something.”
“If I have friends how come I always feel alone?”
Source: Half Lost
“if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper
“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”
Source: Perfect Match
“If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.”
“If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!”
“If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.”
“If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math.”
“If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.”
“If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.”
“If I have kids, I'll adopt.”
“If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.”
“If I have learned anything about the purpose, meaning, and significance of life over the years, I have learned that, for a Christian, it is not found in any job, even a job like mine. It is not found in any human relationship, no matter how important. Nor is it found in any accomplishment, no matter how significant. Meaning, purpose, and significance are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.”
Source: Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished
“If I have learned anything from my SIMS family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.”
“If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.”
“If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.”
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
Source: The Nightingale
“If I have learned anything this year, it is that I won't ever be ready for what life throws at me. I won't have the right words when it counts; I won't know what to choose when fate itself is staring me down. But now I know I don't always need to have the right answer.
I've learned I can go on waiting for something, sustained by hope and nothing more - or I can put it aside and shrug my shoulders. Bravely accept the fact that I can't keep my heart safe any more than I can stop love from taking everything from me.
I have learned to stop saying yes when I don't mean it - to live as authentically as I know how. To allow the tips of my fingers to skirt the darkness, as long as I remember to keep my eyes fixed on the light. And as one door opens and another closes, I will move forward with the knowledge that unlike so many others, I have another year ahead of me - another shot at making it all the way around the sun, and a chance to get it right this time around.”
“If I have learned how to transform weeds into flowers, it is because I have spent decades, deep in pain, learning how to turn torment into joy. You owe me for all those years, not for the flowers.”
“If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.”
“If I have learned one thing from experience, it is this: never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
“If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left. When all else fails, that segment of America goes to the default position of using race to achieve its objectives. In the courtrooms, on college campuses, and, most especially, in our politics, race is a central theme. Where it does not naturally rise to the surface, there are those who will manufacture and amplify it.”
“If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.”
“If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.”
“If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.”
“If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that everything ends. This is both the blessing and the punishment of God upon the foolish tribe that calls itself man. We can embrace the end or we can weep, but the ghost of time closes all doors with a finality that can never be gainsaid.”
Source: Mother of the Believers
“If I have learned so much that I never expected, what more can I hope to learn and understand, providing I am patient, and do not allow myself to ask useless questions?”
Source: The Sirian Experiments
“If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.”
“If I have left a wound inside you, It is not just your wound, but mine as well.”
“If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.”
“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.”
“If I have made one unpardonable error in my life, it’s to deny, all the time, that there are people who might genuinely love me.”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole
“If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.”
“If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.”
“If I have more than one life, I would definitely dedicate this one entirely to you.”
Source: Magnetic Reverie
“If I have more than one life, I would definitely
dedicate this one entirely to you." - MAGNETIC REVERIE”
“If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I keep a whole log. I take pictures of their cars, write down license plate numbers, everything. If they do it again, I can go to the police. I know my rights and, believe me, I will have them arrested. I will stop at nothing.”