I Quotes
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“If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?" - Lucien Vanserra”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.”
Source: Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
“If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.”
“If I only could explain
How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain.”
“If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.”
“If I only did TV show, I'd probably not be the happiest girl. I love the show, but I'm an actor and I want to work on different things. TV lasts for so much of the year that you're just aching to play a different part. And I love movies so much that I want to be a part of as many as I can.”
“If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything”
“If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.”
“If I only go as far as I can take myself, I’m not all that certain that I’ve gone much of anywhere at all. But once I dared to look outside of myself, I realized that God hands out unlimited passes to the anywhere of everywhere.”
“If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.”
“If I only had 24 hours to live, I'd most likely spend it letting people know I loved them, and trying to make things right with whoever things were wrong with. One thing about life, man, once you're gone, the only true impact you have is on the lives you affected positively, no matter how many hit songs or movies you had.”
“If I only had a kettle and a cat here, she said to herself, I'd be a perfect picture of a useless old lady.”
“If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.”
Source: Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet
“If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.”
“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.”
“If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.”
“If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.”
Source: Forever
“If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.”
“If I only let God do for me what I do for me, I have made God me. And if I have made God me, I don’t have God or me.”
“If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.”
“If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.”
“If I only try to solve the problems I set for myself, then I'm limited by what I can conceive of. I can't solve a problem I can't conceive. But if someone else gives me a visual problem, it can be out of the whole realm of my normal practice.”
“If I only use prayer as my back-up when life goes dark, I’m going to find my back up against a whole lot of dark.”
“If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.”
“If I open my eyes, I just may die, I thought.”
Source: God's Patient Pursuit of My Soul
“If I open my mouth
My word would be of love and hope
Tenderness completing me from inside out”
“If I order an appetizer is there any chance I can get it quickly? I'm two and a half months pregnant with a Bradford," she said, not mentioning it was twins because the thought was actually starting to scare her and she hadn't told Trevor yet and didn't want him finding out this way. She just hoped the woman understood because she was close to crying. Judging by the slightly startled look on the woman's face she did.
The waitress shook her head. "No, you're right. You probably won't be able to survive the wait," she said, sending Trevor, who was still trying to get the woman to leave, a glare. "I'll bring you out a bowl of clam chowder followed by chicken fingers, they'll only take a few minutes to prepare. Will that work?"
Zoe nodded solemnly. "You are my hero."
"I'll put a rush on your food," the waitress said before walking away.
"Bless you," Zoe said, fighting the urge to kiss the woman.”
Source: Perfection
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me. But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed. Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose justice to do this, is to destroy the principles of its existence, which is the thing itself. It is then no longer justice. It is indiscriminate revenge.
This single reflection will show that the doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay; and as this pecuniary idea corresponds again with the system of second redemptions, obtained through the means of money given to the church for pardons, the probability is that the same persons fabricated both the one and the other of those theories; and that, in truth, there is no such thing as redemption; that it is fabulous; and that man stands in the same relative condition with his Maker he ever did stand, since man existed; and that it is his greatest consolation to think so.
Let him believe this, and he will live more consistently and morally, than by any other system. It is by his being taught to contemplate himself as an out-law, as an out-cast, as a beggar, as a mumper, as one thrown as it were on a dunghill, at an immense distance from his Creator, and who must make his approaches by creeping, and cringing to intermediate beings, that he conceives either a contemptuous disregard for everything under the name of religion, or becomes indifferent, or turns what he calls devout. In the latter case, he consumes his life in grief, or the affection of it. His prayers are reproaches. His humility is ingratitude. He calls himself a worm, and the fertile earth a dunghill; and all the blessings of life by the thankless name of vanities. He despises the choicest gift of God to man, the GIFT OF REASON; and having endeavored to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason, as if man could give reason to himself.
Yet, with all this strange appearance of humility, and this contempt for human reason, he ventures into the boldest presumptions. He finds fault with everything. His selfishness is never satisfied; his ingratitude is never at an end. He takes on himself to direct the Almighty what to do, even in the government of the universe. He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine, he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine. He follows the same idea in everything that he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say - thou knowest not so well as I.”
Source: The age of reason
“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.”
“If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here.”
“If I owned a bulldozer, it would be my paintbrush, and the land would be my canvas. My art would be full of streams, creeks, and waterfalls.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.”
“If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to brighten it up. I feel the same way about old golf courses. When you have a masterpiece, I sure wouldn't tinker with it.”
“If I owned a volume, I would beg you to print ten thousand copies on your presses and distribute them in the streets of every city in Europe.”
“You’d have to show me a way to make a profit from it first,” Quincy responded evenly.
“Arch tilted his head and raised an eyebrow, returning to his book as he answered, “I would build an argument so enticing and passionate you couldn’t deny me.”
Source: The Q
“If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.”
“If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn’t imagine belonging to anyone else.”
Source: Entwined with You
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”
“If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.”
“If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.”
“If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.”
“If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.”
“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”
“If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age”
“If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.”
“If I panic, everyone else panics.”
“If I pass a mirror, I turn away,
I do not want to look at her,
and she does not want to be seen.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“If I perceive myself as limited, I do not know the Truth nor my Self.”
Source: Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness
“If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.”