I Quotes
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“If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.”
“If I really feel that I want to shoot live people and live backgrounds, then that movie will become live-action. If I don't have any particular actors I want to use, I'd probably consider animation for that project. Which medium I use doesn't really make that much difference to me.”
“If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.”
“If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.”
“If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.”
“If I really think about what drove me from the beginning to become a designer, it is really the idea of trying to make everyday life a little bit better - to make it more functional, more desirable, to improve quality of life somehow.”
“If I really think that I’m the greatest thing since sliced bread, it’s probably because I’ve never eaten the sandwich.”
“If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.”
“If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.”
“If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.”
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.”
“If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.”
Source: Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
“If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a foreign language by seven-years-old. We shouldn't be waiting until high school when they are neurologically not ready to learn it. Second, we emphasize reading too young.”
“If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.”
“If I refused to let the streckwolves have the humans, knowing they were more likely to succeed than I, then I was no better than a Greatwolf. And if I had to choose between being like Milsindra or like the little not-wolves, I would rather be a streckwolf.”
Source: Spirit of the Wolves
“If I reject love, it’s typically because I do not understand it sufficiently to see it even when it stands right in front of me. And if through some miracle I do see it, I don’t value myself sufficiently to embrace it even when that self-same love sets the immensity of my value right in front of me. And what I cannot afford to forget is that God’s love is never intimidated by either of these.”
“If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.”
“If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.”
Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays
“If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.”
“If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.”
“If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?”
“If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code”
“If I remember correctly, the most efficient campaign in modern times, in terms of burn rate, had been Obama's 2012 reelect, which I believe the number was they spent 37 cents at every dollar.”
“If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.”
“If I remember, Russia, 20 or 30 years ago, you'd get shot trying to leave. Today, Russian tourists are all over the world. You have Russian oligarchs with big yachts all over the world.”
“If I remembered when people said mean things about me, I would never speak to the media again.”
“If I remove your eyes or make you in such way that to don't see... in reality you don't see the evil... you don't see me... so do whatever I don't give a fuck... that's wonderful... I like to play games... so run!... and welcome home!?”
“If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.”
“If I repent now will God forgive me?
No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.”
“If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.”
“If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”
“If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.”
“If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child”
“If I resign any time this year, he [President Obama] could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. ... [A]nybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they're misguided.”
“If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.”
“If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.”
“If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.”
“If I Returned From The Land of Death by Stewart Stafford
If I returned from the land of Death,
Could I recall its vast domain?
To regale with tales of my last breath,
Or bury all such earthly pain?
Do infinite spirits teem astral skies,
Whispering, "Infant, be not afraid!"?
Ocean glare that blinds not the eyes,
Heartfelt welcomes can but persuade.
To see those I lost once more,
As smiles and greetings abound?
Why would I wade a waning shore,
To reject formless bliss so sound?
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.”
Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS
“If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.”
“If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.”
“If I ride the winds of my imagination out to the furthest periphery of my soul their gusts will eventually die and my journey will draw to a halt at some abbreviated horizon. For there is only one wind who gusts who bow to no horizon and who’s course is set to sweep the landscape of the eternal. And that wind is born of a God Who invites us to be swept up into the breeze that leaves every horizon in its wake and eternity riding at its feet.”
“If I right now decided that I wanted to play Monopoly with you, and for 400 rounds of playing Monopoly, I didn’t allow you to have any money, I didn’t allow you to have anything on the board, I didn’t allow for you to have anything, and then we played another 50 rounds of Monopoly and everything that you gained and you earned while you were playing that round of Monopoly was taken from you, that was Tulsa. That was Rosewood. Those are places where we built black economic wealth, where we were self-sufficient, where we owned our stores, where we owned our property, and they burned them to the ground.”
“If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?”
Source: Archomai
“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.”
“If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.”
“If I ruled the world Imagine that...”
“If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.”