I Quotes
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“If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.”
Source: Selections from Carlyle
“If I say the truth in most cases you will get angry in the others you will just change the topic like nothing has ever happen.”
“If I say ‘there is no God’, I disrespect your belief; how when you say ‘there is a God’ you do not disrespect mine?”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.”
“If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.”
“If I say to some kids roughhousing in church, "Don't kill anyone," they know what concern I am addressing. They know I'm exaggerating for emphasis and not speaking in general terms—that I'm not, for example, commenting on the morality of military service. Stripped of the rich context we share, the mere words, "Don't kill anyone" could easily be understood to mean don't kill anyone, anytime, ever.”
Source: A Letter to My Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor's Path to Embracing People Who Are Gay, Lesbian and Transgender in the Company of Jesus
“If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!”
“If I say to you I don't have an open marriage...and you don't trust that, well, there's nothing that I really have to say to anybody about anything because at the end of the day, I'm living my life and I'm happy.”
“If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created."- Prince Ikan”
Source: Broken Cloud: the first sunrise
“If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.”
“If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
“If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.”
Source: How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
“If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“If I say, 'Hey, I'm Psy.' 'Psy?' 'The guy from the video on YouTube?' 'Oh.' I hate that. I've got to be more popular than the video. So I need to keep promoting myself.”
“If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.”
“If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.”
“If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.”
“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too ‘poor’ to be able to ‘pour’ back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.”
“If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.”
“If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.”
“If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.”
“If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I still get the pleasure of yelling at her.”
“If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of.”
“If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.”
“If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.”
“If I see a cool chick in the street, I'll watch her going by, won't I?”
“If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.”
“If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.”
“If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.”
“If I see a girl with big tits, I'm going to stare and stare. And I'm going to think in my mind what I am going to do with her if I would have her.”
“If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.”
“If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.”
“If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.”
“If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.”
“If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.”
“If I see a nice photography book in New York, and I don't want to have to carry that back to Japan with me, I just order it from Amazon when I come home. There's no treasure-hunting anymore. It used to be like a hunt to find Air Jordans, Max 95s, and carrying them back.”
“If I see a problem (in the clubhouse), I say something right away. I don't wait two or
three days.”
“If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?”
“If I see an ending, I can work backward.”
“If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.”
“If I see and think and swim the reflection, it is because at the other extreme there is the sun that casts its rays. Only the origin of what is matters: something that my gaze cannot face except in an attenuated form, as in this sunset. All the rest is reflection among reflections, me included.”
Source: Mr Palomar
“If I see another David Gold interview on the poor East End Jewish boy done good I'll impale myself on one of his dildos.”
“If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.”
“If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.”
“If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!”
“If I see any sort of injustice, I can fight like a dog. I'm not frightened to be outspoken and I can get very angry. I think expressing anger is not something that's considered very feminine... or British! If I saw someone slandered in the press... libel is something I really loathe. So, I probably would speak out about that, whether it was about myself or someone else.”
“If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.”
“If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.”
“If I see darkness in men of God I bring light to them.”