I Quotes
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“If I see darkness in my nation, I bring light to her.”
“If I see darkness in politics I bring light to it.”
“If I see darkness in the area of finances I bring light there.”
“If I see darkness in the Church I bring light to it.”
“If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?”
“If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.”
“If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.”
“If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth”
“If I see my fans crying, I just want to give them a hug and tell them I love them.”
“If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.”
“If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.”
“If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.”
“If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.”
“If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I see it’s living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it’s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.”
Source: A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
“If I see someone I'm in awe of I'm like, 'Oh my God. Oh. My. God.' But on the outside I'm very calm. I'd never run up and hassle anyone.”
“If I see someone not laughing, the first thing I'm thinking is, "OK, am I cursing too much? Am I doing a joke he doesn't understand? Is he resting?" Then he starts becoming my focal point. Once I see him laugh, I'm like, [snap] "All right, now I'm funny."”
“If I see someone wearing Hilfiger it makes me proud, but then I wonder what I could do to make the style more relevant for them next year?”
“If I see something I don't like about a friend, I don't stick with that friend because I don't need them.”
“If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!”
“If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.”
“If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.”
“If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right. If they are on the opinion of the right thing, that's what I will talk about. I won't proselytize or make the strong things to influence other people about any particular politics, except the decency of things, the logic of things. That's why I don't get that much involved in politics directly.”
“If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.”
“If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.”
“If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.”
Source: GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
“If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.”
“If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.”
“If I seem to not want to be with him now, it’s only because love scares me too, more than manipulation, because love is a choice I make and not something forced upon me. I trust him, but I don’t trust myself. I must have time to trust myself so I can completely love him.
He’s the grenade. I’m the grenade. We’ll blow each other to pieces…
Together.”
Source: The Vestige
“If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion
“If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way”
“If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life.”
Source: Ulrich von Hutten and the German Reformation
“If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping??”
Source: One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count
“If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.”
“If I Separated Myself
From You . . . I Would Turn
Entirely Thorn!”
Source: Selected poems
“If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.”
“If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.”
“If I set my stones, my mum would be an opal, all swirly colours and clashy statements. I would put her at the north point of my stone compass and be grateful to her for my brains, and the fact that I stand up for myself. I'd be grateful to her for the ease with which I laugh, although I wish she'd rein in her own guffaws sometimes because really, who needs to be that loud? I was grateful that she didn't hover over me like some parents who couldn't seem to let their (nearly adult) children out of their sight without keeping constant telephone contact. He'll, I was even grateful that she had strict house rules that were a pain in the arse, because we both knew it would be much easier if she said yes, but she did no because she really believed no was the right answer.”
Source: The Reluctant Hallelujah
“If I set out to prove something I am no real scientist-- I have to learn to follow where the facts lead me-- I have to learn to whip my prejudices...”
“If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.”
Source: The Winter's Tale: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition
“If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.”
“If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.”
“If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?”
Source: Tempted
“If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.”
Source: The High Sierra of California
“If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.”
“If I should be so foolish as to hold ethics as the ignorance of a generation long passed, my life will pass in the ignorance of a generation that handed me what was genius.”
“If I should capture the most beautiful sunrise, only then, will I stop capturing them.”
“If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.”