I Quotes
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“If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.”
“If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them is conclusive upon the other departments, it may be answered, that this cannot be the natural presumption, where it is not be collected from any particular provisions in the Constitution.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“If it be sin to love a lovely lad
Oh there sin I.”
“If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions
“If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.”
“If it be the chief point of friendship to
comply with a friends motions and inclinations,
he possesses this in a eminent degree;
he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk,
which is more than many good friends
can pretend to do.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin
“If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that a free country!”
“If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.”
“If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.”
“If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.”
Source: The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism
“If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.”
“If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.”
Source: The Rise of David Levinsky
“If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.”
Source: The Life Divine: Art of living
“If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.”
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.”
Source: The menace of Darwinism
“If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.”
“If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?”
“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.”
“If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women's weapons, water drops,
Stain my man's cheeks.”
Source: King Lear
“IF IT BECOMES DIFFICULT TO FIND SOMEONE BETTER THAN ME
THEN DEFINITELY THE WORLD HAS BECOME A BAD PLACE
मुझसे अच्छा इंसान मिलना मुश्किल हो जाए
तो समझ लीजे दुनियां बहुत बुरी हो गई है”
“If it bores the life out of you, it's not your life.”
Source: Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
“If it bothers me on the page, I don't do it. If it attracts me on the page and moves me, makes me think a bit, makes me laugh, makes me cry, I'm interested in it. If it's there on the page, it means it's there and up to me to bring it out. I have done some films along the way that have been screwed up and not as good as they read. Some films that are not that good on the page turn into good movies. So I'm fallible is what I'm saying.”
“If it brings annoy instead of Joy; Why squander my precious thought and energy on it?”
“If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion”
“If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people's music, which I've done for years. But still, it'd be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.”
“If it came down to that, I'd protect you in a heartbeat.”
Source: The Last Song
“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
“If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.”
“If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.”
“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
“If it can be done digitally, do it.”
“If it can be dreamed, it can be done.”
“If it can be said that serial killers, through the control they exert and the terror they spread, make victims of the entire communities—families and loved ones, the police who track them, and the general public who must live in fear—then in his own way, Dave was
a victim of the Green River killer, just as I became one of Ted Bundy’s victims.”
Source: The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
“If it can be said that the grandchildren "soon get used" to something that would have made the grandfathers fight duels to the death, it is always assumed that the grandchildren have found a new mode of living, whereas those who fought the duel to the death were already dead. But the psychological fact is exactly the other way. The duellists may have been fastidious or even fantastic, but they were frightfully alive.”
Source: Selected essays
“If it can be solved, there's no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use.”
“If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.”
“If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
“If it can bleed, we can kill it.”
“If it can't be … reused, repaired … then it should be … redesigned or removed from production.”
“If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“If it cannot hatch from its shell, the chick will die without ever truly being born. We are the chick; the world is our egg. If we don't break the world's shell, we will die without truly being born. Smash the world's shell, for the Revolution of the World.”
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”
“If it Captures Your Imagination, it will captivate others.”
Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“If it causes you to sin your soul-just walk away”
“If it chance your eye offends you,
Pluck it out lad, and be sound:
'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you,
And many a balsam grows on ground.
And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your sickness is your soul.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.”
Source: Areopagitica and Other Prose Works