I Quotes
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“If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?”
“If it is true that an inability to deal with the future is a sign of mental disturbance, I don't know anyone who is not now disturbed; who has not been disturbed for some time.”
Source: The Vulnerables
“If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing today as it seldom has flourished in the past. For biologists collectively are less agreed upon the details of evolutionary mechanics than they were a scant decade ago. Superficially, it seems as if we know less about evolution than we did in 1959, the centennial year of Darwin's on the Origin of Species.”
Source: Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria
“If it is true that, as Umberto Eco put it, social media gives a voice to legions of idiots, I’m afraid A.I. will further worsen the situation – we’ll have plenty of idiots to the nth degree who think they are geniuses.”
“If it is true that by death we once more become what we were before being, would it not have been better to abide by that pure possibility, not to stir from it? What use was this detour, when we might have remained forever in an unrealized plenitude?”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.”
“If it is true that education is the main foundation of any society, it follows that the state of race in today’s America mirrors its education system.”
“If it is true that education is the main foundation of any society, it follows that the state of race in today’s America mirrors its education system. Therefore, America’s education needs serious examination and even remaking. It is a system that uses Blacks (and other marginalized people) as mere tokens. You see a meager quota of Black people (as employees or students) here and there to give the false impression of equity.”
“If it is true that if you believe in something, you manifest it, there are many Jesus Christs in the universe, because there are many different cultural interpretations of Jesus.”
“If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.”
“If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”
Source: The Art of Travel
“If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?”
“If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.”
“If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.”
Source: A Game of Ghosts
“If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.”
Source: This Business of Living
“If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.”
“If it is true that strength is the child of effort and pain, then most of us will have the opportunity to learn strength. . . . Effort is standing up to the storm. Pain comes from enduring the worst the storm can throw at us. But then so does strength.”
“If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.”
Source: Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning
“If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.”
Source: The periodic table
“If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.”
“If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.”
“If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.”
“If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.”
Source: The Meaning of Life
“If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.”
“If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.”
“If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.”
“If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.”
Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses
“If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.”
“If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.”
“If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.”
“If it is what it is learn from it.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“If it is what it is, then, it's good enough.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.”
“If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.”
“If it is worth a dream, it's not worth a compromise!”
“If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.”
“If it is worth having and keeping, then it is worth fighting, living, and even dying for it”
“If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.”
“If it is worth the pain. If it is worth the anguish. Then leave me lying in agony.”
“If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.”
“If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.”
“If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.”
Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals
“If it is your assignment to write copy for a product or service that you really don’t have a feel for, then you have a great deal of studying to do to make sure you understand who your customer is and what motivates him or her.”
Source: The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters
“If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then
go ahead! And with all your might! Make them
hear you!”
“If it is your fault that your mother is miserable, it becomes a potentially fixable affront. Taking blame means that at least the hope of love is still there-all you have to do is deserve it.”
Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
“If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails
for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it
the thorn
that is heavier than lead—
if it's all you can do
to keep on trudging—
there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted—
each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,
whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.”
Source: Dream Work
“If it is your right to spread your Religions, I have every right to expose your vulture religions.
F**K RELIGIONS!”
“If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.”
“If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.”