I Quotes
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“If it’s true that people just have a natural tendency to follow suggestions or follow orders, whether they really should or really need to or not, let’s give them some good better directions to follow.”
Source: sciVive
“If it's true there's a beginning to the universe, as modern cosmologists now agree, then this implies a cause that transcends the universe. If the laws of physics are fine-tuned to permit life, as contemporary physicists are discovering, then perhaps there's a designer who fine-tuned them. If there's information in the cell, as molecular biology shows, then this suggests intelligent design. To get life going in the first place would have required biological information; the implications point beyond the material realm to a prior intelligent cause. -Stephen C Meyer, PHD”
Source: The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
“if it’s within your power to give another person great joy at little or no expense to yourself— or even at great expense— then you should, especially when you love that person.”
“If it's yours, my friend, you cannot hold it back.”
Source: Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
“If it saves lives, a dishonourable defeat in war is an honourable act! Where people die, there is no honour, no victory, no winning! A war is not fought to save the future of future generations, because every generation is valuable, every generation has the right to live! Any action aimed at further shortening the already limited lifespan of humankind is despicable!”
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
Source: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
“If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.”
“If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.”
Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.”
“If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.”
“If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.”
“If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.”
“If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”
“If it seems ordinary, it is not a big dream. It is okay for your dream to be gigantic. You have to comprehend this: you are not irrational when you dream big, you are realistic.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“if it seems too good to be true, it probably isnt true”
“If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.”
“If it sells, it's art.”
“If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift.”
“If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.”
“If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.”
“If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.”
“If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.”
“If it shouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen.”
“If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.”
“If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.”
Source: Seeds
“If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!”
“If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.”
“If it sounds good to me and I hate my voice, so if I'm willing to listen to my voice over and over again, it's a hit. Guaranteed it'll be a hit.”
“If it sounds like a sheep but looks like a lion, it's probably a lion.”
Source: Kings of the Wyld
“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
Source: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
“If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.”
“If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.”
“If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.”
“If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.”
“If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up.”
“If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.”
“If it stays, then it is love. If it ends, it's a love story.”
“If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.”
“If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution without posting obvious road signs to reveal his role in creation?”
“If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.”
“If it takes $300bn to end world hunger,
and 7 trillion to fund the next AI wonder,
how many people have to starve to death,
to feed the appetite of the cyberworld?”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.”
“If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.”
“If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”
“If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it certainly takes a movement to undo an occupation.”
Source: Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a bloody army to battle cancer.”
Source: Unafraid: A survivor's quest for human connection
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.”
“If it takes just one election to reverse hundreds of years of social progress, then that society never progressed in the first place.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper