I Quotes
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“If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.”
“If Jamie had been heartless, he would be here right now and not with his wife and children where he belonged.”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“If Jane was a romantic, Margaret was more high-impact-- if she wasn't throwing feasts at the flat, she was at the Ivy down the road. After working as a critic for Gourmet and the Good Food Guide, she opened a restaurant, Lacy's, which closed down after a karmic run of bad reviews. Food writers still haven't learned their lesson on this particular count, and I'd like to clear things up: it is much easier to go from restaurateur to cookbook author then the other way around.
At home, though, Margaret was a great cook. She also had the gift of being a great shopper. She frontloaded the effort so that when she got into the kitchen, she could focus on the basics of the cooking itself. You could say she wrote a template for bougie cooking culture today, where it's about the produce stores you go to, as much as what you do with the ingredients at the end. One of her columns was all about black pepper, mustard and salt. Good pepper steak will have the aromatics of cathedral incense-- a warm anchor note, a resinous edge, harmonic iterations of spice and musk, and a more piquant heat laid over the top. If you're going to cook, you need to consider the geometry of Maldon salt and learn how to deploy French mustard correctly in lapin moutarde. The average British cook at the time was probably using pre-ground pepper and a reflexive pinch of salt.
Nobody did an opening gambit like her. 'No self-respecting sardine would dream of being seen more than twenty miles north of Cherbourg,' she'd write. 'There has been a ridiculous rumor around for some years that puddings are out of fashion and likely to stay so,' she wrote. 'Nothing could be further from the truth. It is simply wishful thinking on the part of housewives and slimmers.”
Source: All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
“If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -”
“If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.”
“If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.”
“If Jarod Kintz was a cat, he'd stalk people silently and deadly. Right now, all he does is bark at them for no good reason, like all the good people do.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.”
“If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.”
“If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.”
“If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.”
“If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.”
“If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.”
“If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn`t have even nominated him.”
“If Jefferson's leadership is to be set apart from others similarly situated later on, it should not be because he was inclined to finesse a frontal assault on the old [Federalist] governmental establishment, but because he transformed national politics so thoroughly without being forced into any make-or-break confrontation with it. Jefferson pursued the reconstruction of American government and politics relentlessly, and the regime he created in the end was profoundly different from the one he displaced. Yet, the most remarkable aspect of his transformation is how little resistance he encountered in the process from the institutions and interests previously attached to the old order. Jefferson's authority to reconstruct proved singularly disarming and all-encompassing.”
Source: The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton
“If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa,” said Will. “Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or took some joy in his death, if it let me have her. And I will not be that person. I will not profit from his death. So he must live.” He lowered his arm, his sleeve bloody. “It is the only way any of this can ever mean anything. Otherwise it is only —”
“Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away,” Magnus said.
“I want more than that,” said Will. “You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn your back on what you created.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.”
“If Jessica [Simpson] looks hot in something, I can definitely tell her that. But for me, out of the entire Simpson family, and out of all the Simpsons on the planet, and all the girls in the universe, the hottest one is the one I married. She could be sitting there in a pair of sweatpants and she beats out any girl in Maxim.”
“If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?”
“If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint Him? If Jesus - see God's already been anointed. If Jesus came as God, then why did God have to anoint Him? Jesus came as a man, that's why it was legal to anoint him. God doesn't need anointing, He is anointing. Jesus came as a man, and at age 30 God is now getting ready to demonstrate to us, and give us an example of what a man, with the anointing, can do.”
“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”
Source: Hannah and Her Sisters
“If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.”
“If Jesus came back today, Republicans would stop him at the border.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert
“If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”
“If Jesus came back today, he wouldn’t cleanse the temple, he’d cleanse the pulpit.”
“If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.”
Source: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings
“If Jesus can live in you and you are no different than the world around you, something got short circuited because Jesus makes a difference.”
“If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?”
“If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.”
“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me then no sacrifice is to great for me to make for Him.”
“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
“If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.”
“If Jesus Christ had run as an independent, Rick Perry would have beat him.”
“If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?”
Source: True patriotism; 1939-45: from the collected works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is only possible in obedience to Him. Conversely, if the church becomes detached from Jesus Christ and His Word, it cannot grow however active and successful it may seem to be.”
Source: Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity
“If Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior, if the Holy Spirit lives in you, then God guarantees your success”
“If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all.”
“If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.”
“If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.”
“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”
“If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.”
“If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.”
“If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science . That will be the science of Christianity.”
“If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.”
“If Jesus ever commanded us to do something that He was unable to equip us to accomplish, He would be a liar. And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If Jesus existed before Mary, then Mary is simply useless. Her acting wasn't good at all.”
“If Jesus experienced all that humankind would suffer, then our own suffering and the suffering of those with whom we stand in solidarity must by necessity also help us come to know and understand him--and by extension, God --better.”
Source: And There Was No Poor Among Them: Liberation, Salvation, and the Meaning of the Restoration
“If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?”
Source: Just Give Me Jesus