I Quotes
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“If loving you is wrong, I guess I’ll always be wrong.”
“If loving you is wrong, then I'll just like you a whole bunch!”
“If loving you means I'm gay, then I'm gay, too."
- Cake”
Source: My Only 12%
“If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.”
Source: Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue
“if loyalty undermines professionalism, integrity will suffer the most”
“If luck doesn’t come to you you need to go find it!”
“If luck favors me, then it is luck. If I favor myself, then it is good luck”
Source: WHO AM I: Author Hari Krishnan Nair
“If luck has not yet knocked your gate, change the gate”
“If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!”
“If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.”
“If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.”
“If Ludwig Van Beethoven could create the longest symphony without hearing a tune of it, then something can come from nothingness. When we lose our ears, we don’t have to die with all the symphonies left in us. There is a heart that can still play us a beautiful rhythm. Every heartbeat is a beginning of a new symphony.”
“If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?”
“If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.”
“If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.”
“If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain.”
“If Madame Rapacine had taught her anything, it was that if you wanted to capture a time, a place, a feeling, you needed to make it into a perfume. Iris understood, Rapacine hadn't destroyed the home she loved--- she had bottled it.
But for those few passersby who resist the dissociation the city begs of its residents, those who are more in touch with their bodies, or sensitive to whimsy, or at the very least not in a terrible rush, they had a surreal experience. A Pilates instructor and former principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey company walked by and smelled the water and was reminded of the glamorous patrons at her first professional dance gig, opening a new club called Studio 54. A Japanese chef on holiday passed by and thought it smelled like the yuzu and rosewater cake he once baked for his sister's wedding. And a small child simply thought it smelled like her mother when she was going out for the evening. The perfume that poured from the brownstone could evoke a different memory for every person in New York. But all of them were beautiful.”
Source: Full Bloom
“If Madiba has taught our nation anything, it is that humility is a superpower.”
Source: Cape of Storms
“If magic does not have friends in Yorkshire where may we find them?”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”
“If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
“If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity!
People like Mr Bubentsov do not understand anything about art and are not very interested in it, but whenever they happen to come across talentless mediocrities they are pitiless and implacable, They are ready to forgive anyone, but not Makar, that eccentric loser with manuscripts lying in his trunk. The gardener damaged the old rubber plant, and ruined lots of expensive plants, and the general does nothing and goes on spending money like water; Mr Bubentsov only got down to work once a month when he was a magistrate, then stammered, muddled up the laws, and spoke a lot of rubbish, but all this is forgiven and not noticed; but there is no way that anyone can pass by the talentless Makar, who writes passable poetry and stories, without saying something offensive. No one cares that the general's sister-in-law slaps the maids' cheeks, and swears like a trooper when she is playing cards, that the priest's wife never pays up when she loses, and the landowner Flyugin stole a a dog from the landower Sivobrazov, but the fact that Our Province returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka.
If someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say:
'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!”
Source: The Exclamation Mark
“If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?”
“If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.”
Source: The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”
“If Mama had lived, ... I hope she would have supported and approved of her daughter’s ambitions to accomplish something in this life. She taught me to read when I was five years old. If she knew what I was doing now, if she knew that I had been accepted at the university—the university , Papa—don’t you think she would have been just a little bit proud?”
Source: A Lady in Shadows
“If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.”
Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization
“If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.”
Source: Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
“If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.”
“If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!”
“If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.”
“If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.”
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
“If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?”
“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
“If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish”
Source: The List of 7
“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would grow to become a brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future”
“If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.”
“If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.”
“If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr.) his self-control.”
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
“If man doesn't dream, he has nothing."
"A man whose dreams will never come true still has nothing.”
Source: Motion To Kill
“If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.”
“If man draws all his knowledge, sensation, etc., from the world of the senses and the experience gained in it, then what has to be done is to arrange the empirical world in such a way that man experiences and becomes accustomed to what is truly human in it and that he becomes aware of himself as man. If correctly understood, interest is the principle of all morality, man’s private interest must be made to coincide with the interest of humanity. If man is unfree in the materialistic sense, i.e., is free not through the negative power to avoid this or that, but through the positive power to assert his true individuality, crime must not be punished in the individual, but the anti-social sources of crime must be destroyed, and each man must be given social scope for the vital manifestation of his being. If man is shaped by environment, his environment must be made human. If man is social by nature, he will develop his true nature only in society, and the power of his nature must be measured not by the power of the separate individual but by the power of society.”
Source: The holy family
“If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.”
“If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?”
“If man evolved spontaneously from nothingness to flesh then man must be immortal. Why? Well, man in his development from nothingness to substance did not exist in a controlled environment and so lay prone to countless assaults from elements of his coarse environment. To preserve his viability, he had to ride materially unscathed through all those assaults. So it is reasonable to expect that man must be immune to destruction by all malevolent forces whose vicious tackles he stumbled through in the course of his development from cell to flesh. For how can he in the stoutness of maturity be susceptible to destruction by blows that he absorbed without peril in his infancy?”
“If man gives you respect & love it means ,he loves you .”
“If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.”
“If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend