I Quotes
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“If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.”
“If marriages are said to be made in heaven then why search for grooms in hell.”
“If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.”
“If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.”
“If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.”
“If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.”
“If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.”
“If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.”
“If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.”
“If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.”
“If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.”
“If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.”
Source: Science And Health
“If materialistic world is noise, spirituality or religion is music. Most people just keep shuttling between noise and music. To discover the eternal silence, you have to realize that the music is just refined noise.”
“If Math was a woman, we'd be married already.”
“If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!”
“If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?”
Source: The Credo of the Commoner
“If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.”
“If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.”
“If McDonald’s was a fine dining establishment, the chain would have failed years ago because customer surveys routinely return less than fifty percent satisfaction with both the food and service. Ubiquity and familiarity are the chain’s secret sauces. McDonalds survives by operating in thousands of convenient locations. This was once the strategy for the clothing retailer, The Gap and remains important to Starbucks. McDonalds is a real estate company first and a food business second.”
Source: TV DINNERS UNBOXED: The Hot History of Frozen Meals
“If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don't think there's anything in between.”
“If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.”
“If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.”
“If me and my girlfriend were fighting, and it got to the point where she started crying, I would just shut up and hold her.”
“If me talking was pouring a beverage for him to drink of some kind, any kind, even the most tasteless, bland kind, he would have been slurping and gulping down every bit of it. Devouring each and every word, each and every phase I said. He was thirsty for it. He wanted more.”
Source: Counting Stars
“If meaning lies even partially in usage, then you subtly alter the language every time you use it. You couldn't leave it intact if you tried.”
Source: The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
“If means create ends, no really free society is possible without the constant building up of habits of freer relationships, of increased individual liberty, and of larger independence for all social groups.”
“If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.”
“If measuring by this earthly realm's time then it's been years but in the unseen realm above known as Vehaven, it has been but a moment.”
Source: Magnificence
“If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.”
“If mediocrity is your benchmark, you always sit on the bench!”
“If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.”
“If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside - contentment.”
“If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.”
Source: The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians
“If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.”
Source: Rage
“If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.”
“If memorable settings do not ring any bells anymore in the twisting lobes of our memory or do not raise a single tingling in our emotions, let us, then, rethink things over to re-invent ourselves and find out what killed the vital air of our recollection. ("Just for a moment" )”
“If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.”
“If memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck.”
“If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis. We were laughing within a minute of meeting - always a good sign.”
“If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.”
Source: One After Another
“If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means.”
“If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.”
“If men and women began to live their ephemeral dreams, every phantom would become a person with whom to begin a story of pursuits, pretenses, misunderstandings, clashes, oppressions, and the carousel of fantasies would stop”
Source: Invisible Cities
“If men and women need freedom and mobility, they also need a sense of tradition and belonging. There is nothing retrograde about roots. The postmodern cult of the migrant, which sometimes succeeds in making migrants sound even more enviable than rock stars, is a good deal too supercilious in this respect. It is a hangover from the modernist cult of the exile, the Satanic artist who scorns the suburban masses and plucks an elitist virtue out of his enforced dispossession. The problem at the moment is that the rich have mobility while the poor have locality. Or rather, the poor have locality until the rich get their hands on it. The rich are global and the poor are local - though just as poverty is a global fact, so the rich are coming to appreciate the benefits of locality.”
Source: After Theory
“If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?”
Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
“If men and women were equal, everybody would have the same values.Because at this point in time, many women feel compelled to care for the children, feel empathetically into another person's reality, more so than many men who often are on more of a straight-shooting path towards achievement come what may.”
“If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.”
Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot