I Quotes
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“If Milo [Yiannopoulos] were a liberal, he could say whatever and then some, and he wouldn't be addressing Conservative Political Action Conference, he would be emceeing the Oscars.”
“If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.”
“If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force.”
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.”
“If miracles are no more, it is because faith is no more. Faith brings about miracles, not the other way around.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“If miracles are to be common, everyday occurances, normal and not extraordinary, they cease to attract attention, and lose their very reason of existence. What is normal is according to law. If miracles are the law of the Christian life they cease to serve their chief end.
The contention of the faith-healers overlooks numerous important Biblical facts. Primarily the fact that the miraculous gifts in the New Testament were the credentials of the apostles, and were confirmed to those to whom the apostles had conveyed them--whence a presumption arises against their continuance after the apostolic age. ... Paul did not share the views of our modern faith-healers.”
Source: Counterfeit miracles
“If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.”
Source: The Witness of History to Christ: Five Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge : Being the Hulsean Lectures for the Year 1870
“If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.”
“If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
“If misery results within you, it is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts one’s own self) and when someone suffers from painful result because of you, it is raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others). Giving happiness to someone is dharmadhyan. It is dharmadhyan when one is satisfied despite having less worldly comforts.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.”
Source: House of All Nations
“If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely.”
Source: Distant Thunder
“If misfortune come against us we must fight with her; we must cast her aside, and still go on to find out that which it is our nature to desire.”
“If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.”
Source: The Dressmaker's Secret
“If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.”
“If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures--now that would have gotten his attention.”
Source: Heaven
“If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.”
“If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case.”
“If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.”
“If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.”
Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
“If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.”
“If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.”
“If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.”
“If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.”
“If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.”
“If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.”
“If models are made for modeling, thick girls are made for cuddling.”
“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
“If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.”
“If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.”
“If modern dervishes are no more than
"traditional hippies," still I feel that the world has a secret but absolute need for the presence of such wild free spirits, just as it needs the presence of some wilderness, unplanned, unmanaged, apparently profitless, chaotic as God first made it. (And both of these needs seem to fall under the patronage of the master traveler, Khezr himself).”
Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
“If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.”
Source: Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography
“If modern environmentalism continue on the current path of wilding the city, future urban dwellers might as well live in tree houses, for all the difference it will make.”
Source: Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
“If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.”
“If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.”
“If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.”
Source: The cry (1754)
“If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.”
“If Molly Brown was a real woman writer, she would probably be dismissed as mad and unnecessarily pathologized. We glorify our male literary hysterics who often channel women and condemn our female literary hysterics. They can play women, fetishize her excesses. Make fun of her frivolity. They don't have to be women. A colonizing or appropriating of the feminine.”
Source: Heroines
“If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might have
thought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought into
every-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake, it was
rather the glitter of the pieces of a broken mirror, which confuses
and bewilders.”
“If Molly were here, she'd tell Sabrina how this was the perfect end to her love story. The villain had been defeated, the couple was together, and there was a party with fancy clothes and good food and plenty of music. But happily ever afters in real life were very different from the movies. The pain and loss and difficulties didn't disappear. With every joy came the reminder that someone wasn't there to share the moment. Real happily ever afters were flavored with bitter and sweet. With Ray by her side, Sabrina wanted to taste it all.”
Source: The Kindred Spirits Supper Club
“If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she should
take them.
Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in the air, the sight is not as pathetic as seeing her seven-year old daughter grimly going through such motions just to please her mother, when she would prefer to be at home designing new doll clothes.
Although some parents are never quite ready to accept this fact, the child is not one of our possessions. We don’t own him; we never will. We gave birth to his body; he may share some of our physical characteristics; but he does not inherit our desires.
He’s a different person, a separate entity, with his own likes and dislikes.
It’s a grave mistake to try to override a child’s power of choice in what he wants to be and do. Some parents do this in an attempt to live their lives through the child.”
“If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.”
Source: Getting the Buddha Mind: On the Practice of Chan Retreat
“If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.”
“If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.”
“If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.”
“If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.”
“If money can help treat and cure the sick and the poor, then why is it considered evil in the first place? Isn't poverty the biggest disease of every generation?”
“If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.”