I Quotes
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“If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]
“If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.”
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish.”
Source: The Analects
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“If Napoleon can seek to ascend all the thrones of Europe, I suppose we may go dragging them out from under him”
“If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.”
“If NASA was an airline, the FAA would have shut it down.”
“If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you have to patent some new idea. You get to Mars...well, how do we get the water from the soil? I gotta invent a new device that will do that. And the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, how can we use that? Can we breathe the oxygen from the carbon dioxide?”
“If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.”
“If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.”
Source: Works: with a life of the author
“If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.”
“If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.”
“If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.”
“If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses.”
“If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.”
“If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!”
“If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.”
Source: Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc
“If natural philosophy does not teach us the remedies for many diseases, it furnishes us at least with certain means to contract them.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725 - 1798
“If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.”
“If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.”
“If Nature brought you to it. Nature will get you through it.”
Source: EAT! Empower Adjust Triumph!
“If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.”
Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems
“If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.”
“If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.”
“If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.”
Source: The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship
“If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.”
“If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.”
“If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.”
Source: Dream Girl
“If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.”
Source: The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica
“If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.”
Source: Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics
“If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
Source: A Little Princess
“If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable”
“If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.”
“If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.”
“If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.”
“If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.”
“If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms, etc. - to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are "true," that they reveal a genuine feature of nature... You must have felt this too: The almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.”
“If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?”
Source: Fifty Poems
“If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.”
“If nature was your good friend when you were a child, you must then know that it will remain your good friend till the end of your life!”
“If nature was your good friend when you were a child, you must then know that you it will remain your good friend till the end of your life!”
“If Nature were kind, She would at least make the minor concession of anesthetizing caterpillars before they were eaten alive from within. But Nature is neither kind nor unkind. She is neither against suffering nor for it. Nature is not interested in suffering one way or the other unless it affects the survival of DNA. It is easy to imagine a gene that, say, tranquilizes gazelles when they are about to suffer a killing bite. Would such a gene be favored by natural selection? Not unless the act of tranquilizing a gazelle improved that gene’s chances of being propagated into future generations. It is hard to see why this should be so, and we may therefore guess that gazelles suffer horrible pain and fear when they are pursued to the death– as many of them eventually are.”
Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
“If nature would ever demand payments towards patent rights, we will all be bankrupt.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“If necessary for years, if necessary alone.”
“If necessary, he would probably kill for Jameson Kane.
If asked, he would probably die for Tatum O'Shea.”
Source: Separation
“If necessary, I cry. I pray. I rest. I'm fortunate to have quite a few strong, independent, loving, and unbiased women in my life that I can talk things through with.”