I Quotes
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“If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.”
“If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.”
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
Source: Poems
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
Source: The Heart of a Woman
“If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.”
“If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.”
Source: Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam
“If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.”
“If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life.”
“If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.”
“If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
Source: Middlemarch
“If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.”
“If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.”
Source: The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band [and Its Sequel] The Men from the Boys
“If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who does not think like a free person. He places a magical aura around whoever is in charge and only thinks they can wield power. This will come up again in other areas, such as letting government make economic decisions but fearing individual people making those decisions themselves.”
“If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.”
“If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.”
“If one is put into trouble at some place and he makes his ‘adjustment’ then also this worldly life will look beautiful.”
Source: Adjust Everywhere
“If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.”
“If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.”
“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.”
“If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.”
“If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.”
“If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.”
“If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.”
“If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.”
“If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.”
“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.”
“If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.”
“If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.”
“If one is to accept that the universe is expanding at a constant rate, then it follows that it has been doing so since its beginning. Since its beginning, Mr. Gilbert." She stood very still, her head capped neatly by her white hair. "A beginning. Not Adam and Eve, I don't mean that. I mean a moment, some sort of action or event that started it all off. Space and time, matter and energy. A single atom that somehow"- she flexed open the fingers of one hand- "exploded. Good God." Her bright, quick eyes melt his. "We might be on the verge of understanding the very birth of the stars, Mr. Gilbert- the stars."
The only natural light in the room came from the small front window of the house, and it graced the surface of her face, which was a study in wonder. It was beautiful and engaged, and Leonard could see in it the young girl she must once have been.”
Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter
“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
Source: The Sunny Side
“If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.”
“If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!”
Source: Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.”
Source: Existential Psychotherapy
“If one is to use public funds he must accept a responsibility to the public.”
“If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.”
“If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?”
“If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.”
Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More
“If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.”
Source: Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...
“If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.”
“If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world - even if it is about the self, or love, or how human beings relate - I do think that has a certain subversiveness to it. Even if it's not on a geopolitical level.”
“If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives.”
“If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.”
“If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.”
“If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.”
“If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but don’t experience it. If the view were experienced, they wouldn’t act the way they do!”
“If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“If one kiss screwed up our friendship,” he whispered, “what the hell did we just do?”
Source: Sedona Seduction
“If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.”
Source: The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer