I Quotes
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“If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable. Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.”
“If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.”
“If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.”
Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer
“If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution”
“If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.”
“If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs?" the conflict would be easy to resolve.”
“If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.”
“If people just sit back and watch while things get bad in a country, that country will go from bad to worse!”
“If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.”
“If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.”
“If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.”
“If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.”
“If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.”
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
“If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.”
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”
“If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.”
“If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.”
“If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
“If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.”
“If people knew the kind things my mom has done for the community and for families over the years, I think that they would be stunned.”
“If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.”
“If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.”
Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
“If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?”
Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
“If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.”
“If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.”
“If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!”
“If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.”
Source: What Happened to Lani Garver
“If people know everything about you, and if that doesn't bother you, you're more wise than anyone else.”
“If people know the vaccines which are available, and understand their benefits and risks, they will come of their own volition and take the vaccines themselves or request them for their children. There should be no compulsion by the state to force vaccinations of any kind. If these vaccines are worthy of merit and consideration, and the people are given enough information concerning their risks and benefits, then the people will seek them out of their own accord and be able to decide whether or not the vaccinations are right for themselves and their families...
...The people of the United States are intelligent people. Provide the information and allow them to decide. Vaccination should always be a choice, and never a mandate.”
Source: Louis Pasteur Condemns Big Pharma: Vaccines, Drugs, and Healthcare in the United States
“If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.”
Source: Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel
“If people lack the ability to profit, they will also lack all of the things that profits afford.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.”
“If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.”
“If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.”
Source: The Search
“If people let you down.Improve.You don't have to change for their entertainment.”
“If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.”
“If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.”
Source: Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes
“If people like us, our life is good. If somebody doesn't like us, our whole life is tanked. That happens at your job, especially in church ministry. It seems like everybody's your boss sometimes. You're trying to keep everybody happy and pretty soon you realize you're filling yourself up with other people's opinions of you. That's a dangerous place to live.”
“If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.”
“If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.”
“If people like you,
you're worth much to them.
If people desire you,
you're worth more to them.
If people need you,
you're worth everything to them.
Make people like you, and they will go ten extra miles for you.
Make them admire you, and they will go a hundred extra miles for you.
Make them love you, and they will go a thousand extra miles for you.
Make them adore you, and they will even go a million extra miles for you.”
“If people like you,
you're worth much to them.
If people desire you,
you're worth more to them.
If people need you,
you're worth everything to them.
Make people like you,
and they will go ten extra steps for you.
Make them admire you,
and they will go a hundred steps for you.
Make them love you,
and they will go a thousand extra steps for you.
Make them adore you,
and they will go a million extra steps for you.”
“If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your praises and applaud your artistry.”
“If people like you, they'll give you a hand. But if they trust you, they'll give you their heart. And heart to heart, we can face anything together.”
“If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.”
“If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.”
“If people listen to music and dance every day, they find happiness and sacred solutions to any problem.”
“If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?”