I Quotes
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“If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”
“If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.”
“If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.”
Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.”
“If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other's devils.”
Source: Lectures on Shakespeare
“If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.”
“If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.”
“If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.”
Source: The Invention of Solitude
“If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!”
“If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.”
“If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.”
“If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.”
“If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.”
“If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.”
Source: Diary, 1928-1957
“If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!”
Source: Vanity Fair
“If people only read but don't write or vice versa, human evolution will slow down.”
Source: Quantraz
“If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.”
“If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.”
“If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.”
“If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?”
“If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.”
Source: The Great Deceiver
“If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever." - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae”
“If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.”
“If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.”
“If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.”
“If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.”
“If people really want to find you, they find you.”
“If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“If people recognize me from The Vampire Diaries, they just give me that look that's like, "I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I'm not sure," because it was such a short-lived run.”
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.”
“If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door.”
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”
“If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.”
“If people say harsh words to me though, I don't care. It's a risk to my life. The Taliban don't want us to be working, so they'll shoot us. And women who break their rules, they put acid on them. I said, if they shoot me, OK, but if they put acid on me, I will be alive as a dead body. I was always so afraid of that.”
“If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it.”
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.”
“If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.”
“If people say the world we perceive is a 'construct' of our brains, they are saying in effect, that it results from an inveterate habit of thought. Why does it never occur to them that a habit is something you can overcome, if you set about it with enough energy?”
“If people say you shouldn't pursue business around your passion they are haters. Don't believe them.”
“If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.”
“If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!”
“If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not "The Naked Guy." I don't care.”
“If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.”
“If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.”
“If people should desire purity, then they would delight in praying.”
“If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.”
“If people show you who they are, believe them.”