I Quotes
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“If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.”
“If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.”
“If personal identity resides in the telling, then so does social identity. Families, nations, religions (but also corporations, universities, departments of sociology) know who they are by the stories they tell. The modern discipline of history is closely related to the emergence of the nation-state.”
Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
“If personal safety means discrimination, then I'm all for it.”
“If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as is he were related to one thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament" - it was an extraordinary gift of hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.”
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”
“If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.”
“If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.”
“If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.”
“If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.”
“If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.”
“If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.”
“If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.”
“If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.”
“If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.”
Source: Essays on Music
“If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.”
“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.”
“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
“If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.”
Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions
“If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.”
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”
“If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would be more perfect, impure matter would be thrown off, and new life and vigor would be experienced in every part of the body.”
Source: Healthful Living
“If physical objects please you, praise God for them, but turn back your love to their Creator, lest, in those things which please you, you displease Him.
If souls please you, let them be loved in God; for in themselves they are mutable, but in Him firmly established — without Him they would simply cease to exist.
Book 4: Chapter 12”
Source: Confessions
“If physical training isn't shameful, then why should mental training be!?!”
Source: Motion Of Being
“If physically ill
Transform your body with mind's will
If mentally ill
breathe, circulate & move your body to change your will
Feel... Heal
Mind maximised... mankind #Mickeymized!”
“If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.”
“If physicists versed in Bosonic string theory can claim twenty-six dimensions, then deep divergence should also enjoy the freedom to dance between the raindrops on the wings of human imagination.”
Source: The Utility of Deep Divergence in Applied Creativity
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.”
“If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.”
“If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.”
“If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.”
“If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.”
“If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.”
“If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.”
“If pills work for you it doesn't really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.”
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
“If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.”
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.”
Source: The fall
“If Pinocchio was a billionaire, he would look like President Trump.”
“If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.”
“If Pitt tells you there's a Santa Claus, hang your stocking on the mantel, because you better believe it.”
Source: Vixen 03
“If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.”
“If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.”
“If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.”
“If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie”
“If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.”