I Quotes
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“If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.”
Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion
“If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.”
“If quarrelling be really the renewal of love, theirs had been renewed once a day at all events, and frequently much oftener.”
“If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.”
“If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.”
“If Quentin Tarantino is your writer-director then you're going to learn the words and your gonna learn why they're the words. You're gonna learn why they're the best words to say.”
“If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death.”
“If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing”
“If Québec separates I will go with it, my loyalties are with Québec”
“If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail.”
Source: Liberian Son
“If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.”
Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.”
“If racism is the product of historical and socio-economic conditions, to the extent that these conditions can be changed, racism can eventually be abolished.”
Source: Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom
“If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.”
“If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.”
“If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive”
“If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“If rainbows could rot then so could stars.”
Source: What We Harvest
“If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.”
“If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don`t put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he`s got a chance to do that.”
“If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!”
Source: Flowers of Evil: A Selection
“If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.”
“If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!”
Source: Jumpers
“If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.”
“If readers and writers are conscious of language, they will cease to be susceptible to corrupt political argument. Totalitarianism will lose its strength in the face of crisp, clear prose. It is a heavy burden to place on the shoulders of the English language. That Orwell was willing to assign language such power underscored his belief in the centrality of speech to politics, and the importance not only of securing free speech, but of ensuring that words that are spoken freely are also spoken honestly.”
Source: Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-first Century, Library Edition
“If readers can come away seeing Alfred Wallis's paintings with fresh eyes - seeing not just the charm but the strength and experience behind them – I’ll know the last eight years of the book's production will have been incredibly worthwhile.”
Source: Alfred Wallis Child Pauper To Artistic Luminary
“If readers like The Thorn and the Blossom, which I would call literary fantasy, I think they would like books such as Elizabeth Hand's Mortal Love, Catherynne Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, and Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen.”
“If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.”
“If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.”
“If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.”
“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.”
“If reading is a minority pastime today it was even more so sixty years ago. And there was no television then, no Internet, no Facebook, no tweeting and twittering, no video games, no DVD players, none of the distractions that we blame today for the decline in the reading habit.”
Source: The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life
“If reading is heaven then I am the luckiest one to create one for everyone.”
“If reading makes you happy, do it. Whatever makes your heart sing and brings you joy, do that too.”
“If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book on the top of every single page? Does anyone get halfway through a book, What the hell am I reading?”
“If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.”
“If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.”
Source: Man and Development: Binadamu Na Maendeleó
“If Real Madrid land on Manchester airport, then the airport will be surely flooded just to see one player whom fans want most. Everyone knows the name, I don't need to tell it. He is the Prince and legend of Manchester,The King and legend of Real(Madrid). 'CRISTIANO RONALDO'”
“If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.”
“If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.”
“If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
“If reality behaves and acts upon us in ways that may seem like an illusion, then this, which appears to us as an illusion, is not a bit removed from reality itself as it is, but only from our understanding of it. Even if we accept illusion as an argument against reality, this is not only a weak argument but also proves what it tries to deny.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.”
Source: Amaryllis Night and Day
“If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination”
“If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.”
“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”
Source: The Fractal Prince
“If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.”
“If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.”
“If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?”
“If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.”