I Quotes
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“If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?”
“If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.”
“If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”
“If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.”
“if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.”
“If, somewhere, any possible world can exist, then somewhere there is any letter that could possibly be written. Somewhere, all those checks really were in the mail.”
Source: Going Postal
“If somewhere deep within me arises some essence
of having been a child, one I never experienced,
perhaps the purest childness of my childhood,
I don’t want to know it. Without even looking,
I want to form an angel out of it
and hurl him into the foremost rank
of screaming angels, to remind God.”
“If somewhere I am honest that's in the "On The Record", short story, but can you handle it?”
“If somthing is not right or real, dont loss your self. - Clarice Bean Dont look Now”
“If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .”
“If Sony's not going to show 'The Interview,' that's it. No more North Korean movies for me.”
“If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.”
Source: The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)
“If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.”
“If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of ourselves and may, with any luck, be confident of others. Our object will be to enjoy our selves. But to make sure that our names are permanently on the cast list, it will be advisable to be of interest to others. This aim must never be confused with the desire to be popular.”
“If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“If sorrow is written in your fate, the reason would not necessarily be analytical”
Source: I Call It The City Of Love
“If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?”
Source: The Major Works
“If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“If souls could be mated with wishes, ours would be inextricably entwined.”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.”
“If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.”
“If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.”
“If Southwest Airlines computers are not being fixed, what else is not being fixed?”
“If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.”
“If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.”
“If #SpartanSurvived failed in its efforts, no one would be the wiser. There was no risk to her online persona. No backlash from haters. Anonymity’s cloak both protected her and kept the torch of Spartan alive. Because as much as fandom knew a fan had created the post, the faceless message held the faint promise of authenticity. And if people believed it, then the magic was real. They could change Spartan’s fate, because they thought they could, and tonight’s video would cast the first spell.”
Source: All the Feels
“If speaking kindly to plants helps them grow, imagine what that could do for the human experience.”
Source: Little Flutters Lead Me Home
“If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.”
Source: Speeches
“If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.”
“If speed one day kills me, don't be sad because I was smiling”
“If Spence had really wanted to bed Miss Nordstrum, he would have said how she’d been in his mind since the moment he arrived in Reederville. He’d have added that her visits to Amanda after the baby’s birth had given him hope that she might have come in part to see him.
And he would have ended by assuring her that when he agreed to go riding with her today it hadn’t been with the intention of kissing her, but
her beauty had stolen his senses away and he couldn’t resist her
charms. He wouldn’t have fucked her that afternoon, but sometime within a month, he could’ve seduced her into bed.
Spence was a master at weaving a spell of words to charm a woman
into doing what he wanted. Hadn’t he proven that with Amanda? Amanda, who wouldn’t leave his head, day or night.
Amanda, the most colossal mistake of his life.”
Source: Perfecting Amanda
“If Spiderman was real, and I was a criminal, and he shot me with his web, I would say, "Dude, thanks for the hammock."”
“If Spirit has any meaning, it must be omnipresent, or all-pervading and all-encompassing. There can't be a place where Spirit is not, or it wouldn't be infinite. Therefore, Spirit has to be completely present, right here, right now, in your own awareness. That is, your own present awareness, precisely as it is, without changing it or altering it in any way, is perfectly and completely permeated by Spirit.”
“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”
“if spiritual forces operate in a different sphere to the rule of law and human rights, then democratic politics is failing to deal with a fundamental problem in people’s lives and after-lives. the repercussions of AIDS for the moral cosmology are profound indeed. the secular frameworks of epidemiology and public policy will not by themselves be enough to make sense of the virus and epidemic. we need to develop and deploy metaphors that speak to the social world, constructed around moral imaginings which are impacted by AIDS and which in turn constrain social capabilities to respond to AIDS. we should also be alert to the fact that scholars and policy makers themselves are unable to think about the crisis that is AIDS without using language and imagery borrowed from another realm of human experience. how we think about the AIDS epidemic becomes its own reality. yet we must not lose sight of the virus and the disease. (…) AIDS represents the ordinary workings of biology, not an irrational or diabolical plague with moral meaning. HIV transmission is preventable and medication is available that can extend a healthy life for those living with HIV. science can triumph, given resources, policies and the right social and political context.”
Source: AIDS and Power: Why there is no Political Crisis - Yet by Waal, Alex de [Zed Books, 2006] ( Paperback ) [Paperback]
“If Spiritual perfection was easy everyone would do it. The beauty of this life is that wherever you are is where you're supposed to be. As you live this experience making your best choices according to the light you've been given, it is accounted as righteousness. You are where you are and I am where I am, and I feel certain that each of us is doing the very best we can with the light we've been given. There is a huge difference between believing something and knowing it. Failing at a belief is quite normal, and failing in a knowing is not possible. We are here to make mistakes. Guilt, regret, shame, etc... Slow our Spiritual growth. The only thing that is real is God's ways, and they are beyond our scope of understanding, so all we can do is our best, and God will never ask more.”
“If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.”
“If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.”
“If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.”
“If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.”
“If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!”
“If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.”
Source: The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)
“If Spring-Heeled Jack, or Varney the Vampyre, or the air-pirates, or any of the other blackguards who roamed England, ever caught any of those girls in a dark alley they'd be dead for sure.”
Source: Cogheart
“If Springtime crawls out of the
wild mouths of flowers, then
surely, Winter crawls out of mine.”
Source: The Wingless
“If St. Paul urged us "to pray always" (Eph. 6:18), Buddha would make it "meditate always.”
Source: Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian
“If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.”
“If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?”