I Quotes
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“If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.”
“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”
“If telling men "don't rape" instead of telling women "don't get raped", is like telling thieves "don't steal" instead of home owners to "lock your houses", why don't we hear more victims of home invasion being told "you got what you deserved for having such a beautiful house on display for everyone to see" ???”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.”
“If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?”
“If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!”
“If ten people join together to pull you down, show them you have the strength and courage to pull all the ten above”
“If ten people were to fight one person, who would win? The one person because he's left alone. Just like me. And I still haven't been cough.”
“If tenderness is any sort of currency
maybe I don't want what it can buy.”
Source: Soft Science
“If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.”
“If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.”
“If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.”
Source: Step Across This Line
“If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.”
“If Tesla autopilot cars were airplanes, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would have grounded them.”
“If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.”
“If thanks was what I wanted," Sandry replied in the same language, "I would be sad indeed. Since I don't want it, I won't miss it.”
Source: Sandry's Book
“If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.”
Source: The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
“If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.”
“If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.”
“If that doesn't scare you away. My Alien friends will abduct you, then probe you, just for the fun of it.”
“If that door is not what you bargained for, let it gently close. Do not chase after it at all. You can still find new horizons.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.”
Source: A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book
“If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world. So I remain unconvinced. If that god is all-powerful and all-good, I don't see that when a tsunami kills a quarter-million or an earthquake kills a quarter-million people. I'd like to think of good as something in the interest of your health or longevity.”
“If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.”
“If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I got.”
“If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!”
“If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.”
“If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers... I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.”
“If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.”
“If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.”
“If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.”
“If that isn't a declaration of love, I don't know what is. And the words tumble out of me—a dam breached.”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!”
Source: Her Mother's Keeper
“If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.”
“If that makes you uncomfortable, maybe the problem isn’t with her tone—it’s with the parts of you that were taught to fear strength when it comes wrapped in Black skin and a woman’s voice. (Hypocrisy: Why Jasmine Crockett Is Held to a Higher Standard Than Donald Trump – blog)”
“If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.”
“If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.”
“If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always innocent people who got hurt somewhere along the way but it was important that those who oppressed one group of people be stopped, and we don't see the animal liberation struggle being substantially different from these other struggles.... A sustained campaign against a particular industry or a particular organization has the potential to be quite effective.”
“If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.”
“If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.”
Source: Shiver
“If that monster is your Darkness, then I have reason to fight it.”
“If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection.”
“If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety.”
“If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.”
Source: More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations
“If that person, whose attention you are dying for, neglects you totally, there can be nothing more torturous than this. It can frustrate you to a level, that may turn you into a savage or a saint.”
“If that's the case, hurrah for the crazy people! Look, Lola, do you remember a single name, for instance, of any of the soldiers killed in the Hundred Years War? Did you ever try to find out who any of them were? No! You see? You never tried. As far as you are concerned, they are as anonymous, as indifferent, as the last atom of that paperweight, as your morning bowel movement. Get into your head, Lola, that they died fot nothing! For absolutely nothing, the idiots! I say it and I'll say it again! I've proved it! The one thing that counts is life! In ten thousand years, I'll bet you, this war, remarkable as it may seem to us at present, will be utterly forgotten... Maybe here and there in the world a handful of scholars will argue about its causes or the dates of the principal hecatombs that made it famous. Up until now those are the only things about men that other men have thought worth remembering after a few centuries, a few years, or even a few hours... I don't believe in future, Lola...”
“If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.”
Source: The Fifteenth of June