I Quotes
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“If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.”
“If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.”
“If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.”
“If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.”
Source: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
“If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.”
“If the body is pampered, the mind is free to concentrate.”
“If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.”
“If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said that
every mushroom cloud has a silver lining.”
“If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the journey and try with me to scale this mountain of the dead--going up miles high on human carcasses to find still other peaks far above, mountain above mountain, white with the bones of drunkards.”
“If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
“If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.”
“If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance.”
“If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.”
Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
“If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.”
“If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.”
“If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.”
“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?”
“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”
“If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire”
“If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.”
“If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.”
“If the boundaries of the self are defined by what we feel, then those who cannot feel even for themselves shrink within their own boundaries, while those who feel for others are enlarged, and those who feel compassion for all beings must be boundless. They are not separate, not alone, not lonely, not vulnerable in the same way as those of us stranded in the islands of ourselves, but they are vulnerable in other ways. Still, that sense of the dangers of feeling for others is so compelling that many withdraw, and develop elaborate stories to justify withdrawal, and then forget that they have shrunk. Most of us do, one way or another.”
“If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.”
“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.”
“If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect.”
“If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now.”
Source: Ripe
“If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!”
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
“If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel
“If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.”
Source: Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.”
“If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.”
“If the bridge of communication is solid, then they’ll never be too much water under the bridge that lays upstream.”
“If the brightness of the extreme light in your environment is blinding you, you should definitely add darkness to your life!”
“If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.”
“If the Britain and France had done what they were obliged to do under the treaty and sent troops to enforce the treaty when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, the German general staff would have turned Hitler out. And one would not have had a cause for war, and you wouldn't have had World War II.”
“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”
“If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.”
Source: War speeches
“If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.”
“If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.”
“If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”
“If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”
Source: Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel
“If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.”
“If the bro army and sky army broke into war, I would die from the chose to fight for.”
“If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.”
“If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.”
“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.”
Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.”
Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
“If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.”