I Quotes
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“If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.”
“If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.”
“If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.”
Source: Killosophy
“If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.”
“If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.”
Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques
“If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now”
“If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.”
“If the Epic of Gilgamesh carries a teaching, it is that the other makes our existence possible.”
Source: La cité des mots: CBC Massey Lectures
“If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.”
Source: The Bright Medusa
“If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.”
Source: The Locket
“If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.”
“If the essence of things or beings is forgotten in the confusion of everyday concerns, people may be left stranded in emotional voids, neglected, or overshadowed by the indifferent flow of time. ("Poste Restante")”
“If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The answer is, during time that is not used up directing day-to-day business. The fact that managers have time on their hands (i.e., their operations tasks take up less than eight hours per day) gives them time for reinvention. The extra time is not waste, but slack. Without it they could function in only their operational roles. Reinvention would be impossible because the people who could make it happen are just too busy to take the time.
Even companies that didn't fire their change centers have hurt themselves by encouraging their middle managers to stay extremely busy. In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.”
Source: Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
“If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.”
“If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“If the eternal King started in Bethlehem, so will anyone who follows Him.”
Source: After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You
“If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.”
“If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.”
“If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.”
“If the EU doesnÂ’'t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides donÂ’t need to waste their time with negotiations.”
“If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.”
“If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.”
“If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.”
Source: The Oxford history of the American people
“If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.”
“If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.”
“If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.”
“If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.”
“If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.”
Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?”
“If the evil and evil people go out of your way, and the life, the world will become heaven.”
“If the evils consider others, as the evil, it means leaving nothing except all the evils”
“If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“If the exchange act may thus be regarded as a creation of society, it is
no less true to say that both society and the individual become aware of
this only after exchanges have been completed. The work of an individual
is, first and foremost, his own individual endeavour, motivated by his
own self-interest. It is his personal labour, not the labour of society.
But whether or not it conforms with the requirements of the total
circulation of goods, of which his labour is necessarily a component
part, can be determined only when all the component elements have been
compared and the aggregate requirements of that circulation have been
completely satisfied.”
Source: Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development
“If the exercise of greed gave you everything that you have, then what you really have is ‘nothing’ that you thought to be ‘something.”
“If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .”
Source: The federalist papers
“If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.”
“If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?”
Source: Death and its mystery: before death, proofs of the existence of the soul
“If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it does not necessarily mean that we should use them. Unfortunately, we are currently on course to learn similarly grave lessons from other devastating technologies such Genetically Modified Foods, Chemtrails and HAARP.”
“If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.”
Source: The Creation of the Universe
“If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.”
“If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.”
“If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.”
Source: Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life
“If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.”
“If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.”
“If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.”
“If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.”
“If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she may feel like a failure if the introvert remains unmoved.”
“If the extrovert watches and listens a bit more, the introvert's true mood will become more evident.”