I Quotes
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“If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!”
“If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel
“If the husband is always the prime suspect, the lover must be second in line.”
Source: White Shotgun: An FBI Special Agent Ana Grey Novel
“If the husband is not in a peaceful state of mind and is deprived of conjugal happiness, it would eventually percolate down to everyone else in the family. Hence, if the husband is without bliss, the fate of the wife also remains sunk in gloom.”
Source: Monologues of Mahalakshmi
“If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.”
“If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.”
“If the idea doesn’t drive us crazy and make us restless, it basically belongs to that cluster of ideas that keeps hovering in our mind sans any purpose.”
“If the idea is you're working at a job solely to pay the bills because you have ambitions to do something else, if you're not actively trying to do that other thing, you've gotta make sure you're doing that. Sometimes you've gotta take away your own safety net. But if you feel miserable in a day job, in any job, get out of that. Look for something else. Stay in that job until you have the other thing set up, and then go to that other thing. But sometimes you've just got to jump out with a parachute and trust that you're going to land someplace safe.”
“If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause”
“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.”
“If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.”
Source: To Educate the Human Potential
“If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.”
“If the ideas are not exposed to other people in the world, those ideas don’t do us any good.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“If the ideas of reincarnation were true, I would love to see the slave incarnated as the king.”
“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”
“If the ignorants had sensed the essence of life, this battleground would have turned into a lover's ground, and lilies would have sprung up in lakes, whispering peace. Roses would have woken up in meadows, drowsing warriors' hearts, turning them into lovers. Thorns would have been crushed in the tipsy scent of life.”
“If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.”
“If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.”
“If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry”
Source: The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius
“If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.”
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.”
“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“If the immigrant is responsible for assimilation of the country, and some of these people are in fact are born there. But if you find it unwelcoming to your own barbaric notions of equality, that is not on the country, that is on you. If you leave a horrible place, please leave your horrible practices behind.”
“If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”
“if the important thing is not to win but to complete then was not punctual invented.”
“If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.”
Source: Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works
“If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God.”
“If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.”
“If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.”
Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
“If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.”
“If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice.”
“If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.”
Source: State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays
“If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.”
“If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.”
“If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.”
“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated atom; he and the world become part of one structuralized whole; he has his rightful place, and thereby his doubt concerning himself and the meaning of life disappears. This doubt sprang from his separateness and from the thwarting of life; when he can live, neither compulsively nor automatically but spontaneously, the doubt disappears. He is aware of himself as an active and creative individual and recognizes that there is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.”
“If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.”
“If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.”
“If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.”
“If the infinite is to manifest the potential that lies within it in form, then the mechanism by which it does so is this apparent division of itself into a subject and object. Now there is duality. The subject-object relationship is the mechanism by which the manifest — the potential that lies unmanifest in the infinite — is realized in form. But it comes at a price [...]”
“If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.”
Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
“If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.”
Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means “Our Own Self” did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.”
“If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!”
“If the inner world splinters into pieces and we feel abandoned in the remains of a worn-out story, let us look up, discern new paths, and listen to the stirring, tingling sounds in the dense thicket of untrodden settings that we go across during our journey. ("Halt in flight")”
“If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.”
Source: Two treatises of government