I Quotes
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“If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.”
“If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.”
Source: Unicorn Variations
“If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.”
Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals
“If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.”
“If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.”
“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.”
Source: The Library at Night
“If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.”
“If the lie becomes our truth, so does our destruction.”
“If the lie is large enough, everyone will believe it.”
“If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.”
“If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.”
“If the lifestyle choices outlined in this book were uniformly adopted, the savings in suffering and health care costs would be tremendous.”
“If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.”
“If the light in our hearts can brighten up the darkness in the mindset of our neighbors, we liberate them from a prison of distrust and prejudice. The healing glow unshackles the frozen atoms of their minds. ("Le ciel c'est l'autre")”
“If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.”
“If the light that is on you is brighter than the light that is in you, the light that is on you will destroy you.”
“If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker.”
“If the light were kind and foolish enough to ask permission from the darkness to illuminate the darkness, the entire universe would be plunged into darkness! Lucky for us, the light enters everywhere without anyone's permission, without listening to anyone!”
“If the light within you is greater than the darkness around you, you are a star.”
“If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.”
“If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.”
Source: Utopia
“If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.”
Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake
“If the list of things you can do when you're young hasn't changed much with age, then you've aged really well, congratulations!”
“If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird.”
“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”
“If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.”
“If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.”
Source: Studies in Pessimism
“If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.”
Source: Damned
“If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.”
“If the logos had become part of history in this man Jesus, then two dualisms which were fundamental to classical thought were no longer tenable. One was the dualism between the "sensible" and the "intelligible," or--as we might say--between the material and the mental or spiritual.”
Source: Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
“If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'”
“If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.”
“If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c
“If the Lord calls you, He will equip you for the task He wants you to fulfill”
Source: With the Word: The Chapter-by-Chapter Bible Handbook
“If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?”
“If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.”
“If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.”
“IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.”
“If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.”
“If the Lord is your shepherd, He is sufficient for all your needs.”
Source: Our God is Awesome: Encountering the Greatness of Our God
“If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. The Lord’s people have always been a waiting people.”
“If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.”
“If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven”
“If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles you would make yourself debtor to Him, while by suffering He may become debtor to you. And even if sufferings had no other reward than being able to bear something for that God who loves you, is not this a great reward and a sufficient remuneration? Whoever loves, understands what I say.”
“If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.”
“If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!”
“If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself
“If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach.”