I Quotes
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“If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.”
“If the lords of the underworld can't bring me out of this funk, no one can.”
Source: Under His Skin
“If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar enough with the nature of American salesmanship to know that it will be done in the name of the starving millions, in the name of liberty, justice, democracy, and brotherhood, and to free the world from communism. We must, I think, be prepared to see, and to stand by, the truth: that the land should not be destroyed for any reason, not even for any apparently good reason. We must be prepared to say that enough food, year after year, is possible only for a limited number of peaople, and that this possibility can be preserved only by the steadfast, knowledgeable care of those people.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.”
“If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.”
“If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence”
“If the lot of you survives, Curran will flay the skin off your backs," Doolittle said.
"That's what I always love about you, Doctor." Raphael grinned. "You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said. 'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.”
“If the love is not madness, then the sex is not insane”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“If the love is true, it’s going to be with you”
“If the love is true, then treat it the same way you would plant - feed it, protect it from the elements - you must do absolutely everything you can. But if it isn't true, then it's best to just let it wither on the vine.”
Source: The Briefcase
“If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.”
“If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.”
Source: A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley
“If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon; for thou can'st hardly conceive what a high degree of enjoyment I am from day to day experiencing in this bloody and butchering department of the healing art. I am more and more delighted with my profession.”
“If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.”
“If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.”
“If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!”
“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?”
Source: Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
“If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.”
“If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.”
Source: The Political Economy of the American Revolution
“If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.”
“If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.”
“If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.”
“If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.”
“If the majority of people of a country, no matter how great its natural resources, organize and conspire to get more out and put less in, to do less and get more, how long will, how long can it last?”
“If the majority of people said I did something wrong, then I must be wrong, and I will think 'I didn't even mean it like that, why are you treating me like this?' But if a lot of people say that I'm wrong and it's not good, then it must be not good. I will say, 'Okay' and then tell myself that this cannot happen again. I have to grasp it and change it for the better.”
“If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who are involved in genuine, laborious, demanding, transrational spiritual practice? This is very difficult, because both markets are referred to as "spiritual," but these two camps really don't get along very well-one is mostly translative, the other is mostly transformative, and they generally disapprove of each other-so how do you put them into one magazine without alienating them both?”
Source: One Taste
“If the majority of the population were autistic, we would've had cruel research into why these damn non-autistics are so unempathetic; they force small talk upon others, they eat smelly food on the train, and they force everyone to constantly look them in the eyes. Truly, the behaviour of egomaniacs.”
Source: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism
“If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.”
Source: Womankind
“If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.”
Source: Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections
“If the man screwed like he kissed she was a goner”
Source: Some Girls Do
“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.”
Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.”
“If the manager of a company can put the needs of their staff ahead of their own ego, then that business has a good chance of prospering.”
“If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.”
“If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.”
Source: Swamiji and His Message
“If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.”
Source: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
“If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.”
“If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed.”
Source: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
“If the market is so cheap, you want to get something with a little more zip in it, or potential.”
“If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.”
“If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.”
“If the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.”
“If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.”
“If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward”
Source: Thirukkural
“If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.”
“If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.”