I Quotes
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“If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.”
“If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.”
“If the most powerful man in the world can be banned on social media, one thing that is certain is that the least powerful person in the world cannot be banned from buying Bitcoin. It is for everyone!”
“If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.”
“If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing.”
“If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.”
“If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as I think all of these poems are. It seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences right for yourself and make discoveries as you go along and find for them some formal glue - they will be poems for others.”
“If the mountain despises the valley, the valley reminds him of the clouds and the Moon!”
“If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.”
Source: Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems
“If the movement has flourished, it is thanks to Baden-Powell’s vision, Dicky’s bandages, and my firm insistence on elevenses.”
Source: The Scoutingly Heroic Adventures of Sir Dungchunder
“If the movie [The Hunger Games] were stylized violence that was pretty and fun and cool, which is great when you go see 300 or The Matrix, it would just be out of sync with the fact that they're kids.”
“If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.”
“If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.”
“If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.”
“If the movie is terrible you can have fun. You can joke about it and have a ball. The movie is already sort of established as a kind of extraordinary piece of work even though it hasn't opened yet to the public. It is harder because you can't go against it and you can't be interesting. You have to go with the flow. Although one is very happy to be in it, it is sort of hard to talk about it. It is hard to talk about successful. It is much easier to talk about failure.”
“If the movie is terrible, then the 3D sucks. If the movie is fantastic, then the 3D is good.”
“If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.”
“If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.”
“If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.”
“If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.”
“If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“If the multiverse turns out to be the best explanation of the fundamental physical constants, it would not be the first time we have been flabbergasted by worlds beyond our noses. Our ancestors had to swallow the discovery of the Western Hemisphere, eight other planets, a hundred billion stars in our galaxy (many with planets), and a hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. If reason contradicts intuition once again, so much the worse for intuition. Another advocate of the multiverse, Brian Greene, reminds us:
“From a quaint, small, earth-centered universe to one filled with billions of galaxies, the journey has been both thrilling and humbling. We’ve been compelled to relinquish sacred belief in our own centrality, but with such cosmic demotion we’ve demonstrated the capacity of the human intellect to reach far beyond the confines of ordinary experience to reveal extraordinary truth.”
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
“If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.”
“If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.”
“If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.”
“If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.”
“If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.”
“If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.”
“If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.”
“If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.”
“If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to dominate a small breeding group.”
“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation. It did not survive the failure of all his adult relationships. He had always treated poems as a form of private communication. He gave his songs to chansonniers, his satires to satirists. Without a constant companion, he was writing in a void.”
Source: Rimbaud: A Biography
“If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.”
“If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.”
“If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it.”
“If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“If the name of your hurricane is Love,
And the soundtrack to your life is Hurt,
Write.”
“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.”
“If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932, Volume 1
“If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.”
“If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.”
“If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.”
“If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.”
Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West
“If the nations of Africa desired to assure the prosperity of the next 25 generations of African people, they would get together and collaborate on establishing a continental Permaculture Economy. And they would do that immediately. That would be a wise investment.”
“If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans.”
Source: Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
“If the nature of deserving was tid for tat, who would believe or want what they really deserved?”
“If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.”