I Quotes
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“If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.”
“If the race is good, so is the place.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits
“If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility”
“If the race isn't over after you have won, then it wasn't your game!”
“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.”
“If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...
I am become Death,
The shatterer of worlds.
[Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.]”
“If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?”
“if the rain you left behind
for me to deal with
taught me anything in this life,
it would be that after every shower
there would be rays of sun
so I will believe the sky when it cries
that all will be okay
eventually.”
Source: Naked As We Came
“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”
“If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.”
“If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.”
“If the reader doesn't connect with your character, they are not going to connect with the story. I try to make my characters very relatable. After all, we are selling their story. The reader has to be able to feel what the character is feeling. They have to laugh and cry with them.”
Source: God Bless My Broken Road
“If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.”
“If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.”
“If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”
Source: A Moveable Feast
“If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too.”
“If the real deal represents an ideal and fakes represent attempts to realize that ideal, then perhaps it is actually better if the real deal didn't exist. Well, maybe that's going too far, but if the real deal is an ideal, then we can also wonder if it is an illusion. Of course, what people idolize as the real thing must have begun as the pursuit of an ideal, which is to say that it wasn't the real thing from the outset. If we roughly define the real deal's value as the impact it has on people, however, perhaps it is the real deal, after all, that gives rise to real deals. Given the above, rather than say that the two concepts of real and fake form a pair, it may be more accurate to say that they are just two sides of the same coin.”
Source: NISEMONOGATARI, Part 2: Fake Tale
“If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.”
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.”
Source: Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
Source: Something Rotten: Thursday Next
“If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!”
“If the reality makes you unhappy, make yourself happy with the surreal!”
“If the reality of our life has become an unsettling arabesque puzzle and we still want to add more filigree embroidery to it, we might, some day, expect to stray from the point of recognition, lose the final thread, be expelled to the edge of delusion and forced to dance on the brim of chaos. ("Alert. High noon." )”
“If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.”
“If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.”
“If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong”
“If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.”
“If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don't know. I'm not a fortuneteller to tell you what's going to happen.”
“If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.”
“If the reflection is beautiful, we can be sure that the reflected is beautiful! If someone’s character is beautiful, we can be sure that his mind is beautiful!”
“If the refugees return to Israel - Israel will cease to exist.”
“If the Regime had a factory producing Hope, the Resistance had a factory producing the tools of despair.”
Source: Hopebreaker
“If the region truly becomes democratic, an undemocratic bit of earth would remain here. It's hard to imagine that the world, especially the Arab world, would tolerate this.”
“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.”
“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.”
“If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.”
“If the relationship between you and your money is harmonious, regardless of how much you have, your financial transactions will be harmonious as well.”
“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”
“If the relationship requires you to become smaller, quieter, or less yourself, it’s not a relationship—it’s a performance.”
Source: Stop Dating the Wrong Letters Companion Guide: Decode Love, One Letter at a Time (alphabetically Speaking)
“If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.”
“If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.”
“If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.”
Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
“If the religious theory that you learn does not serve to bring happiness and joy into your everyday life, what’s the point? Even though you say, “I’m a practitioner of this or that religion,” check what you’ve done, how you’ve acted, and what you’ve discovered since you’ve been following it […] If your path teaches you to act and exert yourself correctly and leads to spiritual realizations such as love, compassion and wisdom, then obviously it’s worthwhile. Otherwise, you’re just wasting your time.”
Source: Becoming Your Own Therapist
“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.”
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.”
Source: America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights
“If the Republican Party continues to have a different message for every different group, they're gonna die. We already have a party that does that, and they own it. It's called the Democrat Party.”
“If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.”
“If the Republican Party shifts to the right, how will we know?”