I Quotes
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“If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.”
“If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.”
“If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making a better theory.”
“If the theory of "Cause and Effect" reacts in opposite way is true; for example : If we take a decision in future of any past substance or action. And our past became align with the present according to our decision. That means - we live in multi dimensional parallel effect module together at a Time. Where we can only physically witness - that what our choice made an effect for the cause create for future reference.
And excluding our choice - all possible effects and choices exist in obsolete way in the same parallel multi-dimensional time frames silently out of our witnessing sight; may we can't experience it but it does exist in each and every frames.
i.e - supposedly you want to eat something spicy; due to the desire created, as per effects all possible spicy food creates multi-parallel options for the desire (Cause). And when you chose any one of them it creates particulate frames accordingly and finally as per the decision taken you witness (which is effect) your chosen frame as per the desire which was cause, and it create the rest frames accordingly ( The Future effects ) rest options remains obsoleted. But if you go back to your decision making time and chose any of the other options which was already created while your desire pop up for spicy food; then future will align with that particular option as witness ( The effect ). This is a multi-dimensional time cause and effect paradox matrix.”
Source: BLACK - "The INFiNITE": " JOURNEY to INFiNITE "
“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to the furtherance of human happiness or the relief of human suffering, as physiology and even chemistry can, then surely neither Gauss nor any other mathematician would have been so foolish as to decry or regret such applications. But science works for evil as well as for good; and both Gauss and lesser mathematicians may be justified in rejoicing that there is one science at any rate, and that their own, whose very remoteness from ordinary human activities should keep it gentle and clean.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.”
“If the therapist understands and does not take mistrust as personal affront, the therapeutic relationship can evolve gradually. The client can begin to recognize that the therapist actually "gets" why he or she is initially skeptical, self-protective, or "realistically paranoid" and does not pressure the client to be a "happy camper" but instead works to earn trust by being honorable, reliable, and consistent. This also implies a view of the client's initial mistrust as expectable in light of the client's history - that is, as a strength rather than as a deficiency or pathology.”
Source: Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach
“If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.”
“If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.”
Source: Lectures on Architecture and Painting
“If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
“If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you've given it away you'd ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever?
You're goddamn right they didn't.
They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the things they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live.
He ought to know. He was the nearest thing to a dead man on earth.”
Source: Johnny Got His Gun
“If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.”
“If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!”
Source: Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...
“If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...
“If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.”
“If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.”
Source: Sheridaniana; or, anecdotes of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; his table talk, and bon mots
“If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.”
“If the thought of losing consumes you, go back to square one.”
“If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.”
“If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.”
“If the thrill of adventure is a turn on
And you hold admiration for intelligence with zeal
Then you may have found your swan
In a Bosnian woman that helped you heal”
Source: A Candid Aim
“If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.”
“If the thrill of success doesn't make you jump out of bed in the morning, then the fear of failure should do.”
“If the throne changes hands, we will be invaded. My son is an idealist. Idealists make great leaders, but they never make good rulers. So I'll tell you what I believe, Amani. I believe that if my son's rebellion were ever to succeed, or even gain enough of a foothold to cast doubt upon my rule, we would be torn to shreds by foreign powers. It would destroy Miraji, just like my father would have destroyed it before us.
- The Sultan”
Source: Traitor to the Throne
“If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.”
“If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.”
“If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.”
“If the ticking second hands in my head are never counting up to something but always seem to be counting down to something, I don’t need to reset the clock. Rather, I need to reset how I’m listening to it.”
“If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.”
“If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.”
“If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.”
Source: A Way of Being
“If the time has been smiled for the little snowflakes, and no one could have seen it, would it be fair or unfair?”
“If the time is available for a budget, I will no doubt make use of that time.”
“If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.”
“If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.”
“If the time was not sufficient, well and good; let the job be resumed another dat.”
Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
“If the time was not sufficient, well and good; let the job be resumed another day.”
Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
“If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.”
“If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.”
Source: The Powers That Be
“If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.”
“If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.”
“If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.”
Source: The Life of George Washington by Jared Sparks
“If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.”
“If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.”
“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.”
Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures
“If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.”
“If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.”
“If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing? That is why there must be a law like gravity. Because gravity is attractive, gravitational energy is negative: One has to do work to separate a gravitationally bound system, such as the earth and moon. This negative energy can balance the positive energy needed to create matter, but it’s not quite that simple. The negative gravitational energy of the earth, for example, is less than a billionth of the positive energy of the matter particles the earth is made of. A body such as a star will have more negative gravitational energy, and the smaller it is (the closer the different parts of it are to each other), the greater this negative gravitational energy will be. But before it can become greater than the positive energy of the matter, the star will collapse to a black hole, and black holes have positive energy. That’s why empty space is stable. Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can.
Because gravity shapes space and time, it allows space-time to be locally stable but globally unstable. On the scale of the entire universe, the positive energy of the matter can be balanced by the negative gravitational energy, and so there is no restriction on the creation of whole universes. Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing in the manner described in Chapter 6. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”
Source: The Grand Design
“If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?”