I Quotes
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“If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.”
Source: Caged in Darkness
“If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!”
“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.”
“If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.”
Source: Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times
“If the trajectory of your life is negative or flawed, then evaluating your heart is a good place to begin.”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.”
“If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.”
“If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.”
“If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.”
Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“If the trees refused to endure storms,
no human habitat could flourish anywhere.
If the one human refuses to take pains,
whole humanity will collapse and disappear.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”
“If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues about the nature and origin of human society. Consequently it was an injury to science and human knowledge to allow the military to simply exterminate them.”
“If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.”
“If the true God is not allowed to lead our lives society will continue to immerse itself into bad decision, poor planning and selfishness on all levels. This will lead to a world-wide revolution that will fuel more meaningless wars, injustice, horrific crimes, lost of life and what really matters the most, hope for the future. A love that could warms hearts. A trust that would never betray a brother or a friend. A peace that the world has never seen.”
“IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness.”
“If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.”
Source: The Works of Daniel Webster ...
“If the true word of God is preached, we will weep for our sins.”
“If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never ever exist and if it does exist it need never ever progress.”
“If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.”
“If the truth brings chaos, then let there be chaos.”
“If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.”
“If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?”
Source: Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)
“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
“If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.”
“If the truth hurt you, it was because it is helping you avoid the greater pain of the lie that you’re about to tell.”
“If the truth immediately triggers an adversarial response, it’s probably because lies have become our truth.”
“If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.”
“If the truth is Impermissible, then we'll eventually be breaking all the rules.”
“If the truth is inside,
And the form is outside,
What is the truth of sleep?”
Source: Collected Poems
“If the truth is told, the youth can grow
Then learn to survive until they gain control
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes
Read more learn more, change the globe”
“If the truth is told, the youth can grow.”
“If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn't matter, you will lose!”
“If the truth is with you, no power can knock you down!”
“If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.”
“If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.”
“If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?”
“If the truth sets us free, then everything else doesn’t. And the problem today is that there’s a whole lot of ‘everything else.”
“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”
“If the truth shall set you free, then getting a little closer to the truth should set you a little bit freer.”
“If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.”
“If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.”
“If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.”
“If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!”
“If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means; to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived.”
“If the twentieth century was shaped by warring ideologies, and the twenty-first was a battle of digital languages, our present age is defined by duelling approaches to oceanic city engineering.”
Source: Blackfish City
“If the U.S. would go back on the gold standard, our dollars would be worth so much more that we could purchase a combo meal at McDonald's for less than $2.”
“If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.”
“If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.”
“If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.”