I Quotes
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“If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.”
Source: The Master's Daughter
“If their IQ's where five points lower they'd be geraniums.”
“If their love comes in a time when you’re not in a good place to be with them, let it go because they’ll bring out the worst in you. If their love competes with your ex’s, let it go because you’ll sabotage a connection before it happens. If your head is full of doubt rather than hope, let it go because you’ll make them pay for someone else’s mistakes. If their love asks too much of you, let it go because you can’t give, what you don’t have. If their love forces itself on you, let it go because you’ll run away from it. If their love isn’t what you’re looking for, let it go because you’ll keep it until you find the one you actually want”
“If their love hurts, more than it heals, let it go. It’ll leave you with pain that never goes away, it’ll leave you with scars that never fade, it’ll leave you with tears that never dry”
“If their love traps you rather than it sets you free, let them go because it’ll suffocate you. If their love is judgy rather than accepting, let it go because it’ll never make you feel like you are good enough. If their love fills you with insecurity rather than confidence, let it go because it’ll destroy your self-esteem. If their love makes you anxious rather than relaxed, let it go because it’ll damage your mental health. If their love takes you for granted rather than appreciates you, let it go because it’ll burn you out. If their love surrounds you with shame rather than pride, let it go because it’ll drag you to a dark place of self-hatred and self-blame.”
“If their own duplicity deserts human beings, then the roles are reversed: it is the machine that goes gaga, that falters and becomes perverse, diabolic, ventriloquous. The duplicity merrily goes over to the other side. If subjective irony disappears - and it disappears in the play of the digital- then irony becomes objective. Or it becomes silence.”
Source: Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
“If their rules made sense
and sense ruled—
If their laws weren’t so brok- en
I wouldn’t break ‘em.”
Source: Bacchus Against the Wall
“If their story is lost, precious
family treasures are demoted to antiques. Knowing history is
the difference between selling them when you’re hard up for
cash or holding on to them at all costs.”
Source: Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms
“If their success intimidates or upsets you, then you have a problem. You’re not fully focused on your own journey. You’re also letting ego get in the way. Learn to disengage from what others are doing or not doing. Pay no attention to their harsh words too. Mind your own journey.”
“If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.”
Source: Super-Cannes: A Novel
“If theme is the soul of a story, then the characters are its beating heart.”
Source: Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar
“If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.”
“If, then, I had a pen at hand, I could capture that moment in two lines in the Vasantatilaka meter – my meter of preference. But scenes such as these have an ephemeral quality. You capture them as you experience them after which they are gone.”
Source: Game of Big Numbers
“If-Then" is a structured logic of humans' thought,
who have memories and imagination in their mind.
If both don't exist, Then this quote has never even been written.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.”
Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric
“If, then, man is to rediscover his own image in the macroscopic and microscopic worlds which science reveals, this will be the "own image" in which God is said to have created him[.]”
Source: psychotherapy east and west
“If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.”
“If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author
“If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman’s arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which has spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with the doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne! Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God!”
Source: Moby Dick
“If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,
It stands as an edict in destiny:
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.”
Source: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.”
Source: Homilies: On the Epistles of St. Paul, the Apostle, to the Philippians, Colassians and Thessalonians. 1843
“If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.”
“If then you notice that [your solitude] is great, rejoice because of this; for what (ask yourself) would solitude be that had no greatness; there is but one solitude, and that is great, and not easy to bear, and to almost everybody come hours when they would gladly exchange it for any sort of intercourse, however banal and cheap, for the semblance of some slight accord with the first comer, with the unworthiest... But perhaps those are the very hours when solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of springtimes. But that must not mislead you. The necessary thing is after all but this: solitude, great inner solitude.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.”
“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?”
“If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.”
“If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.”
“If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.”
Source: Pragmatism
“If theology is to contribute anything good to the world, then it must shift its focus from the study of scriptures to the outspoken advocacy of religious integration. And if theologians cannot be the forerunners of religious integration, then such theology isn't worth a penny.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“If theology is your field, and you still believe that your religion is the only true religion, and all other religions are false, then you are studying theology wrong.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.”
“If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns; with a Memoir of the Author's Life and a Glossary
“If there ain't no fire burning, look for embers.”
Source: The Shadow Sect
“If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the guy. So it is a monastic life, it is very lonely, if I was prone to loneliness. It's a lot like wrestling, no one can throw a block for you, no one can give you a pass. Nobody can hand the ball off to you, it's you only for an hour and a half every night.”
“If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.”
“If there are 3 ways to rise, 1 may lead to darkness.”
“If there are 8 billion people in this world, it means there are 8 billion gurus! You can learn a little from some, a lot from some others! You will never meet anyone from whom you cannot learn anything!”
“If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God's hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.”
“If there are a few good people in the world, let them be, but may all others remain natural. Otherwise, work can’t go on, nor can the soul survive.”
Source: Gora
“If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out.”
“If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.”
“If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them.”
“If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.”
Source: Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment
“If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.”
Source: Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
“If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.”
“if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
one. It will not be a pansy heaven or
a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
it will be a heaven of blackred roses
my father will be(deep like a rose
tall like a rose)
standing near my
swaying over her
(silent)
with eyes which are really petals and see
nothing with the face of a poet really which
is a flower and not a face with
hands
which whisper
This is my beloved my
(suddenly in sunlight
he will bow,
and the whole garden will bow)”
Source: Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte
“If there are any ifs to salvation then no one is saved by grace. Everyone saves himself who can meet the requirements”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.”