I Quotes
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“If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.”
“If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential to do great good can handily rival the tendency to carry out great evil. And out of that understanding may I commit in my own life to make certain that in such a critical rivalry I will ensure that towers will never fall because of me, but people will be raised up due to me.”
“If there is any such thing as a sign, if there is anything compassionate in the brutality that is being alive...
I reach forward and brush my fingers against the spine. A book I had not considered before, not in any real seriousness, as an instructional. A way of life that is not quiet or secret or tucked away. How silly of me. How silly of us, to think we must do in shadow what men do in the light. What they have always done. How blind I have been.”
Source: Maeve Fly
“If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.”
Source: Hooked
“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”
Source: Persuasion
“If there is any trouble within your heart - be free, in the name of Jesus Christ”
“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I am with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome.”
“If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I’m with you.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.”
“If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341
“If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.”
“If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.”
Source: Mollie and Other War Pieces
“if there is any worry in your mind, and if at that moment the words 'My Lord' comes to your lips, then believe me your worry will be destroyed. If at that moment you remember that you are not without a Protector, you have (are with) a Protector, then how can fear remain? Fear comes only in the lives of those who are without any Protector.”
“If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.”
Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.”
“If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.”
“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”
“If there is anyone in this world who owes you success, it is yourself. Therefore, go out there with resilience and make it happen.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.”
“If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.”
“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.”
“If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.”
“If there is anything bigger than the state of Texas, it is the Pacific Ocean. --Admiral Chester W. Nimitz”
Source: Nimitz
“If there is anything certain in life, it is this. Time doesn't always heal. Not really. I know they say it does, but that is not true. What time does is to trick you into believing that you have healed, that the hurt of a great loss has lessened. But a single word, a note of a song, a fragrance, a knife point of dawn light across an empty room, any one of these things will take you back to that one moment you have never truly forgotten. These small things are the agents of memory. They are the sharp needle points piercing the living fabric of your life.
Life, my children, isn't linear where the heart is concerned. It is filled with invisible threads that reach out from your past and into your future. These threads connect every second we have lived and breathed. As your own lives move forward and as the decades pass, the more of these threads are cast. Your task is to weave them into a tapestry, one that tells the story of the time we shared.”
“If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.”
“If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.”
Source: Thoughts
“If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.”
“If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.”
“If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.”
“If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.”
“If there is anything I have learned, it is this - we must seek truth and goodness and stop stroking the ego of a crowd. In the words of C.S. Lewis, "Courage, dear heart.”
“If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and acknowleges I am there, then goes back to what it was doing.”
Source: The Backyard Bird Chronicles
“If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.”
“If there is anything I really fear it is the mind of a young girl.”
“If there is anything I regret then it is that period when I allowed mystical and theological profundities to mislead me into withdrawing too much into myself.
…..When you wake up in the morning and find you are not alone but can see a fellow creature there in the half-light, it makes the world look so much more welcoming. Much ,more welcoming than the devotional journals and whitewashed church walls beloved of clergymen.”
Source: Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - III vols
“If there is anything I’ve learned the last year it is the importance of being clear on what you want. I spent the better part of last year just figuring out what I actually want with my life. What I want to have around me, how I want to spend my days, the people I want in my life, what I want to create, why it’s important to me and most importantly who I need to be in order to create that life for myself. Who do I need to be to have that career I’m dreaming of? When you can see the highest version of yourself crystal clear you will wake up each day striving to walk in new ways. You see that future YOU as a role model and you are filled with energy to grow and level up and take that place. If you want a change, you really do need to let go of how you have done things in the past. It’s the most exciting feeling, stepping into that future vision of myself, a little bit every day.”
“if there is anything i want to be…
i want to be the most passionate version
of myself… to feel and feel… and follow what i feel,
and inhale love and be love, and exhale any fear…
and this version of me won't apologize
for having a heart on fire”
“If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.”
“If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them”
“If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends.”
“If there is anything important that a business owner could learn from this pandemic is to always be prepared for the unexpected.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.”
“If there is anything in life to worry about at all, it’s your wasted yesterday. Unfortunately, before you worry about it, you have to waste today doing so. Never worry!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is the rise of cultural pessimism, whose major passion is bitter hostility toward many or most of the people within the very culture the pessimists always feel they are intent on rescuing. When panic on one side is creating alarm on another, it is easy to forget there are always as good grounds for optimism as for pessimism, exactly the same grounds, in fact. That is because we are human. We still have every potential for good as we ever had, and the same presumptive claim to respect, our own respect in one another. We are still creatures of singular interest and value, agile of soul as we have always been and as we will continue to be even despite our errors and degradations for as long as we abide on this earth. To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error.”
Source: The Givenness of Things: Essays
“If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.”
“If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.”
“If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.”
Source: Collected essays
“If there is anything in this world which transcends the relativities of cultural conditioning, it is Zen—by whatever name it may be called.”