I Quotes
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“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
“If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not "want" it-choose it.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“If there is something you keep putting off, something that calls you, scares you, stretches you: look there.
Because the magic you are looking for might just be hiding in the thing you are avoiding. And what you are not changing, you are choosing.”
Source: THE ANTICIPATION PRINCIPLE: Becoming The Most Effortless You
“If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“If there is something you think you can do well, perfect the action.”
Source: Anything You Wish: Beyond Limits
“If there is something, you want to achieve, think of the way you'll pass, difficulties you'll meet, think of the sacrifice because nothing you can achieve without sacrifice and we ignore what we love so as to get what we want”
“If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible.”
“If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.”
Source: The Shockwave Rider
“If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.”
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
“If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
“If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.”
Source: Moon Over Manifest
“If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.”
“If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.”
Source: The American West as Living Space
“If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.”
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.”
“If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane.”
“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“If there is such a thing as mental slavery, then we need a mental revolution to get rid of all the corrupt minds who wish to enslave mankind.”
“If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.”
“If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.”
“If there is such a thing as sin, then it is a sin not to be able to play a musical instrument.”
Source: The Atom Station
“If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.”
“If there is such a thing as the business of sadness, what is its 401K plan or how to succeed without really trying.”
Source: Meant to Wake Up Feeling
“If there is such a thing as "white privilege" its the belief that the last 200 years of progress in human liberty and technological innovation would have occurred under any other type of government. THE CONSTITUTION MATTERS.”
“If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.”
“If there is the fear of God before your eyes, you will depart from evil ways.”
“If there is the truth to be told to the young, is the truth of not to lie.”
“If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.”
“If there is to be a competition, there must be some basis for resolving it. It is also clear that the competition should be experienced based.”
Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity
“If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.”
“If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.”
“If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.”
“If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.”
Source: Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society
“If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means”
“If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.”
Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17
“If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.”
Source: The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes
“If there is to be no ceiling on the amount of money a man can take out of our economy, then concomitantly there can be no foundation below which a human being cannot sink. What capitalists must realize is that you are fighting to make capitalism survive, not destroy it; you are fighting to eliminate the seeds of destruction inherent in the status quo."
~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's letter to Don Matchan, 27 April 1947”
Source: Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
“If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.”
Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
“If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.”
“If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.”
“If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.”
“If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.”
Source: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
“If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.”
“If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.”
“If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.”
“If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).”
“If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.”
“If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.”
Source: Collected Works
“If there is war between Love, Destiny and Nature ; Nature must win.”