I Quotes
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“If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [...] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to have courage. Real courage to explore, to fail, and to pick yourself back up again.”
Source: Same Difference
“If there's one thing I've learned from all of this ... it's that no one, none of us, is ever really who we think we are. We tell ourselves lies to feel better, but they're just lies. The truth is a lot harder to look at. But the trick is, you can't let it crush you. You either accept who you are, or you change it.”
Source: The Mirror Man
“If there's one thing I've learned from being in the Selection, it's that some girls have a frightening killer instinct. Don't let the ball gowns fool you," she finished with a smile.”
“If there's one thing I've learned in my eighteen life-cycles, it's that the most special moments--the most magical pockets of out existence--are always going to be the parts of us that the rest of the world won't understand.”
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest.”
“If there's one thing I've learned, it is to never give up--no matter what your circumstances are. Giving up doesn't solve anything.”
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that people aren’t always who you think they are.”
Source: Rugged Defender
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: the jungle rules can be rewritten.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s what a woman can do to a man’s common sense.”
Source: Just His Luck
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s what a woman can do to a man’s common sense. Admittedly, I never thought it would happen to you.”
Source: Luck of the Draw
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned to admire about humans, it’s that when there’s nothing left, they become strongest.”
Source: Send Me Their Souls
“If there's one thing money does buy, it's the leisure of time-- to make decisions. Better still, to make the right ones.”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“If there’s one thing that I’ve repeatedly and rather foolishly forgotten to schedule into my life it is to create times where it’s not scheduled.”
“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.”
“If there’s one thing that will stop people from achieving their goals, it’s a wall. However, as I see it, without a wall there’s no place to build a door.”
“If there's one thing to know about the human body; it's this: the human body has a ringmaster. This ringmaster controls your digestion, your immunity, your brain, your weight, your health and even your happiness. This ringmaster is the gut”
“If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“If there’s something that you should give up on, it’s the idea of giving up.”
“If there's something you're not going to be able to do, you should just be honest and admit it.”
Source: A Midsummer's Equation
“If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.”
“If there's such a thing as a kiss of true love, then we must declare that this is one of them: this moment in which their whole life trembles, like the world reflected in a drop of dew.”
Source: The Modern Fairies
“If there seems no answers then create and apply them.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“If there should be but one at his Table mourning for sin, loving his salvation, & unfeignedly desirous to promote his praise, He will appreciate such sincerity amid abounding dissimulation & be known to that communicant in the breaking of Bread.
The Secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show 'them His covenant.'
Christ loved me and gave himself for me! From the abasement of Christ, faith rises to His Exaltation. The eye that looks up to the cross of Christ, looks up to the Heavens, and sees, in these heavens, the glory of God & Jesus standing at the right hand of God. -- David King, 'The Lord's Supper”
“If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement.
De Revolutionibus Coelestibus”
“If there should ever come another time, another place; I shall never allow the things of that which I love to become removed, tucked away, forgotten or replaced.”
Source: Notes on Background
“If there so many hurdles in your life to achieve something, you have to believe God firmly.
Because He is creating a wonderful story to inspire people through you, that couldn't be done with a single stroke of success.”
“If there still isn't space for men like us, I'll fucking build it. Not for the next generation but for the men I love right now.
Sometimes you can't wait for the world to accept you.”
Source: All Revved Up
“If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine”
“If there was a birthday party or a gathering and I was at training and couldn't make it, then I guess I might have missed out on a few things, but I wouldn't see them as sacrifices because I love what I do so much. I feel I've made the right choices in the way I've lived my life.”
“If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.”
“If there was a bridge between the Sun and the Earth, that would be a wonderful road to hell!”
“If there was a choice on spending a lot of money on accessories or dress, I always chose accessories. I think jewelry can change an outfit more than anything else.”
“If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe -no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside us as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way. And that's just what we do find inside us.”
Source: The Case for Christianity
“If there was a day of the week I could skip it would be Monday. Clients had too much time to think and worry over a long weekend and by Monday they were often riddled with fear and anxiety.”
“If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.”
“If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!”
“If there was a God he reasoned it would have the same relation to us as we have to blades of grass. Do we make them grow? Yes in the sense that we water the lawn. Do we care for them and worry over them? Again as a lawn but not as individual blades. We don't give them names. We just want them to look nice and green. A God who created the earth would want it to look nice an blue from space. He would sit back after a long day of creating things and think to himself now that's what a planet should look like.”
Source: Time Zone
“If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing fates, I would tell it to take my fate and shove it up its fucking ass. Shove it hard and far, you motherf***er. Please end. Please end. Please end.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.”
“If there was a group of men, one of them sipped his chai and told his story, and when he got to a point where he couldn’t continue, the point in the story I most wanted to hear, someone else
took a sip of his chai and began his own story, and so on and so forth, until everyone was given a say and not a single story was actually finished.”
Source: 99 Nights in Logar
“If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.”
“If there was a heaven, was it not founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?”
Source: The Passenger
“If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.”
“If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.”
“If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.”
“If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!”
“If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.”
“If there was a moment a person could choose to fall in love, that would have been mine.. with him.”
Source: The Real Ones
“If there was a moral issue involved, she would, of course, defend her position to the end. But long ago her mother had taught her that often it is the little things over which people battle foolishly, losing friends, disturbing peace of mind, destroying serenity with no end in view save that they continue to defend the position they have already taken. It was far better, her mother pointed out, to give in gracefully, remembering that a fight in a lesser cause is never worth the struggle. She maintained that by doing so one gained everything really worth having, serenity, sweetness, and inner strength.”
Source: The Years of the Locust