I Quotes
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“If there's something left in me, it's better to go down fighting. You've got to have a bit of self-belief and confidence in yourself. I might know that I have only a little chance but I'm a good rider and I try to make it happen. You have to give luck a swift kick in the behind so it falls on your side. You have to make your own luck.”
“If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.”
“If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.”
“If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.”
“If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.”
“If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.”
“If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true.”
“If there's something wrong, speak up!”
“If there's something you need to get done, don't make it a drama. It's much more enjoyable without it.”
“If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.”
“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”
“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.”
“If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.”
“If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?”
“If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.”
“If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.”
“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are able to find among them no such act of adoption; we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.
['Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law?', letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, from Monticello, February 10, 1814]”
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
Source: The essence of Christianity
“If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.”
“If therefore the Father is the God of Christ and the same one is our God, and if there is no God but one, there can be no God beside the Father.”
Source: Milton on the Son of God and the Holy Spirit, from his Treatise on Christian doctrine
“If theres a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.”
“If theres a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.”
“If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.”
“If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.”
“If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, its this: Im not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.”
“If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.”
“If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.”
“If there’s a place for it in your heart, there’s a place for it in your home.”
“If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.”
“If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.”
“If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.”
“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”
“If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience.”
“If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.”
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.”
“If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.”
Source: JAMAICA INN
“If there’s something you want to do, then that means you have a goal. But that goal may change as you live. You never know when your interests may change direction, so always anticipate it, day by day.”
“If these adjustments sound like too much of a hassle, then we need to consider a bigger question... If production companies can't provide a safe set for minors, are they qualified to hire children?”
Source: Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
“If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?”
“If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.”
“If these children can survive the depravity inflicted on them by others, then I can certainly endure hearing about it!”
Source: The Perfect Waltz
“If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind.”
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer actors, but the spectators of the play.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.”
“If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.”
Source: Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement
“If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject.”
“If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.”
“If these past few weeks have taught me anything, it’s that sooner or later we all run out of time… Safe choices are fine, but if my clock hits zero tomorrow, I don’t want any regrets. I don’t know how long I’ll be in Italy, or what the world will look like when I come back; all I know is that we’re here now, and there’s no reason why we shouldn’t have what we want.”
Source: Death Prefers Blondes