I Quotes
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“If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.”
Source: Social Statics: Great Essays
“If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.”
“If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.”
“If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.”
Source: Collected Works
“If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.”
“If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.”
Source: The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright
“if they aren't asking questions that means their mind isn't open to learning, they just pretending that they understand.”
“If they aren't going to advance God's kingdom, I don't care to help them advance their kingdom.”
“If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.”
“If they ask you about me, tell them “She was the only girl who loved me with honesty, and I broke her.”.”
“If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart.”
“If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign.”
“If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.”
“If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.”
“If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.”
“If they asked me, I would have to say no. I made up my mind to play for the United States some day and I'm sticking to it.
(on playing for Ghana)”
“If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.”
“If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.”
Source: The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions
“If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.”
Source: The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life
“If they believe only what they can see, why do we have classrooms?”
“If They Betrayed You Once, They Can Do It Again.”
Source: Street Knowledge
“If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.”
“If they break your heart, break their bones”
“If they Brought you back the old cafes, who will bring you back the old friends?”
“If they burn a book, have no worries. The book will feel NO pain so neither should you! True destruction of the Qur'an cannot be done with fire; it is destroyed when we fail to remember & practice its lessons in our daily lives. If this occurs, then it is ANOTHER fire that you should truly be concerned about!”
“If they call you a dreamer, ignore them and keep dreaming. I know of a lad who was called that — he went on to become a governor of Egypt.”
“If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“If they can behave normally after breaking up the vows, they were never normal, to begin with.”
“If they can get 15 or higher, it will be a very bad night for House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan twisted himself into a pretzel by endorsing but not always supporting Donald Trump. Now, he's facing the prospect of a slimmer majority, with fewer moderates. Conservative members in the Freedom Caucus have already sent warning shots threatening Ryan's tenure as speaker.”
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
“If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”
“If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
“If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are.”
“If they can predict you, they can control you.”
Source: UNFAIR INTELLIGENCE: 25 Laws of Strategic Thinking: A Ruthless Guide to Thinking Clearly, Moving Quietly, and Winning Unfairly
“If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.”
Source: Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801
“If they can put one man on the moon, why can't they put them all there?”
Source: Charting New Waters
“If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.”
“If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.”
“If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder”
“If they can't communicate with you, then whatever they have with you isn't real.”
“If they can't figure out what pricing should be, they shouldn't be in their jobs. But if we believe they should be in their jobs, then they should be in charge or pricing.”
Source: The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“If they can’t get to Europe, they’ll find their way to a local theme-park Eiffel Tower. Even a place that we write off as “inauthentic,” they realize, can arouse emotions that are entirely authentic.”
Source: A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
“If they can’t make you bend to them, they will claim for making you stronger, the cunning foxes”
“If they can walk away from you when you're in tears, there really is nothing left to do or say.”
“If they can worship a weird creature, which is even not existed; why I must not worship a beautiful one who is already here.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.”
“If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.”
“If they can't repeat it, they didn't get it.”
Source: Pop!: Stand Out in Any Crowd