I Quotes
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“If things just keep going along as smoothly as if we're on a railway track, reassured by the regularity and predictability of that clickety-clack, clickety clack, why would we bother with introspection about the meaning and purpose of it all, let alone the direction we're taking? p37”
Source: The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism
“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the southern landscape”
Source: Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
“If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.”
“If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.”
Source: The Consequences Series: Box Set
“If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against the right of asylum promulgated in both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.”
“If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.”
“If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.”
“If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.”
“If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.”
“If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.”
“If things were simple, word would have gotten around.”
Source: Limited Inc
“If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“If things were up to you, if you were the ruler of the world, languages would be unspoken. Instead of speaking, people would carefully consider the thoughts they want to express and then write them down. That way, there would be no misunderstandings based on unintended tonal shifts, unintended emphasis, unintended facial expressions.”
Source: Life Hacks for a Little Alien
“If think the pig was terrified because he was fully aware that after segment he was going to be fed to Al Roker.”
“If thinking and reason crack under pressure of emotional convulsions or when commissioned facts are resulting from fibs and fake constructions, truth may be in great peril. ( ”Blame storming”)”
“If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.”
Source: On the Soul
“If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved”
“If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.”
Source: Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers
“If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.”
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.”
“If Thirty Seconds to Mars was a human being then he fans would be the veins and the band would be the heart. The fans are what connect the essence of the music around the world and keep the us alive.”
“If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."”
“If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."”
“If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things may be published as quickly as possible. The more others build on my work the happier I shall be.”
“If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.”
Source: Butterfly Stories: A Novel
“If this airplane goes up in flames, we’ll all go up in flames. If it crashes, we’ll crash with it. And if it lands safely on the other side of the ocean, we’ll land right there with it, and we’ll all wait, along with everyone, for our baggage to come out on the carousel. A friend assured me that as soon as we land, this pressure in my chest will vanish. He’s the same friend who told me almost two years ago that the war would be over soon. He’s a good friend, but not the most on-point. I send my wife another selfie from the taxi to the hotel. I’m in the back seat. Eyes open wide at the camera. Completely dry. Nothing to worry about, honey, it’s all good.”
“If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.”
Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
“If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.”
Source: Dracula
“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
“If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming”
“If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings”
Source: The Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“If this be treason, make the most of it!”
“If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?”
“If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament what man has made of man?”
“If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine”
“If this book ends up in your hands, it means all the forces of the Universe have conspired for the crossing of our paths—the meeting of our consciousness.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”
Source: Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero
“If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.”
“If this can no longer resonate
No longer make my heart vibrate
Then like this may be how I die my first death”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.”
“If this child is part of The Plan, then The Plan was that I would be raped. If this child is not part of The Plan, then my rape was a violation of The Plan, in which case The Plan is not a Plan at all, but a Polite fucking Suggestion”
Source: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die.”
Source: The Cellist of Sarajevo
“If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it ..I'll be laughing when I'm old and and all my programmer friends have gone alexic from staring at too many tiny pixels”
“If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.”
“If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.”
Source: Shanghai Nobody
“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board.”
Source: The Making of Europe's Constitution
“If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel