I Quotes
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“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.”
“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”
“If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be a new party of nationwide and non-sectional principles, a party where the titular national chiefs and the real state leaders shall be in genuine accord, a party in whose counsels the people shall be supreme, a party that shall represent in the nation and the several states alike the same cause, the cause of human rights and of governmental efficiency. At present both the old parties are controlled by professional politicians in the interests of the privileged classes, and apparently each has set up as its ideal of business and political development a government by financial despotism tempered by make-believe political assassination. Democrat and Republican alike, they represent government of the needy many by professional politicians in the interests of the rich few. This is class government, and class government of a peculiarly unwholesome kind.”
“If this cursed and fallen world
holds such beauty as what I see,
Imagine the beauty of paradise
that's gladly waiting for me.”
“If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.”
“If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.”
“If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.”
“If this ego did not exist, then the world would not be this crazy. It is due to the ego that there is misery. Keep doing your work; there is no problem with that. But the ego needlessly stirs up mischief.”
Source: Avoid Clashes!
“If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates.”
“If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.”
“If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.”
Source: Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...
“If this fame, which people call my lucky break,
were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care”
“If this generation doesn't end...
then change towards a better one will be delayed.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.”
“If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?”
“If this god exists, then let him seek my forgiveness, for he watched in silence while I suffered. And if he will not, then let him collapse into nothing, as worthless as his absence.”
“If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!”
Source: Against A Dark Background
“If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.”
“If this goes right, we'll figure out something else for the future.”
“If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or worked for this country or have - or - and is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Africa and Asia to try and buy friendship of people who will never be friendly toward them, then they should be even more quick to spend some - whatever amount of money is necessary to get inside of their house straight, before it's too late.”
“If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.”
“If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.”
“If this had been France, and the Queen had been Louis XIV, it would have been done by now-but it was England, Parliament had its knobby fingers around the Monarch’s throat, and Whigs and Tories were joined in an eternal shin-kicking contest to determine which faction should have the honor of throttling her Majesty, and how hard.”
Source: Solomon’s Gold
“If this had been last week, she would have taken a picture of this closet and then slumped into a chair and spent too much time composing a message to accompany it. Now, she had neither the time nor the emotional bandwidth to do it.”
Source: Once Upon a Sunset
“If this had ever happened before, it couldn't be happening now. That's what they mean by 'once in a lifetime'.”
“If this happens in my life, I will live happily thereafter.' No. This will give happiness only for a few days. Then things will be same again and you will pin your hopes of happiness on something else. Learn to live the present moment.”
“If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.”
“If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.”
“If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.”
“If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.”
“If this is a dream, may we never wake up!”
“if this is a dream,
then look in my eye's,
am i asleep,
no i'm alive,
just can't believe that,
this is my life,
'cause every moment is just so wild”
“If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.”
“If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.”
“If this is a lynch mob, you didn’t bring enough people,” I said.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic
“If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.”
“If this is a shortcut," I said, "then we will be bypassing a great deal of Where the Trees Have Eyes."
"Hum!" Snowbell said. "I suppose so. The Weeping Mines, for one--- terrible waterfalls where the high ones harvest their silver. The Gap of Wick, which a nasty boggart has claimed for his own. Also the darkest part of the forest, the lands of the hag-headed deer, which they call the Poetry. And many other perils besides."
He said it in his usual bragging tones, assuming that I would be nothing but grateful. And I was, I suppose, but another part of me wept at the thought of finding my way to the Silva Lupi, a place of scholarly legend, so magnificently fascinating and terrible, and then hurrying through like a busy shopper at a market.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.”
“If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.”
“If this is all we get, then let's take it. I want to be fearless and free," she says, giving me a look, daring me. "It's just life, Will. It'll be over before we know it.”
Source: Five Feet Apart
“If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
“If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.”
Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4
“If this is death, it is easier than life.”
“If this is dying, Chloe thought, I'd like to do it again sometime.”
Source: Dark of Night - Flesh and Fire
“If this is dying, I don't think much of it.”
“If this is for real,
Please don't!!!
We are all struggling one way or the other, a lot of pains on told, a lot of tears retained, a lot of actions revoked, a lot of plans annulled, if am to continue, I definitely have enough words to continue, but non can qualify my thoughts, non can transcribe my very mind, so, in short, don't give up, it's just some few more steps, don't be swallowed up”
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”