I Quotes
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“If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten”
Source: The King of Rhyme
“If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.”
“If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.”
Source: JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more
“If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.”
“If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.”
“If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!”
“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”
Source: Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn
“If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman... Don't pray. Learn to use guns.”
“If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.”
“If those Nina and Leo fanfic writers could see us now," she said.
She grabbed the bottom of his shirt, and he helped raise it up and over his head. "Oh, I'm pretty sure I read a few that involved a kitchen...”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.”
“If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.”
“If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.”
“If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.”
“If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.”
Source: Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty
“If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.”
“If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly.”
“If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the dependency.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.”
Source: The Lost Wife
“If those were Donald Trump people doing that after a Hillary Clinton election, I think a lot of people be - a lot of that - there would be a lot more anger in the media at the fact that they're protesting a legitimately decided election.”
“If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]”
Source: The Art of War
“If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.”
Source: The Complete Art of War
“If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.”
“If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?”
“If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.”
“If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.”
“If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!”
“If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
“If those who know leave those who don't, don't....... the world will turn to a school teaching ignorance.”
“If those who oppose Freethought did not strive to force all to think as they do, accept Christ by faith, believe the bible to be infallible, keep Sunday as a holy day, and work for a future reward, then our fight would be at an end instantly. Liberty of Conscience is all we ask - not control of any class, creed, or sect.”
“If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.”
“If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.”
“If those who voice opposition to Pope Francis and the direction in which he is leading the church come from other nations but their statements are published on American media platforms, it may appear that they originate in this country or reflect our sentiments. We have our own dissident voices to be sure, but too frequently every challenging voice that criticizes the Holy Father and is broadcast on American media is identified as American in origin.”
“If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.”
“If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.”
“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”
“If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.”
“If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.”
Source: The Good News of God: Sermons
“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.”
“If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.”
“If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.”
“If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.”
Source: Sermons
“If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.”
Source: The Complete Works of W. Shakspere: Illustrated with Many Valuable Literary Notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Drake, Chalmers, Coleridge, Lamb, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Ch. Knight, and Other Distinguished Commentators with Large Introductory Notices Prefixed to Each Play ...
“If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.”
“If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.”
“If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume
“If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.”