I Quotes
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“If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.”
“If two opposing politicians both claim their opponent is lying, remember that two things can be true simultaneously.”
“If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.”
Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation
“If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!”
“If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible.”
“If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that we have here at the close of the twentieth century to move out into space and they see that we didn't do anything with it ... I don't want history to judge us on having blown this opportunity, and I think history will judge us on this more than on any other issue.”
“If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.”
Source: Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms
“If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.”
Source: Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
“If two parties, instead of being a bank and an individual, were an individual and an individual, they could not inflate the circulating medium by a loan transaction, for the simple reason that the lender could not lend what he didn't have, as banks can do. Only commercial banks and trust companies can lend money that they manufacture by lending it.”
“If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.”
“If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love”
“If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.”
“If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.”
“If two people are meant for one another, that doesn't mean that they have to rush and be together right away. Real love takes time to grow, just like how it takes time to grow from children to adults.”
Source: Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
“If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“If two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.”
“If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.”
Source: My Sister, My Spouse: A Biography of Lou Andreas-Salomé
“If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.”
“If two people can be in silence without any thoughts, it is the highest form of union. It makes you experience the divine oneness. You realize that the same power is looking through your eyes and your lover's eyes at the same time.”
“If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.”
“If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.”
“If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook dinner; somebody does have to do garbage duty. We need to take some time and give some thought, without being angry, to just thinking about what these new structures are going to look like.”
“If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.”
“If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.”
Source: Girl in Hyacinth Blue
“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?”
“If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!”
“If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what.”
“If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it.”
“If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in a marriage when your mind and heart refuse to fully commit to them.”
“If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want. And I absolutely believe that.”
“If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.”
“If two people were present when a grenade was exploded and one of those people lost his life, which of the two would be more likely to have exploded the grenade, the one who lived or the one who died?”
“The one who lived, of course.”
“And why do you say, ‘of course?’”
“To put this into lay terminology, the one who pulls the pin and throws the grenade has the element of surprise, knows which way he’s going to throw the grenade and approximately how long he has to get the hell out of there.”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“If two people who love each other Ares soul mates, then there will always be a empty hole in my soul waiting for you..”
“If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.”
Source: The play as theater
“If two people who love eachother are soul mates, then there will always be a empty hole in my soul waiting for you..”
“If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then what is the value of that label in describing their symptoms, deciding their treatment, or predicting their outcome, and would it not be more useful simply to describe their problems as they actually are? And if schizophrenia does not exist in nature, then how can researchers possibly find its cause or correlates? If psychiatric research has made so little progress in recent decades, it is in large part because everyone has been barking up the wrong tree. It is not a question of getting a bigger and better scanner, but of going right back to the drawing board.
What’s more, medical-type labels can be as harmful as they are hollow. By reducing rich, varied, and complex human experiences to nothing more than a mental disorder, they not only sideline and trivialize those experiences but also imply an underlying defect that then serves as a pseudo-explanation for the person’s disturbed behaviour. This demeans and disempowers the person, who is deterred from identifying and addressing the important life problems that underlie his distress.”
Source: The Meaning of Madness
“If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.”
“If two separate spirits have come together,
there will be no other separation.
If two separate bodies have come together,
surely there will be a separation.
If a body and another spirit have come together,
surely there has been a separation.”
Source: a Painting a Poem
“If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.”
“If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“If two types of attachments are pulling you in two opposite direction and you're not able to decide which way to go, take a break from both attachments. Conflict will automatically resolve. A few months of solitude can save you from lifetime of complications.”
“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”
Source: Peter's people
“If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.”
“If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.”
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
“If Tyson Griffin was a girl, I'd say he has a badonkadonk.”
“If u are tree, i'll be your shadow,
If you free, i'll be your hobbie,
If you fly,i'll be your wings,
If you cry,i'll be your tears,
If you are high,i'll be Your wine,
If you are mad,I'll be You Love,
If You are Life,I'll Be your Soul!
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