I Quotes
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“If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.”
“If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!”
“If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a bright opportunity to influence users. Content is not a nice-to-have extra. Content is a star of the user experience show. Let’s make content shine.”
“If we continue, we die," Baylon said.
Jordyn touched his face. "If I don't have you inside me, I die.”
Source: Dark Alpha's Claim
“if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well.”
“If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"”
“If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind.”
“If we control the ball, they pay.”
“If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.”
“If we could actually hear God talking, making His will manifest in words of the Hebrew language, what would He sound like? Since poetry is our best human model of intricately rich communication, not only solemn, weighty, and forceful but also densely woven with complex internal connections, meanings, and implications, it makes sense that divine speech should be represented as poetry. Such speech is directed to the concrete situation of a historical audience, but the form of the speech exhibits the historical indeterminacy of the language of poetry, which helps explain why these discourses have touched the lives of millions of readers far removed in time, space, and political predicament from the small groups of ancient Hebrews against whom Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and their confreres originally inveighed.”
Source: The Art of Biblical Poetry
“If we could adequately access where we are in life currently and persistently move towards our desired state of development in our profession and character, then we certainly achieve success”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“If we could all become friends to the people in our lives, we could really make a great difference in their lives.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.”
“If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.”
“If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“If we could all see racial or religious differences from the eyes of a child.”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.”
“If we could all understand that our dreams are still alive although we abandoned them, it would be easier for us to have the courage to chase them again and bring them to fruition.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.”
Source: Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul
“If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“If we could be heroes, if just for one day.”
“If we could be humble enough to submit our passions, sentiments and even weaknesses to God Almighty, he would successfully convert them to something positive that would eventually glorify Him.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If we could be mindful of how short our time is, we might learn how precious each day is.”
Source: Benedictus: A Book of Blessings
“If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.”
Source: A Way of Being Free
“If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value”
Source: The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
“If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.”
“If we could become accustomed to this kind of reasoning, we could recognize that what determines our usual way of thinking, not necessarily perception, which we often condition by thoughts, is the paradigm accepted as “absolute truth.” However, it may not be the truth. It is impossible to imagine anything as absolutely dead except something nonexistent, which is, on the other hand, not dead but only nonexistent.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications... That sect [Jews] had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust... Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.
[Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820]”
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.”
“If we could bottle resilience such as yours, it would be a powerful elixir, indeed.”
Source: Esme's Gift
“If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.”
Source: Eclipse
“If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.”
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
“If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.”
“If we could combine Starbucks' spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.”
“If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we could touch completely, there would be no need.”
Source: Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
“If we could conceive an incarnation of dissonance - and what is man but that? - then, to be able to live this dissonance would require a glorious illusion which would spread a veil of beauty over its peculiar nature.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy
“If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'”
Source: Truth for Today: A Daily Touch of God's Grace
“If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.”
“If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.”
“If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.”
“If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.”
“If we could do something that enhances the body's immune system here on Earth, it would be a tremendous step forward in the fight against disease and cancer and other things.”
“If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems were solved.”
“If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.”
“If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from
now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.”
“If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.”