I Quotes
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“If we were on Friends, who do you think 'd be?" I wonder aloud.
"I think you'd be Phoebe because you're quirky and creative," Chloe tells me.
"Really? I think I'd be Monica because I'm crazy and neurotic," I say. "Jo, who do you think I am? Phoebe or Monica?"
"Neither," Joni answers. "You're Ross."
"What?!" Call me dramatic, but I've never been more offended in my life. "How am I Ross?"
"Because you've had the same pathetic crush on the same blond ditz your entire life. And you like dinosaurs."
"Everyone likes dinosaurs," I argue. Then I realize what else she's insinuating. "Wait a minute. Are you saying that Sam is Rachel?"
Joni shrugs.
"If the designer shoe fits."
Oh my God.”
Source: Spotlight
“If we were on Friends, who do you think I'd be?" I wonder aloud.
"I think you'd be Phoebe because you're quirky and creative," Chloe tells me.
"Really? I think I'd be Monica because I'm crazy and neurotic," I say. "Jo, who do you think I am? Phoebe or Monica?"
"Neither," Joni answers. "You're Ross."
"What?!" Call me dramatic, but I've never been more offended in my life. "How am I Ross?"
"Because you've had the same pathetic crush on the same blond ditz your entire life. And you like dinosaurs."
"Everyone likes dinosaurs," I argue. Then I realize what else she's insinuating. "Wait a minute. Are you saying that Sam is Rachel?"
Joni shrugs.
"If the designer shoe fits."
Oh my God.”
Source: Spotlight
“If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love.”
Source: One Long Thread
“If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.”
“If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?”
“If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.”
“If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier.”
“If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.”
“If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”
“If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“If we were talking about wise, I wouldn't be here at all.”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.”
Source: You
“If we were the best hope the human race had for its salvation, things were more fucked up than I’d thought.”
Source: Apocalipsis Z: Los días oscuros
“If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about Portugal? What about Italy? What about the whole of the Eurozone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice about what has to happen.”
“If we were the same we'd be indifferent.”
“If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.”
“If we were to abuse our children, Social Services would show up at our doors. If we were to abuse our pets, the Humane Society would come to take us away. But there is no Creativity Patrol or Soul Police to intervene if we insist on starving our own souls. There is just us.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“If we were to actually walk a mile in the other person’s shoes, there’s a good chance that we’d end up opting to live the rest of our lives walking barefoot.”
“If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.”
“If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.”
Source: Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness
“If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today - not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.”
“if we were to build a Great Pyramid today, we would need a lot of patience. In preparation for his book "5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster", Richard Noone asked Merle Booker, technical director of the Indiana Limestone Institute of America, to prepare a time study of what it would take to quarry, fabricate, and ship enough limestone to duplicate the Great Pyramid. Using the most modern quarrying equipment available for cutting, lifting, and transporting the stone, Booker estimated that the present-day Indiana limestone industry would need to triple its output, and it would take the entire industry, which as I have said includes thirty-three quarries, twenty-seven years to fill the order for 131,467,940 cubic feet of stone.
These estimates were based on the assumption that production would proceed without problems. Then we would be faced with the task of putting the limestone blocks in place. The level of accuracy in the base of the Great Pyramid is astounding, and is not demanded, or even expected, by building codes today. Civil engineer Roland Dove, of Roland P. Dove & Associates, explained that .02 inch per foot variance was acceptable in modern building foundations. When I informed him of the minute variation in the foundation of the Great Pyramid, he expressed disbelief and agreed with me that in this particular phase of construction, the builders of the pyramid exhibited a state of the art that would be considered advanced by modern standards.”
Source: The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
“If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.”
“If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure.”
“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”
“If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.”
“If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these beliefs as if they were true because we have never identified them clearly enough to question them, to challenge them.”
Source: Your Redefining Moments: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
“If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.”
“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.”
Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity
“If we were to go back in time 100 years and ask a farmer what he'd like if he could have anything, he'd probably say he wanted a horse that was twice as strong and ate half as many oats. He would not say he wanted a tractor. The point is, technology changes things so fast that many people aren't sure what the best solutions to their problems might be.”
“If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.”
“If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.”
“If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.”
“If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.”
“If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.”
“If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other.”
“If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.”
“If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?”
“If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.”
“If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'”
“If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.”
Source: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
“If we were to realise the perilous situation we were in on account of our childhoods, we might exercise extreme vigilance around people we were insitinctively attracted to. We might assume that almost anyone we felt mysteriously and powerfully drawn to would probably turn out to be wrong. We might learn to resist falling in love at first sight- and would be just as careful about swiftly falling into hatred. We would undestand that we needed to fight our insticts at every turn, because of how badly our pasts have corrupted them.”
Source: How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships
“If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.”
“If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.”
“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.”
Source: Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)
“If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.”
“If we were to sit and discuss abortion and legalizing marijuana and gay marriage and all those things, you'd be surprised where you'd see me on the side of some of that stuff. People get their opinions - as soon as you're a real flag-waving patriot, then all of a sudden you're a conservative.”