I Quotes
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“If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.”
Source: The Works of John Owen
“If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves.”
“If we would think-to-speak at an adaptive, and comprehensible ear-speed of human sound, we might vastly hear so much more, than the expensive sensory gift of ocular attention, could afford.”
“If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.”
Source: The Shame of the Cities
“If we wrestle with traumas that do not want to give way and our inner little Red Riding Hood cannot get rid of the wolf's threatening giggles, we must not be afraid of opening ourselves to otherness that can trigger a salutary 'orienting reflex' propelling us into a new thinking pattern. ("Into a new life")”
“If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.”
“If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.”
“If we wrote all our past sins on one piece of paper, not a single person would end up with a blank sheet.”
Source: All of Us Are Sinners: Karma Release
“If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.”
“If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.”
“If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.”
“If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.”
“If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.”
“If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.”
Source: Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film
“If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.”
Source: The Longest Ride
“If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.”
“If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.”
“If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.”
“If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.”
“If we're a natural man, we're attracted to a woman. You are our natural partner in the act of procreation. Now there's a time and a place for everything, but when a fine-looking woman, with a fine-looking form walks down the street, a man could be working with a jackhammer, and when he spies that woman, he'll watch her as she walks. What kind of thought comes up in your mind? You don't say, "Oh, what a great creature." Like a dog you may say, "Man, I'd sure like to have some of that!" That's not what you want.”
“If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.”
“If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.”
“If we're all God's children, what's so special about Jesus?”
“If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?”
“If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down”
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
“If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.”
Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
“If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.”
“If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.”
“If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.”
“If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.”
“If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?”
“If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us.”
“If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we've got to be humble, and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom.”
“If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.”
“If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.”
“If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.”
“If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?”
“If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.”
“If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“If we're concerned about volatility of earnings because we want some more stability in our lives, then let's create, instead of an unemployment insurance system, an earnings insurance system that will moderate the volatility for a certain period of time until we get back on our feet.”
“If we're constantly suppressing our strong, heavy emotions - like fear and anger and outrage and sadness - it weakens us. But when we're not afraid to confront the hard emotions - when we don't turn away from the pain and the suffering of the world - it builds the confidence that we can do whatever we need to do.”
“If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.”
“If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”
“If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.”
“If we're doing this for ten hours, I'm going to need a little incentive to stay motivated." Patch hooked his elbow around my neck and dragged me into a kiss. "Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his eyebrows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter. Two kisses per strip. Any objections?" I pulled on an innocent face. "None whatsoever.”
“If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.”
“If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.”
“If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative