I Quotes
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“If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.”
“If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.”
Source: Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death
“If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“If what God says is the truest thing about us, then it makes sense to follow him and accept our As-Is condition as the starting point. Thomas Merton said, 'The reason we never enter into the deepest reality of our relationship with God is that we so seldom acknowledge our utter nothingness before him.' If we confess the truth about ourselves, there's every reason to fear God will say, 'Yeah, that's right; and anotherthing...' and we're fairly sure there will be another thing. We are like people afraid to tell the doctor where we really hurt because we fear we may be sicker than we think.
We are sicker than we think. We're dying and, crazily, running from the healer because we're ashamed, because we hate ourselves for all we are and all we're not.”
“If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?”
“If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.”
“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”
Source: Sea Storm
“If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.”
“If what I do prove well, it won't advance.
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.”
“If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?”
“If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.”
“If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.”
“If what I think is God should come down today and says "I'm God, or the thing you call God, and you're never going to do any more movies. You're never going to do television. You're never going to do theater again in your life," I would just say "What are we doing? What is the next step?" That's how I try to approach it.”
“If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.”
“If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.”
“If ‘what is’ defines my view of the world, then ‘what could be’ will become an ideal with no breath of life in it. Hence, I refuse to leave something so lofty without the ability to breath, for once it is breathing it will start running. And I can think of few things more electrifying as an ideal that is running over ‘what is’ as it is raising up ‘what will be.”
“If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.”
“If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?”
Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
“If what keeps you up at night will not add value to your life now or in the afterlife, you are wasting your time. You must ensure that whatever keeps you up at night is worth your time.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.”
“If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.”
Source: Gertrude
“If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.”
“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”
“If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.”
“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”
“If what's often referred to as "the greats," (who weren't likely pasting their own likeness and words to walls and posts in public squares), are quoted for not necessarily, historical contributions, acts, deeds, art and writings, but for wisdom - then what other than self-aggrandizing, do we refer to those seeking notoriety by repeatedly quoting themselves?”
“If what's often referred to as "the greats," (who weren't likely pasting their own likeness and words to walls and posts in public squares), are quoted for not necessarily, historical contributions, via acts, deeds, art and writings, but for wisdom - then what other than self-aggrandizing, do we refer to those seeking notoriety by repeatedly quoting themselves?”
“If what she wants is the Rising, I will help her reach it.”
Source: Crossed
“If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did live forever.”
“If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?”
“If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.”
“If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.”
Source: On the Beach
“If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.”
Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka
“If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.”
Source: OUT OF THE EARTH
“If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough”
“If what we are doing isn't enough for you, I need you to tell me now.”
Source: Broken
“If what we believe isn't challenged, how do we really know what we believe?”
“If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.”
Source: Circles on the Water
“If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.”
Source: The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
“If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.”
“If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!”
“If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.”
Source: Canopus in Argos: Archives
“If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.”
“If what we want doesn’t stand up to the truth, we will likely demand that it kneel to the lies of our truth.”
“If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.”
“If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.”
Source: A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass