I Quotes
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“If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.”
“If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.”
“If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.”
“If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.”
“If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.”
“If you actually do something you love it's a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.”
“If you actually get that you're not entitled to be loved, not by one person, not by anybody, and if you get that and then you look at people who love you - who love you - who think, my life is better because you, you are in it - that they get up and think, my whole world is better because you're in it, that for some reason they love you, and that they walk this world when you're not around thinking, but you're in it, and they come home and they want to call you, they want to come home and see you, your face - you can never make a person love you but somehow they do.”
“If you actually have to engage with somebody who's superior to you and actually battle with them, struggle with them, I think it's more interesting, and funnier for the audience.”
“If you actually just treat people as if they're already in the movement, they're already alongside this movement, and just let them enter the conversation midstream, it's actually more effective.”
“If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.”
“If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.”
“If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.”
“If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand.”
“If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.”
“If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!”
“If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
“If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.”
“If you actually want to tackle climate crisis, then instead of yelling at the politicians like a hysterical Karen and obstructing traffic, educate the masses on clean energy and get involved in startups working on affordable clean energy solutions.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.”
“If you add a roof made of grass to a house made of wood in the forest, the forest will feel happier! If you make nature happy, it will make you happy too!”
“If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.”
“If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.”
“If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.”
Source: Katie in Love
“If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does”
“If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.”
“If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.”
“If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.”
“If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don’t stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.”
Source: Marsden on Marsden
“If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.”
“If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.”
“If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.”
Source: Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams
“If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.”
“If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.”
Source: Fear and Trembling: A Novel
“If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.”
“if you adopt a sufficiently profound mode of being, if you attempt to do that, then the mere act of lifting up that weight is enough to justify the fact that you are insufficient and mortal and bound by tragedy”
“If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.”
“If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.”
“If you advocate for the censorship of speech that does not expressly incite violence, limit your own vocabulary to a set number of words for one week. Cease to use several common words or phrases you often use and watch as your ability to communicate and think diminish. Now do you still want censorship knowing it is not just the limiting of speech but thought? If you do, you may wish to look inward about why oppressive impulses come so easily when you disagree with others.”
“If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.”
“If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .”
Source: Trapped
“If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.”
“If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.”
“If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with”
“If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck.”
“If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.”
“If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.”
“If you aim at it, you can achieve it.”