I Quotes
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“If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.”
“If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.”
Source: 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“If you didn’t fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.”
Source: Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
“If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do”
Source: I Heart New York
“If you didn’t get a little wet crossing the river you might have crossed it, but you didn’t experience it.”
“If you didn't have a real good imagination you'd probably think those noises were the sounds of some kid blowing a horn for the first time, but I knew better than that. I could tell those were the squeaks and squawks of one door closing and another one opening.”
Source: Bud, Not Buddy
“If you didn’t have your guns, you still had your mouth. Of course, you had to be careful how you fired that off.”
Source: Coilhunter
“If you didn't know at the time that a mistake you made in the past was a mistake, you can forgive yourself about it today!”
“If you didn’t know, lack of sleep….. excuse me….. sleep deprived plus other stuff*** can manifest into a psychotic break.”
“If you didn't let people get close to you, they couldn't hurt you when they left.”
Source: A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
“If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.”
Source: The Reader
“If you didn't love your past, when it was present... there is no sense in loving it and being with it today....”
“If you didn't pay attention to the buoys and markers, you'd hit something. Not enough people paid attention. Our marinas were swamped with repairs.”
Source: The Ruins of Woodman's Village
“if you didn't trust yourself, who else will do”
Source: Stop Living Behind Windows.: Guidelines to Own a Prominent Personality in the Community, Get Rid of all Your Fears and Start a New Life.
“If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?”
Source: Cerulean Sins
“If you didn't want to know things, you didn't have to know them. Things didn't become facts until someone actually spoke them. Until then, you could just go on acting just the way you had been acting and even if you suspected there was something that would change everything, you didn't have to acknowledge it; you didn't have to let it in.”
Source: Returning to Shore
“If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.”
Source: Lock and Key
“If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.”
“If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.”
Source: A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist
“If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?”
“If you didn't get it right and then you have to release a director's cut to undo what the studio made you release, I don't know, either it's some marketing thing for them to get more money or the director didn't do his job.”
“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”
“If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.”
“If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.”
“If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.”
“If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.”
Source: Heart-Shaped Box
“If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.”
“If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?”
“If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you?”
“If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.”
“If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.”
“If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.”
“If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.”
“If you didn't know what you were trying to do, [Robert von Neumann] wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and walk away. So you very quickly learned to think that you'd better be attempting to do something in that painting class.”
“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”
Source: Dreamland
“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
Source: Plain Truth
“If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.”
“If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!”
“If you didn’t believe it before — and it’s easy to understand how you might have been sceptical on this point — if you didn’t believe it before, you can absolutely believe it now: New York City is the greatest city in the world.”
“If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.”
“If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.”
“If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.”
“If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.”
“If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.”
“If you die, angel, it means I'm already dead.”
Source: Breaking Point
“If you die before you die, you won’t die when you die.”
“If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.”
“If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you.”
Source: The Beautiful Pretender
“If you die, I die with you.”
“If you die, I’m dating your corpse.”
“I’m being cremated.”
“I’ll date your urn.”
“My urn already has a boyfriend. They’re really serious too.”
Cooper laughed against my neck then wrapped himself around my waist, swallowing me up with his warm embrace. “My pop has my mom’s name on his wrist,” Cooper whispered against my cheek. “Underneath, he has my name along with the lesser crap kids he got stuck with.”
“I’m in college,” I blurted out.
“Yeah, I remember you mentioning that.”
“Tattoos. Kids. Dating my corpse. Seems serious.”
Leaning back, Cooper adjusted me so I rested against his chest. “I always planned to settle down when I was an old fart like my pop. Meet some cute piece of jailbait and make a few bad seeds plus one decent kid I could trust with the family business. Instead, here I am not even done with college with a tattoo of my girl’s name on my wrist.”
“You could change your mind.”
“I won’t. You’re a keeper.”
“I could change my mind,” I said, wiggling my brows at him.
“Who would you replace me with? Seriously, look around and see what shit pickings you have to choose from. I’m the best you’ll ever do, baby.”
“You are pretty sexy. Tall too. Yeah, I can see keeping you around.”
A grinning Cooper glanced at Aaron. “I’m so whipped.”
“It’s pretty nauseating, yeah.”
Source: Damaged and the Beast