I Quotes
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“If you ever get to a wall, you just got to break that wall down and keep going, and I feel like I have come up with some conceptual songs that will really connect with people and that is something that I have been showing and improving my lyrical ability so much that I came to this realization that I also want to make music that people can connect with.”
“If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.”
“If you ever get twenty-five years [imprisonment] for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground—from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
“If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.”
“If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.”
“If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.”
“If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.”
“If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary.”
“If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.”
“If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.”
“If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person - and I think that's really important.”
“If you ever had to deal with difficult employees and used industrial relations procedures, this book is for you. If you're a manager, supervisor, legislator, trade union official or politician, you need to read this and how it impacts managers. It seems "workers" are more than accommodated. This book takes things to extremes when outdated legislation doesn't work.”
“If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.”
“If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.”
“If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.”
Source: Chekhov for the Stage: The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard
“If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.”
“If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.”
“If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen in love with the second.”
“If you ever have to give a speech, start with a joke, if you know one. For years I've been looking for the best joke in the world. I think I know what it is. I will tell it to you, but you have to help me. You have to say, "No," when I hold up my hand like this. All right? Don't let me down.
Do you know why cream is so much more expensive than milk?
AUDIENCE: No.
It is because the cows hate to squat on those bottles.”
Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
“If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.”
“If you ever have to sacrifice something good, have faith that God will reward you with something GREAT”
“If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn’t know her.”
“If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.”
“If you ever heard that old saying, where there's smoke there's fire; well that's a load of bull.”
“If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“If you ever insult my wife again,” I tell him, “I’ll take my son fishing using your eyeballs as bait.”
“Yes, sir.”
Source: Conclave
“If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”
“If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘ Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth. ‘Consider me warned,’ Percy said. ‘I missed you, too.”
“If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“If you ever live to be as old as I am you will find many things strange.'
'You never seem old.'
'It is the body that is old. Sometimes I am afraid I will break off a finger as one breaks a stick of chalk. And the spirit is no older and not much wiser.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?”
Source: The Girl at Cobalt Creek
“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.”
“If you ever looking for online relationship advice to make your personal life more happy and smoothly then contact Vancity Life Coach.”
“If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they're gone. They'll come back.”
“If you ever love something, don’t wait for the right time. Time will never be right.”
Source: YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.”
“If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.”
“If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.”
“If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.”
Source: The Women
“If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.”
Source: The Kindly Ones: A Novel
“If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.”
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping!”
“If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.”
Source: Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
“If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.”
“If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.”
“If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.”
“If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.”