I Quotes
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“If you have given up your heart for the Tower, Roland, you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast. To be a beast is perhaps bearable, although the man who has become one will surely pay hell’s own price in the end, but if you should gain your object? What if you should, heartless, storm the Dark Tower and win it? What could you do except degenerate from beast to monster? To gain one’s object as a beast would only be bitterly comic, like giving a magnifying glass to an elephant. But to gain one’s object as a monster…To pay hell is one thing. But do you want to own it?”
Source: The Drawing of the Three
“If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.”
“If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!”
“If you have God in your heart, you have the world in your hands. If you have God in your soul, you have the universe at your feet.”
“If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.”
“If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.”
“If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor!”
“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”
Source: Hunted: A House of Night Novel
“If you have good health, praise God.”
“If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace!”
“If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.”
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Source: James and the Giant Peach
“If you have good wealth mentality.... you will generate wealth wherever you go. Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality will attract it again. If you have a lack mentality, no matter how much you receive or what financial opportunities come your way, wealth will evade you or, if it comes, it won't last.”
“If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.”
“If you have got high-ranking officials reaching down five levels in the bureaucracy to drag an analyst up to their office to berate them and threaten their jobs because they don't like the conclusions about an intelligence matter, that, in my view, is dangerous.”
“If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.”
“If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.”
“If you have great ambitions in proportion to your talents, this is ok, your talents will feed your ambitions! But if your ambitions are far beyond your talents, then you will always suffer and you will permanently anchor in the harbour of unhappiness!”
“If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.”
“If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”
“If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.”
“If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.”
“If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.”
“If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and a half - how much nothing will you have two days from then? Like three. Because three is the short version of π, and π is involved in virtually anything, in some form, if you believe what the internet tells you.”
Source: Nothing is here...
“If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.”
Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.”
“If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.”
“If you have health, you have everything.”
“If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.”
“If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.”
“If you have heard truths to offer up to someone, make sure the voice is soft, the language is beautiful, and protect the dignity of the other. When the storm clears, make sure you all see sunshine.”
“If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.”
“If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.”
“If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.”
“If you have hooked legs, wear big decolte.”
“If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account”
“If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.”
“If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.”
“If you have hurt someone and they are angry at you, you are safe from the Karmic backlash. When their mind has forgiven you, their soul will cry every once in a while. That is when Karma will come to sting you.”
“If you have imaginary ants in your mind, you will see them in your food as well.”
Source: Quantraz
“If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and rose again?’ Should any thing short of absolute perfection satisfy you? Should you not labour to ‘stand perfect and complete in all the will of God?’”
Source: Horae Homileticae: Or Discourses (principally in the Form of Skeletons) Now First Digested Into One Continued Series, and Forming a Commentary Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament; to which is Annexed, an Improved Edition of a Translation of Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: In Twenty-one Volumes. Galatians-Ephesians
“If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .”
“If you have influence with at least one person, that makes you a leader. An organization is any time two or more people are in a relationship. So, everyone is a leader in some organization or sphere in which they live, work, and play.”
Source: Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions
“If you have influence with at least one person, that makes you a leader. An organization is any time two or more people are in relationship. So, everyone is a leader in some organization or sphere in which they live, work, and play.”
Source: Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions
“If you have information that a company is not as good as its stock market valuation, you don't have a way to sell that stock unless you already own it. And so that information doesn't get incorporated in the company's stock price as fast if you don't allow short selling.”
“If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.”
“If you have inner peace, you can create peace everywhere.”