I Quotes
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“If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.”
Source: Rainshadow Road
“If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.”
“If you have to twist and bend,
When lending money to family and friends,
Just say 'no,' and don't pretend.”
“If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.”
Source: What a Boy Wants
“If you have to wait for a long time, you have to seize hold of the waiting or it will become destructive. If you let things slide, your consciousness will waver, awakening fear and restlessness, then depression strikes, and you're pulled down.”
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow
“If you have to walk along a dark mountain path, don’t you prefer to have a flashlight to shine on the path ahead? I would suggest that it is possible to have that flashlight in life all the time. What does a flashlight give us? Light.
That is, a flashlight sheds light. It is like the faculty of attention—if we turn our full attention to something, we learn more about that thing. We are seeing it with more light. Our attention is our ‘flashlight.’ So it’s all about how much and how fun an attention we consciously bring to life. This quality of attention doesn’t make us hesitant, or slow to decide, particularly—just as the flashlight doesn’t make us hang back on the trail. So, how do we get to the better quality of attention? With attention! That is, we turn our attention on our attention; we start by trying to see how we don’t pay attention. We sort of keep that light on ourselves. ‘Know thyself’ has been an honored ancient teaching, and it’s still a cornerstone of the world’s greatest philosophies. If you watch yourself honestly, in a detached way—not guilt-tripping yourself when you screw up—you gradually learn where it was that you were just blundering along, reacting sort of mechanically, and being asleep even as you were in your waking day. Another way to make this happen is by returning your whole attention to the present—to what’s happening now, in this moment, and this moment, and on—within yourself and around you.”
“If you have to walk in a dark and cold street and there is nothing to change that, all that's left is to change your mind! When your mind changes, darkness and cold do not change, but your stamina against darkness and cold does!”
“If you have to wear a hazmat suit to raise crops, why would you ever eat them? If you’re afraid of getting that crap on your skin, how much more insane would it be to put it in your mouth! Seriously? I often wonder, and I wish someone would research it if they haven’t already, whether the CEOs of Monsanto, Dupont, etc., eat GMO products and feed them to their families, or if they send out their ‘personal shoppers’ to the local farmer’s market to bring home fresh, organic produce every week? I suspect the latter. I’m quite sure they all have reverse osmosis water systems in their mansions. Let me put it bluntly, if I haven’t been clear so far. The day the CEO of Monsanto guzzles a gallon of Roundup, is the day I’ll consider buying their products, maybe.”
Source: Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
“If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.”
“If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.”
“If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep but don't ever give up. You will get there.”
“If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.”
Source: The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014
“If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!”
“If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.”
“If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.”
“If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.”
“If you have too much or too little of something in your character, you are often seen as an anomaly - you then have a disorder. The Spartans were diagnosed with too much virtue. Thus, she was hated by all her neighbours.”
“If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all.”
“If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.”
“If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.”
“If you have traveled on a jet airplane, then you have had a high powered radiation exposure that you have no genetic adaptation to.”
“If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around.”
“If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.”
“If you have trouble with finding things you should get into some kind of therapy with a good therapist if you need, I mean I just believe in therapy for everybody. I really do. I don't think any body can escape it.”
“If you have trouble withholding personal information from nosy questioners, you need to get over this. This is how abusers take advantage of you in relationships and in life.”
Source: Girl, You Deserve More: How to Break His Spell over You, Escape Your Toxic Partner, and Become Independent
“If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated.”
“If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.”
“If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.”
“If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.”
“If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.”
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky”
Source: That Was Then, This Is Now
“If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.”
Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
“If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.”
“If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.”
“If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.”
“If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.”
“If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?”
“If you have unfilled dreams and visions of greater prosperity and success tucked in a corner of your mind, don't keep them there any longer. Dare to bring them out and dust them off.”
Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
“If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.”
“If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.”
“If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.”
“If you have used your knowledge to bring others down, you are building a Tower of Babel. But if you bow your knowledge to lift someone who is wounded, you are building the Kingdom of God.”
“If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.”
“If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah.”
“If you have very strong and free wings but still do not fly away to somewhere else, there must be an invisible love-chain that ties you to where you are!”
“If you have voluntarily saddled yourself with a dog that you’ll have to walk twice a day, come rain wind or snow, that is as good as having put a leash around your own neck.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“If you have vowed to take someone's hand, then do not let go. Remain loyal until the end.”
Source: The Religion of God (Divine Love): Untold Mysteries and Secrets of God
“If you have vowed to take someone's hand, then do not let go. Remain loyal until the end.' - HDE Gohar Shahi”
Source: The Religion of God (Divine Love): Untold Mysteries and Secrets of God