I Quotes
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“If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.”
“If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.”
Source: An autobiography
“If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.”
Source: Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs
“If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's really not much fun having an adventure with someone you're not in love with.”
“If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.”
“If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury.”
“If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.”
“If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.”
“If you loved, sacrifice became less a noble thing and more a matter of course. You did it because you would not be happy otherwise. And because you would not be happy otherwise, the sacrifice was no sacrifice!”
“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”
Source: Mercy
“If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.”
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!”
“If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.”
Source: The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond
“If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.”
Source: Anne Stuart The House of Rohan Box Set: The Wicked House of Rohan\Ruthless\Reckless\Breathless\Shameless
“If you lust for power, she will swallow you in an instant and make you her servant.”
“If you mad at your eager, it will travel you to success”
“If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.”
“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“If you made a million dollars today what would you do with it? Start planning for the opportunity before it comes. Otherwise you may be that fool who parts ways with his money.”
“If you made a mistake, it’s ok. At least you tried.”
Source: 10 Alone
“If you made a movie that no man in the world went near, but every woman in the world went to, you'd have the highest grossing movie of all time. You'd make trillions of dollars. But I don't want to make movies that are just for the ladies. I don't want to ghettoize any audience that way.”
“If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.”
“If you made difference of opinion, there where would Soul reside? Where there is difference of opinion, there is no Soul, and where there is Soul, there is no difference of opinion. Soul can never manifest where there is difference of opinion. Where there is egoism, there is opinion.”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“If you made the baby for yourself and Alec, you can tell me,” said Robert. “I’m a very broad-minded man. Or—I’m trying to be. I’d like to be. I would understand.”
“If I made . . . the . . . baby . . . ?” Magnus repeated.
He was not certain where to start. He had imagined Robert Lightwood knew how babies were made.
“Magically,” Robert whispered.
“I am going to pretend you never said that to me,” said Magnus. “I am going to pretend we never had this conversation.”
Source: Born to Endless Night
“If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.”
“If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.”
Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.”
“If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.”
“If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
“If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.”
“If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.”
“If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.”
“If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.”
“If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.”
“If you make a choice to walk into the darkness, eventually you may come to know that love is the invisible glue that binds, and light is the container everything is held in. Darkness is a temporary illusion, but the light is ever present.”
“If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it.”
“If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.”
“If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.”
“If you make a decision that from here onward you will give the majority of your attention to happy thoughts, you will begin a process of purifying your body. Those happy thoughts will supply your body with the greatest health-booster you could possibly give it.
There are endless excuses not to be happy. But if you put happiness off by saying "I'll be happy when..." you'll not only be delaying happiness for the rest of your life, you'll also be diminishing the health of your body. Happiness is your body's miracle elixir, so be happy NOW, no excuses!”
Source: How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.
“If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.”
“If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.”
“If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.”
“If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.”
“If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.”
“If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.”
“If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.”
“If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.”
“If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.”
“If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.”