I Quotes
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“If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.”
“If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.”
“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.”
“If you put on a dress once in a while, habibti, you will see the boys come running, eh?" Teta gets up from her chair and bends to tug off my hair tie. She uses her hands to let my long hair roll down over my back, then thumbs my chin to make me smile. "You are a beautiful girl. You never let us see."
I catch your eye, standing close by her side. And I do smile back, that false smile that I am supposed to make because now, as then, there is no room for me on this rooftop, and neither Teta nor Reem know the difference, because I have not smiled a real smile since the day the crows came to mourn their dead, and even my family no longer remembers the smile I lost.”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.”
“If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.”
“If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.”
“If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.”
“If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.”
“If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.”
“If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.”
“If you put other people's happiness at stake, you will not achieve anything in your life.”
“If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!”
“If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.”
“If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.”
“If you put people in a perfect paradise which is more than enough for the world population, they will still start making war with each other to catch the best corner there!”
“If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.”
“If you put people with no integrity to work for the state or government. They will sell the country.”
“If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.”
“If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.”
“If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.”
“If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks.”
“If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.”
“If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead you put on something with an unpleasant, oppressive smell, you repel them and drive them away. It is the same with the mind. If your attention is occupied with what is holy, you make yourself worthy of being visited by God, since this is the sweet savour which God catches scent of. On the other hand, if you nurture evil, foul and earthly thoughts within you, you remove yourself from God's supervision and unfortunately make yourself worthy of His aversion.”
Source: The homilies
“If you put something together and it doesn't look so good,
the fashion police are not going to come and take you away.
And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.”
“If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body.”
“If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.”
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”
“If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.”
“If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.”
“If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.”
“If you put the work in, and you show that you're willing to work hard, you'll succeed.”
“If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.”
Source: Feeling for Bones
“If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.”
Source: Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World
“If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.”
Source: The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian
“If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.”
“If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.”
“If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.”
“If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.”
“If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.”
“If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.”
“If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.”
“If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.”
“If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.”
Source: Success God's Way: Achieving True Contentment and Purpose
“If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump.”
“If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.”
“If you put your hands on the far ones closely, it proves two things, whether you're bad or people around you.”
“If you put your heart against the earth with me
In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you
From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be
So happy.”
“If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!