I Quotes
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“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”
“If you say that ghosts are not afraid, then why do they always prefer the dark?”
Source: Flesh And Blood: Jeans Love Sex Desire in the Sun's Snake Island
“If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.”
“If you say that the gospel lays a claim upon people, then you are invading their personal space, and they feel as though you have no right to be there. Now we don't even begin preaching the gospel until we get into their personal space and they feel the demands of God upon them.”
“If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.”
“If you say that you'd never hurt anybody,
you're lack of emphaty and full of bullshit.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“If you say that you have never lied at all,
then you give too much trust on anybody.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“If you say that you never lie in life,
you honestly insult my intelligence.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.”
Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
“If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that.”
“If you say that you're a king, queen, god or goddess and you recognize that you're from ancestral greatness, you have to start living up to that. It's really just that simple.”
“If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.”
“If you say the Holy Rosary every day, with a spirit of faith and love, our Lady will make sure she leads you very far along her Son's path.”
“If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'”
Source: The Secret of the Rosary
“If You...
say the same things as everyone else…
share the same links as everyone else…
post the same quotes as everyone else…
and put up the same pictures as everyone else…
Why should anyone think you are any different than everyone else?
You have your own creativity. You have your own story.
Stop trying to tell another person’s story and start engaging people with yours.”
“If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades.”
“If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.”
“If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.”
“If you say three things, you don't say anything.”
Source: All's Fair:
“If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.”
“If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.”
“If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.”
“If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“If you say to the universe again and again, "How may I serve? How may I serve? How may I serve?" and you live a life of constancy reflecting that principle, the universe will respond back, "How may I serve you?"”
“If you say to the universe, "Gimme, gimme, gimme," which is what a lot of the work around the law of attraction says because of a misinterpretation, then the universe gives you back what you offered out. You get more "gimme, gimme, gimme." "Gimme" means you don't have enough. You have a shortage. The universe just keeps giving you more shortage because of what you're thinking and saying.”
“If you say to yourself 'It's difficult to get up in the morning', 'It's hard to cease smoking', then you are already using hypnotic suggestions on yourself”
“If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.”
“If you say 'war' again, I'll go in the house.”
Source: Gone with the wind
“If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.”
“If you say yes when you mean no, you are not being authentic, or true to yourself, to who you really are. You are not living your life, you are trying to fit in with someone else's.”
“If you say you are a believer and at the same time commit sin and evil, then you are not a good believer”
Source: A Guide to the Psyche of Atheism, Religion and Philosophy and Their Impact on Contemporary Spirituality
“If you say you are truly in love with me, you must see the light in my darkness, embrace my iniquity, and follow me to hell.”
Source: Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
“If you say you can't, you won't!
The only thing holding you back from success is yourself.”
Source: Hitty and Her Next Hundred Years
“If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?”
“If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day.”
“If you say you had a zen moment, you already didn't.”
“If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.”
“If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.”
“If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!”
“If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.”
“If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.”
“If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.”
“If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.”
“If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.”
Source: Clash
“If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.”
Source: The Awakening
“If you say, "Are you going to change your strategic objective?", it means you're leaving before the mission is complete, and we're not going to leave before the mission in Iraq is complete.”
“If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs.”
“If you say, "Woo, woo, woo!" to me, I'll say it back. I love it. "Woo, woo, woo" is something that my character used to say. It's something that my mother used to say to my brother and me when we were kids. When words would fail her, she'd just go, "Oh, woo, woo, woo." It's compassion. It's a combination of "I see you, I feel you, I acknowledge you, I got your back."”
“If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery.”