I Quotes
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“If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.”
Source: Poetics
“If you strip a man of all his material possessions, what he has left shows you his true riches.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“If you strip a man of all his material possessions; what he has leftover shows you his true riches.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“If you strip a man of his unique ability to humiliate, you are left with a creature who is merely worse at every sort of sensual activity than a woman is.”
“If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.”
“If you strive for excellence, success will follow”
“If you strive for joy, meaning will follow. If you strive for meaning - joy will go in a different direction.”
“If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.”
“If you strive to be perfect in everything, whether it's possible or not, you will always live a more fulfilled life.”
“If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.”
“If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.”
“If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.”
“If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.”
“If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you are, those things affect how you can be employed or not employed, how you can get an apartment or not get an apartment, how it is that you feel free or not free.”
“If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.”
“If you stuck in the past, you won’t be able to step in the future!”
“If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.”
Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.”
Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers
“If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.”
“If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.”
“If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.”
Source: Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings
“If you study Marx' Communist Manifesto you will find that in essence Marx said the proletarian revolution would establish the SOCIALIST dictatorship of the proletariat. To achieve the SOCIALIST dictatorship of the proletariat, three things would have to be accomplished: (1) The elimination of all right to private property; (2) The dissolution of the family unit; and (3) Destruction of what Marx referred to as the'opiate of the people,' religion.”
Source: None Dare Call It Conspiracy
“If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.”
“If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.”
“If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.”
“If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.”
Source: The Complete Works of Horace
“If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.”
“If you study the Holy Bible, you shall behold its blessings.”
“If you study the Holy Scriptures, God will speak to you.”
“If you study the rhythm of life on this planet, you will find that everything moves in perfect symphony with everything else — by grand divine design. The earth has the ability to heal and regenerate itself, just as our oceans have the ability to replenish themselves by turning over their debris with the waves to wash them ashore. This perfect orchestration of the cycle of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles. The earth will continue to exist with or without us. So the real concern should be, will we be able to continue to co-exist with each other?”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.”
Source: Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)
“If you study the scriptures continually, you find sacredness of life.”
“If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.”
Source: The Rise of David Levinsky
“If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.”
“If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments”
“If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.”
“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
Source: Life of Pi
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist.”
Source: Life of Pi
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater”
“If you stumble, try to make it a part of the dance. Don’t let the mistakes in your life keep you from achieving your potential. So make your fumbles a part of your dance and groove to them.”
Source: Grooving Back to Love: A second-chances contemporary romance
“If you stumble, rise up, go on.”
“If you submit a search of the following phrase on Google, you get over four hundred returns, and they are often very strange ones: "I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."”
“If you submit to Sovereign Lord, you will not follow your sturbborn heart.”
“If you submit to Sovereign Lord, you will not follow your sturbborn hearts.”
“If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.”
“If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have perfected your gift”
“If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential”
“If you subscribe to the idea that # addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.”
Source: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction