I Quotes
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“If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.”
“If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.”
“If you take any step, no matter how small it is, towards achieving your dreams then you will surely find the right path and reach the abundance that lies in store for you.”
Source: Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
“If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.”
“If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.”
“If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.”
“If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.”
“If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more.”
“If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.”
“If you take away different religions or opinions, then the world will become a boring place. People have to keep arguing to make life worth living.”
“If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.”
“If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.”
“If you take away someone's Internet and they freak out, that's a sign they're addicted.”
“If you take away the big words and the solemn face, there is still plenty left, so there is no need to be scared.”
Source: Sex in Human Loving
“If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.”
“If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.”
“If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.”
Source: Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change
“If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.”
“If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.”
“If you take care of everything inside of you, God will take care of everything outside of you.”
“If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.”
“If you take care of the relative, then the relative itself will help you entirely.”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.”
“If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.”
“If you take care of your body, it'll take care of you.”
“If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.”
“If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’”
Source: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business.”
“If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.”
Source: Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms
“If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be. Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.”
“If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37
“If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.”
“If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.”
“If you take credit when things go well, you must be willing to accept responsibility when they go poorly.”
“If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.”
“If you take decisions based on others’ advice, you’ll go wrong anf still not learn. When you make mistakes yourself, you’ll have learnt with each mistake!”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“If you take decisions based on others’ advice, you’ll go wrong but still not learn. When you make mistakes yourself, you’ll have learnt with each mistake!”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.”
“If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.”
“If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.”
“If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.”
“If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.”
“If you take everything to heart, happiness will deviate from your path.”
“If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at the end of the month, you'll notice that the white guys are walking and talking and standing like the black guys do. You'll never see the black guys going, "Oh, golly! We won the big game today, yes sir!" But you'll see guys with red hair named Duffy going, "What's happenin'?"”
“If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.”
“If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.”
“If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins.”
“If you take GOD for granted, He can't make His Mind known to you.”
“If you take goodwill for granted and get sloppy, you might get away with it once or twice, but you won't get away with it for ever. You should always treat the things that treat you good with respect, because otherwise you will suffer for it. More important than that is the fact that it's just the right thing to do.”
Source: Recipes for a Perfect Marriage