I Quotes
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“If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it”
“If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].”
“If you were to find this man and this America to your liking...well, it would be good for you.”
Source: The Reluctant Bride
“If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.”
“If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.”
Source: The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By
“If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.”
Source: The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“If you were to go to a restaurant and disagree with Daniel Boulud, he'd probably throw something at you. Restaurant chefs have a problem with caterers because we accommodate special requests, but great service is about getting exactly what you want.”
“If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
“If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?”
“If you were to imagine a life where you had very little power, did not have a voice and things happened to you, not with you - what would that feel like?”
Source: Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments
“If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?”
Source: Foundation's Edge
“If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons.”
“If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.”
“If you were to look at human skin under an electron microscope, you would not be able to tell where the human being begins and ends.
There is no fine barrier between the person and the universe. There is just a flow from one thing to the next and the only reason we perceive separateness is because of the limitations of our senses.
Human beings can only see .0001 % of the spectrum of light and we can only hear .0001 % of the spectrum of sound. If we could see infrared, and if we could see ultraviolet and x-rays, and energy, and hear the whole spectrum of sounds, the universe would appear very differently, there would be no empty space. It would be so full we would just see this sea of energy and there would only be oneness.
There is no separate you. No separateness. There's a deep interconnectedness. There's only oneness.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.”
“If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.”
“If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but rather the pain that you earn with it.”
“If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it.”
“If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it. Remember though that the ones who brave the pain are eternally bound in Cupid's chain. It is these chains that many of us fear. The fear of losing the freedom of choosing for self. The fear of placing the needs of our better halves before our own. The fear is understandable for history has taught us to despise and the society has given us the chance to entice. However, if you were to pause and think ever about - love - then do remember that the chain which upon acceptance binds you in amour is the same which upon rejection arrests us to an ague called lonesome depression. Few survive in love, but fewer without it.”
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
Source: Poetical works
“If you were to name a sword, what would you call it?'
Gwyn answered, thought she hadn't been asked, 'Silver Majesty.'
Emerie snorted, 'Really?'
Gwyn demanded, 'What would you call it?'
Emerie considered. 'Foe Slayer, or something. Something intimidating.'
'That's no better!'
Nesta's mouth tugged upward at their teasing. Gwyn looked to her, teal eyes bright. 'Which one is worse: Foe Slayer or Silver Majesty?'
'Silver Majesty,' Nesta said, and Emerie crowed with triumph. Gwyn waved a hand, booing.
'What would you call it?' Cassian asked Nesta again.
'Why do you want to know?'
'Humour me.'
She lifted a brow. But then said with all sincerity. 'Killer.'
His brows flattened.
Nesta shrugged. 'I don't know. Is it necessary to name a sword?'
'Just tell me: If you had to name a sword, what would you call it?'
'Are you getting her one as a Winter Solstice present?' Emerie asked.
'No.'
Nesta hid her smile. She loved this- when the three of them ganged up on him, like lionesses around a very muscled, very attractive carcass.
'Then why keep asking?' Gwyn said.
Cassian scowled, 'Curiosity.'
But his jaw tightened. It wasn't that. There was something else. Why would he want her to name a sword?”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.”
“If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.”
Source: All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist
“If you were to peer into the heart of a stone at the atomic level, you would not see a dead, inert mass of material but a furiously whirling mini-cosmos. This mini-cosmos would look much like what you see when you look into the night sky, but its bits and pieces would be whirling at speeds near that of light.”
Source: I Ching Life: Becoming Your Authentic Self
“If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.”
“If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together.”
“If you were to put all of the world’s pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next to the mountains of gold and silver found in each moment with God. Our problem is that we rarely see past the drum – The Dance of the Dead”
Source: When Heaven Weeps
“If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.”
“If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.”
“If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation reservation reservation.”
“If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?”
“If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently?”
“If you were to share your workout playlist with the world, I guarantee there's stuff on there that wouldn't pass the cool test, and M2 helped in that way.”
“If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?”
“If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.”
“If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.”
“If you were to succeed without sweating, you would never understand your value. If you work hard and persist, you will appreciate the fruits of your labour.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.”
“If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?”
“If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.”
Source: Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and from the same mouth you started devouring humans, you cried out to me 'I love you,' would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?”
“If you were to use one word to describe your life, would it be a noun or a verb?”
“If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?”
Source: Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God
“If you were transported 500 years back in time and told them about mobile phones, they would call you mad and kill you. Even if you are an engineer, you wouldn’t be able to prove to them that mobile phones are real. They only understand clay and fire.
Today when people say they can see things that you can’t see, you call them mentally ill. Don’t disregard experiences of others no matter how different they are from yours. Space-Time is infinite. Even things you can’t imagine exist inside it.”
“If you were truly 'here for me,' you would have a Kahlua in one hand and Henry Cavill's number in the other. Since I'm not having drunken phone sex with Superman, there must be another reason you're darkening my living room.”
Source: Witness to Passion
“If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn't even think about discrimination.”
“If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.”
“If you were watching CNN, they were saying the NSA is listening to your phone calls. It's reading your emails. When you call your grandma in Arkansas, the NSA knows. All total bulls - t. They made the public more concerned about the privacy issue than the legitimate facts should have done.”
“If you were willing to trade him away, even for an hour, then you don't deserve him. I'll keep them both to raise as my own and let that be our judgment on you for breaking and oath with us. (pg. 9)”
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”
Source: The First Bad Man