Ifs Quotes - Page 2

• you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.

  Irina Ratushinskaya

  Being Yourself, Hate, Years

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• If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.

  Norman Tebbit

  Country, Community, Wish

  Private Eye Magazine, #1170, October 27 - November 09, 2006.

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• Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Break Through, Skins, Plot

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• If someone listens to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.

  Marilyn Manson

  Creative

  huH Magazine, October 10, 1996.

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• In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.

  Erwin Rommel

  Taken, Two, Views

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• If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

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• The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

  John Lennon

  People, Hypocrisy, Smoking

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• Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

  Jane Fonda

  Mistake, Consistency, Admitting

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Facts, Conflict, Theory

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• If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?

  Barack Obama

  Nice, Thinking, Fancy Cars

  "Obama to Europe: No More Excuses" by Dan Froomkin, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 3, 2009.

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• Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

  Leopold Schefer

  Prayer, Eye, Decide Upon

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• Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Looks, Proud, Littles

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• If you’re truly present in this moment, then you are a Buddha. At least for this moment!

  Leonard Jacobson

  Moments

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• The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.

  Catherine the Great

  Heart, Forever, Want

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• A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

  Josephus Daniels

  Religious, Men, Feet

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• Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Important, Why Not

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• Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

  Robert Glasper

  Piano, People, Black

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• If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

  George Carlin

  Atheism, Best God, Diseased

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

  Charlie Munger

  Lying, Asking, Answers

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• If you love what you do and if you believe in what you do, others will share your enthusiasm. Passionate people find their way to the Virgin Group, and when they do, we snap them up and try to keep them within the family.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, People, Trying

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• If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Self, Moral

  Charlotte Bunch, Nancy Myron (1974). “Class and feminism: a collection of essays from the Furies”

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• First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Broken, Giving, Sound

  "The Lonely Dead". Book by Michael Marshall Smith, 2004.

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• I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

  Nick Xenophon

  Politician, Very Good, Knows

  "From Brash Young Liberal to Senate Linchpin for Nick Xenophon" by Jamie Walker, www.theaustralian.com.au. June 28, 2008.

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• If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.

  T. B. Joshua

  Gold, Furnaces

  "Bewitching Favour". Africa News, September 22, 2009.

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• if you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Men, Sometimes

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