Quotes on Ifs

To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless if you spend your whole life in a mental hospital. It is worthless if you worry about not having money. It is worthless if you become neurotic because you cannot get a prestigious job. It is worthless if you weep because you lose your girlfriend.

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous promotion of Shenandoah and Blue Ridge was to stand as the pinnacle of new era finance. It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale.

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.