Quotes on Ifs

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

Syncronistic meetings are like mirrors that reflect something of ourselves. If we want to grow spiritually, all we have to do is take a good look. Synchronicity holds the promise that if we want to change inside, the patterns of our external life will change as well.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today.

Talk to people in their own language. _x000D_ _x000D_ If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." _x000D_ _x000D_ And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.