Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 6249.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Source: The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond -
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
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If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
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If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.
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If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions.
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If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
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If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
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If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.
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If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
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If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Source: Asimov's Guide to Science (1972) p. 15 -
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works -
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
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