Ifs And Quotes

• Yeah, well, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, then we’d never go hungry. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nuts, Hungry, Yeah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.218, Macmillan

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• If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

  Charles Kingsley

  Humorous, Hands, Pot

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• It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

  Darren Shan

  Perfect, What If, World

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  Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Doe, Sitting

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• House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

  John Boehner

  Strong, House, Immigration

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2006.

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• Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

  Norm Coleman

  Change, Retirement, Security Systems

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• I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

  Maria Shriver

  Thinking, Wish, Tough

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• Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• And trust dies from ifs and buts

  Aidan Chambers

  Dies, Ifs

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.126, Random House

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• The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.

  Alfred Tarski

  White, Snow, Sentences

  Alfred Tarski (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”, Birkhauser

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• Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

  Duane Michals

  Trust, Ignorance, Voice

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• The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

  Vikram

  Form, Diets, Ifs

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• You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Pursuit, Real Life

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.40, Random House

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• A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.

  Richard Laymon

  Book, Years, Hollywood Films

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• The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!.

  Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen

  Media, Australia, Would Be

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• Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Beautiful, Appreciate, Giving

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• The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

  Kerri Walsh

  Children, Giving, Advice

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• I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, People, Messages

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• Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Believe, Civilization, Challenges

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.

  Charles Sheffield

  Running, Home, Thinking

  Charles Sheffield (1992). “Brother to Dragons”

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• We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, New Relationship, Motherhood

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Innovative people have always been in high demand. Help those around you to develop that “never-say-die” attitude by developing it yourself. Make a decision, today, to outlaw complaining, whining and negative thinking in your own personality. And, a word of caution: if and when you are criticized for being so positive or as some call it, “unrealistic,” you will know you are on the right track.

  Bob Proctor

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 07, 2011

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• That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.

  Elif Safak

  Rain, Sorrow, Dry

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• If and when I decide to retire I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

  Jeremy Abbott

  Sports, Ice, Want

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• What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it.
  What if we were taught to ponder it and reflect on it and talk about it and enter it and rehearse it and try it on?What if, rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category, you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart, and all the while-even if and particularly when you were dying-you would be supported by and be part of a community?

  Eve Ensler

  Heart, Talking, Community

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