Ifs Quotes - Page 31

• Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Stones, Way

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• If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

  James Dobson

  Men, Two, Three

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• If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

  James Dobson

  Law, Land, Institutions

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• If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

  Alan Garner

  Writing

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

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• My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

  Alan Garner

  Children, Attitude, Book

  "Alan Garner: a life in books". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

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• A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed on and thrive in the digestion of the food which he provides for others will scarce make it savoury unto them; yea, he knows not but the food he hath provided may be poison, unless he have really tasted of it himself. If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

  John Owen

  Men, Soul, Poison

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.76

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• If we dont continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

  Judy Biggert

  Risk, Energy, Nuclear

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• I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one
  another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.

  Tom Lehrer

  Thinking, People, Shut Up

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• Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

  Dan Barber

  Vegetables, Withdrawal, Soil

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• If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

  Dan Barber

  Thinking, Looks, Habitat

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• If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

  Lorrie Moore

  Burning, Speak, Burning Bush

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Sometimes, Novel

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• You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

  Lorrie Moore

  Fiction, Pay, Bills

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• If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

  Lorrie Moore

  Suicidal, Killing Yourself, Known

  Lorrie Moore (2014). “Bark”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• I dont believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, youre in trouble.

  Bob Menendez

  Believe, Needs, Use

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• If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.

  Bob Menendez

  Morning, Done, Breakfast

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• Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.

  Jon Tester

  Jobs, Agriculture, Giving

  "Tester Pitches Montana Beef As Taco Bell Alternative" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

  Renee Fleming

  Believe, Athlete, Voice

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  Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

  Louie Gohmert

  Kings, Character, Color

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• If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

  John Dingell

  Rights, Law, Second Amendment

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• Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

  John James Audubon

  Men, Way, Welcome

  John James Audubon (1873). “The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist”, p.169

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• If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

  Erik Bruhn

  Dream, Years, Dancer

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• Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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