Ifs Quotes - Page 37

• If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Tanks, Energy, Instant

  Wayne Thomas Batson (2014). “Search for the Shadow Key”, p.102, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

  Andrew Pyper

  Writing, Hair, Necks

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• There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

  Rupert Graves

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Rupert bared". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.

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• Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

  Helen Beardsley

  Children, Hard Work, Giving

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• I think I'm a love agnostic - not sure, one way or another, if it really exists.

  Joan M. Drury

  Thinking, Way, Agnostic

  Joan M. Drury (1996). “Silent Words”, Spinsters Ink Books

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• Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

  Joan M. Drury

  Revolution, Matter, Courtesy

  Joan M. Drury (2000). “Those Jordan Girls”, Spinsters Ink Books

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• The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

  Paul Strand

  Gratitude, Thinking, Men

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• A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Boys, Feet

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.119, Penguin

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• Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

  Libba Bray

  Neat And Tidy, Forever, Soul

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

  Libba Bray

  Children, Book, Python

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• I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

  Paul Robeson

  Powerful, People, Goal

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

  Jessye Norman

  Wise, Kindness, Book

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• I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Insecure, Thinking

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.55, Hot Key Books

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• Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”-because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

  E. Lockhart

  Junk, Want, Likes

  E. Lockhart (2010). “Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• If you spend your own money on yourself, you care how much you spend and how well you spend it. If you spend your own money on someone else, you care how much you spend, but you don't care how well it is spent. If you spend someone else's money on yourself, you don't care how much you spend, but you do care how well it is spent. And finally, if you spend someone else's money on someone else, you don't care how much you spend, and you don't care how well it is spent. That is government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Care, Wells

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• Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with real tools that can change your life and make your dreams a reality-The Compound Effect is it! I plan to use this book to go back and look at what I need to again work on in my own life! Buy ten copies, one for yourself and nine more for those you love, and pass them out now-those who get it will thank you!

  David Bach

  Dream, Real, Book

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• If you have the FAITH to believe it, you have the POWER to conceive it!

  T. D. Jakes

  Believe

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2016

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• The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Intelligent, Two, Brave

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.83, Hamilton Books

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• It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Fearless, Ignorant

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4026, Delphi Classics

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• When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.

  Jim Leyland

  Loss, Winning, Careers

  "The skip’s good-bye". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. November 10, 2013.

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• I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

  Jim Leyland

  Player, Red Flags, Doors

  "The skip’s good-bye". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. November 10, 2013.

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• I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Believe, School, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

  Sara Zarr

  Passion, Discipline, Violin

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• I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Order, Path

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• So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had been invaded by time. But do you think you're free? I think I recognize the patterns of my nature. Bud do you think you're free? I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

  Louise Glück

  Wall, Taken, Thinking

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