I Quotes
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“If necessity is the mother of all invention, boredom has to be an aunt of all invention. A bored man tries everything, even if he fails a thousand times.”
“If necessity is the Mother of invention, Optimism is the Father”
“If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.”
“If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.”
“If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.”
“If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.”
“If need be get all the necessary training”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.”
“If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.”
“If negativity starts to cloud your thoughts, get on your hands & knees and pull out the weeds.”
“If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.”
Source: Life Capsules
“If neonicotinoids are the answer, what was the question?”
“If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.”
“If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members”
“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.”
“If neuroscientific research shows that those mechanisms only contain comparative information about colour differences, and have 'thrown away' more fine-grained information about the absolute colours of single surfaces, then that would support my position, in a way that just introspecting our colour experiences can't.”
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”
“If never sated, some affections can live on for years, dormant yet capable of being awoken at the stroke of a key, the dispatch of a text message.”
Source: Home Making
“If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.”
“If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.”
“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears.
co-author with Niles Eldridge”
“If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.”
“If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.”
“If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.”
Source: The Sellout
“If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.”
“If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation”
“If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.”
“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'”
“if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person.”
“If Niall could see Marianne, he would say: don’t tell me. You like her. It’s true she is Connell’s type, maybe even the originary model of the type: elegant, bored-looking, with an impression of perfect self-assurance. And he’s attracted to her, he can admit that. After these months away from home, life seems much larger, and his personal dramas less significant. He’s not the same anxious, repressed person he was in school, when his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it.”
Source: Normal People
“If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.”
“If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and fans who appreciate her talent and admire her as a person. But then, why would Broomfield have opened up his film to those of us who work with Courtney and are close to her when there are so many bitter left - behinds and desperate attention - seekers eager to validate his attack on her character? Inquisitors in every age, scared of forceful women, have used all kinds of half - baked testimony to whip up chants of 'Burn the witch!'”
“If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.”
“If Nigeria must advance, we have to steak to work. There is no success that is easy on every body though some success candidate may claim to have gotten there through an easy route. It isn’t always true and unfair to hear that. Minds need to be broken to assemble with others.”
“If Nigeria will change for the better, then we must take responsibility for the changes in Nigeria.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If night comes, so will dawn.
If deserts come, so will paradise.
If agony comes, so will ecstasy.”
“If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry for her.”
“If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry for her. After all, Crowfeather took her as a mate to prove he was loyal to WindClan in spite of everything of trying to run off with the ThunderClan medicine cat. But she's a difficult she-cat to like, with her short temper and her possessivness over Crowfeather and her son, Breezepaw.”
“If nightmares can become reality, why can't dreams?...I imagine a future where immigration prisons do not exist.”
Source: Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants
“If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.”
“If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.”
“If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts. The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion the law as he sees fit.”
“If no apple has ever been shot off a boy's head from the beginning of the world, it may be done tomorrow morning,and by somebody who has never heard of William Tell”
Source: Heretics
“If no child of mine
becomes a poet
will the absence of my tongue shimmer
like betrayal
in their mouths?”
Source: blud
“If no demand is put on you, then you are in a sense excluded.’
‘From what?’
‘Life itself. To be demanded of gives us dignity [...] If someone expects, demands something of you, it means he takes you seriously.’ [...]
The Rabbi found that he had the stale taste of anger in his mouth. ‘Don’t you see?’ he asked, knowing that he was failing to make sense of any kind to Dave, ‘that the demand is that you take part in the huge cosmic struggle that is going on? Apathy is the gravest of sins.’ He turned from Dave to the fair little boy he had come to love. ‘Even the tiniest creature can shake the universe…”
Source: The Young Unicorns
“If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.”
Source: By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today
“If no king will save them, we will. Aid comes at a price. Protection is steel, shadow, and blood. Not mercy.
Skull Knight”
Source: Sons of Blood and Sorrow: Echoes of Frostholt