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“If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.”

Ifs Kind Body Song Sex Air Stage Like You Ears Distance Having Sex

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.”

Ifs Wells Social Realizing Air Tree Breathe Forests Preserves Ecology Owl Habitat

Author:Sam Keen

“Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.”

Ifs Heart Persons Made Sometimes Body Hands Light Would Be Eye Faces Passion Stars Water Air Sky Promise Garden Rose Evening If I Could Sincerity Making Love Palms Rose Garden Evening Sky

Author:Victor Hugo

“We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.”

Ifs World Way Able Heaven Air Sea Bears Limits Sight Wings Fishes Our World Summit Sluggish

Author:Plato

“The law in the United States, in every jurisdiction until about 1876, was that if a factory put smoke into the air, even one day a year, and it got onto a neighbor's property, the neighbor had the right to enjoin to close down the factory, and the courts had no choice but to do that.”

Ifs Years States Law Choices United United States Air One Day Court Property Neighbor Smoke Factories Jurisdiction

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”

Ifs Pleasure Too Much Air Achievement Pollution Fresh Air Pleasures Of Life Air Pollution

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.”

Ifs Shows Names Left Process Air Solutions Fruit Covered Sugar Juice Fermentation Fruit Juice

Author:Eduard Buchner

“They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.”

Ifs Play Shows Wonderful Air Blessed Dutch Holland Wonderful Life It's A Wonderful Life

Author:Anthony Geary

“When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about being black on air, viewers write and say, "You're black?!" I feel [straightening your hair] is giving up a sense of your identity. Let's be honest: It's an effort to look Anglo-Saxon.”

Ifs Giving Feels Writing Looks Black Walks Effort Doubt Air Streets Honest Identity Hair Giving Up Being Honest No Doubt Viewers Afros Anglo Saxon

Author:Jami Floyd

“Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.”

People Ifs Firsts Able Mother Order Term Water Realizing Natural Air Violent Peaceful Destroying Mother Nature Natural Order Violent Acts

Author:Cathy Hughes

“On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.”

Ifs Soul Cities Wonder Millions Air New York Summer Eight Giants Rising Visible New York City Sweat Steam Summer Days Glands

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says he thinks it would be great if Donald Trump was president. Which is really weird because I thought Brady didn't like things that are filled with too much air.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be President Too Much Air Trump Filled Toms Patriot Quarterback Really Weird Brady

Author:Conan O'Brien

“No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don't give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!”

Ifs Men Giving Believe Doe Air Humble Believer Believe In God Be Humble Everyman Disbelievers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.”

Ifs World Said Facts Hands Born Common Grace Air Tree Sea Creation Appreciate Tasks Clean Available Massive Cleanliness Proceeding Baptized Pears Augustine God's Creation Clean Air

Author:Joseph Sittler

“Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.”

Ifs Needs Mind Light Space Silence Air Essentials Plant Silence Is Crowded

Author:Nhat Hanh

“During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.”

Ifs Stories Use Home Happens Purpose Fall Answers Audience Happened Air Busy Radio London Russia Britain Historian

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Use Problem Kids I Believe Parent Morning Issues Pieces Doors Air Figures Skills Capable Tools Balls

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.”

Ifs Stills Force Air Dangerous New York Catholic Scary Bread Instant Potatoes Marine Marine Corps Air Force Montana

Author:Lenny Bruce

“You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.”

Ifs Trying Four Air Car Happenings Hundred Bags

Author:Clint Eastwood

“If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Feels Wells Feelings Happens Wanted Film Actors Opportunity Chance Air Tragedy Cooks These Days About Yourself Good Work Pissed Off

Author:Burt Reynolds

“That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.”

Ifs Mind Leader Player Air All Time Mind Set Being A Leader Positive Mind

Author:Joey Harrington

“When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Two Moments Choices Air Settling Fallen Coins Toss Two Choices Brief Moments

Author:Johnny Depp

“Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary to give regularly if we wish to receive regularly.”

Ifs Giving Order Wish Air Breathe Lungs Fresh Air

Author:Catherine Ponder

“I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?”

Ifs Men World Should Book Helping Feelings Earth Universe Heaven Air Proud Pages Forests Globes Insignificant Herds Flocks Astronomers Mosquitoes

Author:Mark Twain

“If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.”

Ifs Country Air Sea Land Tears Symbols Flags Unpatriotic Land And Sea

Author:Ralph Nader

“Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.”

“One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.”

Ifs Thinking Fighting Water Fire Air Rocks Bird Flow Rivers Deeds Fighter Firm Thinker Finding Peace Fear Not Doers Pacifist Furnaces

Author:Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“A good many preachers say I am lowering the pulpit. I am glad I am. I am trying to get it down to the level of men's hearts. If I wanted to hit Chicago I would not put the cannon on the top of this building and fire into the air. Too many preachers fire into the air.”

Ifs Men Trying Heart Wanted Levels Fire Air Building Glad Good Man Chicago Preacher Pulpit Cannons

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline.”

“If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.”

“Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.”

“I would let the military commanders give the commander in chief options rather than tell them what you want to hear. Not having gotten those options, I can't tell you if we are going to have boots on the ground but certainly, a more expanded role for the special operators would be essential. And being more effective in strikes as it is relates to the air.”

Ifs Want Giving I Can Would Be Roles Air Special Military Essentials Strikes What You Want Chiefs Relate Boots Commanders Commander In Chief Operators

Author:Jeb Bush

“We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy its main objective of creating two political geographies in this country through the all-out war which has been unleashed against us. If we had a first-rate air force, the nature of the conflict would be completely different.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Two Different War Country Would Be Political Force Goal Enemy Air Keys Conflict Creating Rate Extremes Objectives Hardship Denied Geography Air Force Unleashed

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once.”

Ifs Feels Three Hours Known Air Goes On Conversation Normal Draws Heavy Sentences Block Slips Bias Curtains Swearing Profane One Sentence Broadcasters Drapes

Author:Dick Enberg

“I've always felt that I shouldn't scream on the air...I just feel there's a way of rising enthusiastically if there's an exciting play, but you don't have to scream. There are people who do shout, and I think that's unnecessary. You have to be under control at all times, no matter what's taking place. Enthusiasm and excitement can be expressed without going berserk.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Matter Play Felt Air Exciting No Matter What Enthusiasm All Time Excitement Rising Scream Unnecessary Berserk

Author:Marv Albert

“Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.”

Ifs Feels Years Firsts Has Beens Beautiful Certain House Language Sound Air Months Lessons

Author:Renee Fleming

“We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.”

Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

“I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"”

Ifs Want Used Purpose Energy Understanding Effort Practice Air Poet Training Get Up Faster Appropriate Gestures Splits Timing Entity Preparing Vocabulary Correctness Alphabet Up In The Air

Author:Edward Villella

“I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.”

Ifs Want Feels Play Emotion Air Instruments Fingers Invisible Right Thing

Author:Jill Scott

“Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.”

Ifs Air Balls Driving Texting Juggling Texting And Driving

Author:Robin Williams

“I want to always be an interloper. I never want to feel like I'm a guy who is embraced by the people who are putting me on the air. I want to feel like I broke into the studio and took over and made them mad. If I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.”

People Ifs Want Feels Made Jobs Guy Air Mad Studios Broke

Author:Bill Maher

“I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.”

Ifs Trying I Can Use Alive Air Bed Holes Staying Alive Poke Mattresses

Author:Demetri Martin

“Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air. (on Wayne Rooney)”

Ifs Knows Wells Moments Player Air Goodness Breathe Developing My Time Scotland Wayne Fresh Air Rooney

Author:Alex Ferguson

“Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance. And we just can't wait for it to all melt.And it's always a remarkable fact that it takes so long to melt because the temperature of the air can be well above the freezing point, and the ice is still solid there. So for most people, that's the experience.”

People Ifs Needs Wells Long Stills Facts Courses Waiting Air Ice Damn Remarkable Temperature Nuisance Freezing Climbers

Author:Ira Flatow

“Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.”

Ifs Knows Kind Children Two Home Air Worst New York Stores My Children Canada Hotel Two Days Toronto

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Bigs House Energy Air Car Youth Planets Standards New Ways Conditioning Big Houses Air Conditioning

Author:Barack Obama

“Videos? Videos are important because millions of people watch TV and we can only tour and play so many places. But if you've got a video, then you're able to air it and millions and millions of people will see it.”

People Ifs Important Play Able Watches Millions Air Tvs Video

Author:Jonathan Davis

“If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spend time with other people. There are a lot of plusses to reading - it's an interactive brain workout - but like everything else that's beneficial in moderation, overdoses can be dangerous.”

People Ifs Book Would Be Reading Brain Air Dangerous Exercise Contact Moderation End Times Workout Beneficial Spend Time Unhealthy Fresh Air Interactive Overdose

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Things that I see in the future. I see... it could be quite incredible if we can master a few problems, like the air and the water thing might be nice. I see governments dissolving these barriers are all falling down for economic reasons. They're all so interbound.”

Ifs Reason Problem Government Might Fall Water Nice Air Economic Masters Incredibles Barriers Being Nice Falling Down Dissolving

Author:Robin Williams

“You can't carpet bomb ISIS if you don't have planes and bombs to attack them with. And if we continue those cuts that we're doing , not to mention additional cuts, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force this country has ever had, and that leaves us less safe.”

Ifs Country Left Force Cutting Air Safe Planes Bombs Smallest Carpet Isis Air Force

Author:Marco Rubio

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