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“Can you imagine if you had a pair of shoes that you could only walk in? That could be kind of limiting under certain circumstances. 'Everybody get outta here! There's a swarm of bees coming!' What? Oh great, I got my walking shoes on today. I guess I better stroll the hell out of here at a moderate pace.”

Ifs Kind Today Certain Walks Hell Imagine Circumstances Walking Shoes Pairs Be Kind Pace Bees Moderates Pair Of Shoes Swarms Walking Shoes

Author:Arj Barker

“The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.”

Ifs Looks Persons Whole Evil White Results Situation Failing Minutes Circumstances Bitter Look Up Tempted Agonizing Vehement Racial Equality

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).”

Ifs Want Two Spiritual Used Accepting Poverty Materials Circumstances Opposites Financial Refuse Riches Estates Two Roads

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“It's cheap, and you have a thinking, breathing bomb that can adjust to circumstances and cross the street to hit another target if the original one doesn't look good.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Streets Circumstances Crosses Originals Breathing Bombs Target

Author:Mia Bloom

“If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.”

Ifs Faces Purpose Challenges Situation Circumstances Tragic Face To Face Tourists Challenging Situations

Author:Annie Lennox

“If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.”

Ifs Needs Community Justice Love You Circumstances Insisting

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given their age, past experience and present circumstances. It is this kind of trust that I mean when I talk about parenting being on their child's side. Having someone dependably 'on their side' is absolutely critical if a child is to grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. If we aren't on their side, who will be?”

Ifs Believe Kind Mean Children Moments Age Past Given Grows Sides Circumstances Capacity Our Children Critical Generous Adulthood Past Experiences Love And Trust

Author:Jan Hunt

“With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.”

“In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.”

People Ifs Firsts Self Our Lives Awareness Creation Circumstances Shapes Responsible Self Awareness Empowering Live By Personal Life Default

Author:Stephen Covey

“Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.”

Ifs Knows President Circumstances Republican Percent Campaigns Presidential Approval Rating Mccain Outgoing Presidential Campaign Approval Rating

Author:Rachel Maddow

“If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another.”

Ifs World Believe Persons Effects Circumstances Degrees Victim Dependent If You Believe Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.”

Ifs Shows Together Asks Acting Morning Wise Havens Needed Circumstances Surprise Excited Ask Me Viewers Costumes Surprise Me

Author:Gabriel Mann

“Even if leftists were able to get control of every institution they want to destroy, what they want is not possible. The circumstances for life on this planet that they want are not possible to achieve. The closest they can get to it is communism and tyranny where they have to force everybody to live the way they want.”

Ifs Way Want Able Force Achieve Planets Circumstances Institutions Tyranny Communism Closest Leftists

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy?”

Ifs Might Certain Evil Asks Policy Circumstances Capitalism Immigration Related Abortion Regions Logical Far Away Pope Justified Explaining Immigration Policy American Capitalism

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.”

People Ifs Way Persons Happens Order Energy Circumstances Blame Get Better Manipulate

Author:Wayne Dyer

“If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.”

Ifs Choices Christ Serious Becoming Circumstances Commitment To God Intimacy With God Servant Of God Following Jesus

Author:Francis Frangipane

“When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.”

Ifs Should Wells Heart Sometimes Seems Decision Circumstances I've Learned Tempting

Author:Renny Harlin

“What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Able Social Causes Clear Changed Circumstances Gay Perception Woods Fortunate Happy Life Inherent Norm Being Gay

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Character Would Be Turns Fiction Journey New York Circumstances Pages Sitting Very Good Metaphor Heavy Contemporary Mainstream Thinking About Life

Author:Karan Bajaj

“If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.”

“If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.”

Ifs Bears Circumstances

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.”

“Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy circumstances. Or if you can't get access to family planning, your chances of surviving and being able to bring your kids up if they come one right after the other, that locks you into a cycle of poverty.”

Ifs Mean Kids Able Chance Poverty Baby Circumstances Access Planning Cycles Locks Surviving Unhealthy Delivering Places To Go Family Planning Childbearing Cycle Of Poverty

Author:Melinda Gates

“Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.”

Ifs Feels Mind Moments Body Fall Easy Practice Impossible Tree Crazy Circumstances Happenings Breaths Legs Your Body Burning Stability Observing Mind And Body Going Crazy

Author:Tara Stiles

“If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.”

Ifs Should Answers Perfect Century Circumstances Consequence Improvement 20th Century

Book:Ill Fares the Land

Source: Ill Fares the Land

“The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.”

Ifs Should Trying Country Government Trump Circumstances Messages

Author:Chris Christie

“I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Country Happens Can Do Circumstances Good Things Haiti

Author:Sean Penn

“It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.”

“If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.”

Ifs Realizing Economic Circumstances Productions Cycles Up And Down Colombia

Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“I have sort of issues with my claustrophobia where being on an airplane or if I force myself, to put myself in these circumstances that I kind of, am afraid of, that can be a way to toughen me up.”

Ifs Way Kind Force Issues Circumstances Airplane Claustrophobia

Author:Robert Greene

“I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're in desperate circumstances, or you think America is deeply in trouble, you're willing to tolerate that without necessarily liking it.”

Ifs Thinking America Trouble Willing Trump Circumstances Desperate Voters Tolerate Ugliness

Author:David Brooks

“If I've got any small role in this matter, it's to say to Scots Americans: under no circumstances make Donald Trump President of the United States of America.”

Ifs Matter States America President United Roles United States Trump Circumstances United States Of America Scots Small Roles

Author:Alex Salmond

“We've been living in difficult circumstances and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn't mean if you're prepared things will be better ; it's going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.”

Ifs Mean War Difficult Stupid Possibility Circumstances Prepared Strikes Foolish Difficult Circumstances

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President. If I don't have the public support, whether there's the so-called "Arab spring" - it's not spring, anyway - but whether we have this or we don't, if you don't have public support, you have to quit, you have to leave. If you have public support, in any circumstances you have to stay. That's your mission, you have to help the people, you have to serve the people.”

People Ifs Firsts Helping Asks President Support Circumstances Spring Missions Quitting Support You Arab Spring

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“It's just like they approach things on every movie I've worked on, very much as if it was a live-action movie. The character you're playing, even though he's a rooster and is really stupid, you approach it in the same way you would approach Hamlet, which is exactly how I approached it. But they give you the circumstances. "You're on the boat. You didn't expect to be here. You just climbed in a boat to maybe sleep. You don't even know why you climbed in the boat. You're really that dumb.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Character Action Sleep Stupid Circumstances Approach Boat Dumb Action Movie Really Stupid Roosters

Author:Alan Tudyk

“The Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship because they burned the American flag. And if you don't believe that, you haven't been reading constitutional law for the past seventy years.”

“If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas.”

Ifs Moving Guy Left Economic Circumstances Kansas Athens Boho

Author:William Gibson

“Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think, tough times, is to make sure that you've covered the basis for when something, you know, essentially things taking longer, bad luck, adversity, other kinds of circumstances may occur. Make sure that you can monitor to win, it's potentially, you know, something is going to go wrong, monitor early enough, and then take appropriate action to essentially counteract that or shift your strategy or plan, even if in fact something is not working out as well as it is.”

“Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Problem Sin Creative Risk Willing Wind Circumstances Cost Consequence Irony Novelists Traffic Avoided Sentimentality

Author:Steve Erickson

“When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.”

Ifs Needs Should Kind Mean Doe Suffering Courses Can Do Cases Worry Circumstances Behavior Abuse Injustice Unhappy No Point Can Do Something Adverse

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and... Jay McShann. I just found myself in some circumstances, on some gigs or sometimes in clubs, with the ability to talk to some of these people. Just being around their energy and being around that history was invaluable. And what I normally say to young people that are getting into the music, if you can and go... now there's less of those folks around, sadly.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.”

Ifs Knows Wells Enough Character Might Actors Situation Circumstances

Author:Denis Leary

“Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.”

Ifs Life Firsts Mean Long Two Answers Mistake Education Circumstances Training Oneself Work Out Complicated Chains Ties Involving Right Answers

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.”

Ifs Realizing Duty Circumstances Office Capable Obligation Pope

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

Ifs Giving Happiness Success Joy Difficult Change Human Nature Circumstances Demand Adversity Bounds Inner Peace Looking For Happiness Difficult Circumstances

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.”

Ifs Jobs House Belief My Own Circumstances Bounds Miserable Funeral Aunt My Own Happiness

Author:Jill Scott

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

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Book:Mrs. Warren's Profession

Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession

“One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Circumstances One Day Understood Blame I Realized Wronged Blaming Others

Author:Mary J. Blige

“You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.”

Ifs Way Want Matter Done Enough Pain Jobs Desire Circumstances Obstacles Get It Done

Author:Jack Youngblood

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”

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