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“In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Helping Care Jobs Lost Our Lives Doors Baby Sick South Cake Loved Ones Feel Better Pie Momma My Momma

Author:Kimberly Schlapman

“In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.”

Ifs Littles Next Bits Sides Dark Behinds Doors Little Bit Gains Edges What If Floating Dark Side Examining Quicksand

Author:Trent Reznor

“Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.”

Ifs War Home Courses Doors Find Me

Author:James A. Garfield

“If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.”

People Ifs Humans Names Human Beings Doors Customers Russia Australia Globes Norway Finland Xerox

Author:Ursula Burns

“My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what I wanted to say to smart, funny, self-effacing Ellen McCarthy after I finished reading The Real Thing. I loved every lesson laid out in a book that wouldn't dare to call itself a field guide to marriage but amounts to as much on every page. This is a deeply useful little book.”

Ifs Littles Book Real Self Wanted Reading Next Doors Fields Reader Amount Lessons Pages Smart Dare Finished Guides Real Things

Author:Kelly Corrigan

“Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.”

Ifs Helping Shows Asks Doors Information Office Phones Determine Contact Representatives Banking Utility Skeptical Request Phone Calls Personal Information

Author:Mike Beebe

“If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you dont quite know what problems are worth working on.”

Ifs Knows Years Done Problem Today Doors Tomorrow Ten Office Productive Work Done Today And Tomorrow

Author:Richard Hamming

“When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. “Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.”

Ifs Knows Doe Book Wanted Reading Literature Talking Gone Doors Drink Quiet Evening Tea Kitchen Anna Back Doors

Book:The True Deceiver

Source: The True Deceiver

“A lot of people give up, but you cant stop me. If you close the door, Ill just jump out the window.”

People Ifs Giving Doors Giving Up Window Ill Cant

Author:Diane Warren

“Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion.”

Ifs Faces Left Waiting Loses Grace Seeing Doors Tomorrow Raises Beloved Champion Hopeless Your Face Abandoned Never Lose Hope

Author:Rumi

“If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.”

Ifs Doors Streets Fronts Clean Front Doors

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?”

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stuff Decision Doors Poet Qualified Frost Back Doors Eliot

Author:Bob Dylan

“If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.”

Ifs Way Courses Acting Doors Cold Okay Supposed To Be Locked

Author:Lea Thompson

“If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.”

Ifs Heaven Forget Leader Beauty Hell Doors Mets Deeds Posts Host Heaven And Hell

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.”

Ifs Thinking Mind States Fighting House Doors Fronts Organization Oppression Thoughtful Abandon State Of Mind Sane Freedom Of Speech Back Doors

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother.”

People Ifs Enough Mother Next Bits Doors Brother Baby Regard Communicate Neighbor Familiar Grandparent Brothers And Sisters Delicious Novelty Next Door Neighbors

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.”

Ifs Plans Doors Possibility

Author:Patti Smith

“The essence of building your own brand. People having heard of you - and having a positive impression - before you've even met them. If you can create that effect, doors open for you. A close second, if that's not possible, is people getting a good impression of o very quickly when they Google you”

People Ifs Doors Heard Effects Building Mets Essence Impression Brands Google

Book:The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

Source: The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

“The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight against foreign nations, against people we don't like, against political groups, radicals, and extremists whose ideas we may not agree with, and could be repulsive or even violent - if we let that happen without public buy-in, we won't have any seat at the table of government to decide whether or not it's appropriate for these officials to drag us into some kind of war activity that we don't want, but we weren't aware of at the time.”

“If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.”

Ifs Soul Doors Vibrations Magnetic

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.”

Ifs Humans Doe Light House Love Is Doors Window

Author:Paulo Coelho

“If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!”

People Ifs Doors Opening Closing Opening Doors

Author:Marshall Goldsmith

“What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.”

Ifs Ends States Government Running Church Doors Taste Wine Bread What If Thick Sour Howl

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.”

Ifs Self Difficult Results Attitude Doubt Too Much Doors Easier Communicate Compassionate Suspicion Self Centered Narcissistic Wise Man Once Said Self Absorbed Egocentric Social Interaction

Author:Dalai Lama

“When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Doors Kicks

Author:Muriel Siebert

“I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Littles Doe Kids Remember Young Night Grows Church Growing Up Wife Doors Praying Bed Raises My Wife Remember When Instill Kids Love

Author:Andy Pettitte

“Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.”

Ifs House Doors Prejudice Plant Folks

Author:Josh Billings

“Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?”

Ifs Situation Five Doors Movement Hundred Unity Activism Lions Establishment Mice Overrated

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Mistake Doors Gun Institutions Unity Various Lions Establishment Solidarity Mice Loaded Loaded Gun

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.”

Ifs Men Break Doors Rejoice Flattery Mistress Delighted Slam Rejecting Nudge

Author:Walter Wangerin

“Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.”

People Ifs Want Giving Firsts Persons Lasts Hours Results Watches Doors Consequence Phones Productivity Lunch Mail Locks Entering Visitors Phone Calls One Hour Interruptions

Author:Geri Larkin

“A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.”

Ifs Men Life Enemy Doors Afraid Of Death Afraid Of Life

Author:Rajneesh

“If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!”

Ifs Happiness Walks Doors Waste Knocking

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!”

Ifs Knows Life Know How Doors Devil Discovery Opening

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?”

Ifs Use Heaven Doors

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.”

Ifs I Can Book Helping Happens Lost Laughing Doors Sea Wind Keys Please Horse Boxes Excuse Tricks Code Caves Pardon Labyrinth Excuse Me Sure Thing Ciphers Wind Blowing

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Getting to play the part of Selena was life-changing for me, i got to immerse myself in her life, got to know her family, her home, her culture ... every part of her story. It was a special time in my life both professionally and personally. Playing her not only opened doors for me in the film world, but it inspired me to start my own music career. In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't had that experience.”

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Author:Jennifer Lopez

“But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.”

Ifs Giving May Truth Strong Doors Circumstances Satisfaction

Book:The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations

Source: The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations

“God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.”

Ifs Want Doors Fine Gods Will

Author:Patricia Heaton

“I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to be afraid, and also that it was pointless - possibly wasted, if the feared thing never did materialize. But now that fear has packed its miserable bags and is running out the door, making slamming noises to call attention to itself, I begin to see how much room fear has occupied. What opportunity opens up!”

Ifs Thinking Reason Running Used Opportunity Felt Fear Rooms Attention Doors Noise Miserable Bags Pointless

Book:The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is

Source: The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is

“My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."”

Ifs Want Said Running Girl Father Doors Fronts Cheating Coming Out Front Doors

Author:Tracy Morgan

“If I have to be the person who opens the door for women to believe and understand and embrace the idea that they can be sexual and look good and be as relevant in their 50s or their 60s as they were in their 20s, then so be it.”

Ifs Believe Looks Persons Ideas Doors Embrace Relevant

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors.”

Ifs Night Three Hours Sleep Doors Lucky Busy Get Up Addict Alcoholics Bipolar Slamming Doors

Author:David Feherty

“Knock on wood is a saying for good luck. I think that started when someone went to someone's door to see if someone was home. "I hope Joe's home, knock on wood!"”

Ifs Thinking Home Humor Funny Doors Luck Woods Good Luck

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Sometimes you're pushing and what you want to do is not coming with ease; doors are not opening. A lot of times we're pushing against resistance. If one looks closely, there is often a message in that resistance: "Wait a minute, maybe it's not what you're supposed to be doing."”

Ifs Want Looks Sometimes Waiting Doors Minutes Messages What You Want Resistance Opening Supposed To Be Ease Pushing

Author:Farrah Gray

“A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Sometimes Play Together Reading Actors Records Cutting Doors Stage Scripts Don't Trust Stage Directions

Author:Al Pacino

“I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it.”

Ifs Made Life Is Courses Mistake Cases Doors Athlete Accepted Opening Cracks Private Life

Author:Oliver Kahn

“What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!”

Ifs Whole Shows Humor Funny Choices Doors Wall Sitting Train Prize Locked Multiple Toilets Slides Anything Goes Quiz Multiple Choice Unveiling Quiz Show

Author:Frankie Boyle

“As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.”

Ifs Believe Helping Jobs Belief Teacher Doors Teaching Philosophical Don't Believe Presenting Believe You Can Better Jobs

Author:William H. Gass