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“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.”

Ifs Want Writing Song Fall Girl Trouble Easier Red Dresses Bars Chairs Tonight Say Anything Fifth Martini Falling Off

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.”

Ifs Night Fall Silence Beats Green Sticks Fruit Accord Ripe

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.”

Ifs Mind Fall Views Break Glasses Point Of View Sheep

Author:Damien Hirst

“Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the Brothers Grimm set.] Terry knows what he wants, ... He's very demanding, but in a positive and generous way. And if you're up to it, it's very exciting. If you're not, you fall by the wayside.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Fall Brother Exciting Chaos Generous Veteran Brazil Grimm Brothers Grimm

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.”

Ifs Art Feelings Fall Wall Cold Paint Studios Warm Profession Feel Good Painter Falling Down Sculptors Not Feeling Good

Author:Jack White

“If we get too far ahead of ourselves we will fall over.”

Ifs Fall

Author:Graham Henry

“Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do because it involves so many characters. But, again, you dont need to know all the details. Obviously the mainstays are there Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and heavily focused on. There are a ton of great characters, and a lot happens to them over the course of Infinite Crisis . Some change and evolve, others fall, but it really is about trying to bring everybody on stage. We probably have 90 percent of the DCU showing up, if not more but without losing focus on what the story is.”

“In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.”

Ifs Years Moments Faces Fall Saws Minutes Dying Wall Thousand Buddhist Caves Acid Persona Drunkenness Seventeen One Minute Seventeen Years Old Acid Trip

Author:Francesco Clemente

“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.”

“When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.”

Ifs Want Life Real Care Fall Issues Smart Falling In Love Take Care Apples Being Real Senior Competence Hiring Really Smart

Author:Steve Jobs

“Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.”

Ifs May Light Fall Numbers Virtue Greater Faults Strive Commit Neglect Repentance Large Numbers

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Order Fall Share Mankind Species Casts Unhappy Division Misfortunes Possessed

Author:Socrates

“If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.”

Ifs Care Fall Compassion Picks Sparrows

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.”

Ifs Might Fall Expression Leap

Author:Lisa Loeb

“British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs. They also believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.”

Ifs Believe Mean Hands Bigs Fall Lost Sleep White Ten Humorous Israel British Teeth Fairy Britain Yellow Tribes Pillow Measurement Pyramids Anglo Saxon

Author:Mike Harding

“I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Motivation Fall Easy Painting Abstract Abstraction Abstract Painting Pastiche

Author:Joe Bradley

“You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Wells Faces Fall Challenges Comedy One Thing Terrible Your Face Challenge Yourself Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Lucy Liu

“To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Feelings Hands Fall Love Is Steps Losing Falling In Love First Steps Balanced Uneasy Uneasy Feelings

Author:Joan Juliet Buck

“When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.”

Ifs May Has Beens Fall Tree Strength Wind Roots Weak Blow Firm Stakes Fierce

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable.”

Ifs Children States Fall Left Goal Numbers Behinds Standards Cracks Allowing Left Behind Large Numbers Disadvantaged No Child Left Behind

Author:Roy Barnes

“I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.”

People Ifs Persons Fall Wonder Falling In Love Characteristics

Book:The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill

Source: The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill

“I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Long I Can Self Pain Fall Felt Grace Pride Self Love My Heart Absence Unconscious Affected Protected Unbelief God's Presence

Author:Christian Wiman

“The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.”

Ifs Mind Fall Force Pieces Driving Injured Driving Force

Book:Strindberg, Five Plays

Source: Strindberg, Five Plays

“As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is to make you almost live the books. I want you to fall through that page and feel as if these things are happening to you.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Book Fall Goal Achieve Pages Happenings I Want You

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.”

Ifs Way Want Years Persons Stills I Can Kids Jobs Fall Three Can Do Falling Down

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.”

Source: Democracy in America

“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Light Fall Left Speak Missing Objects Conversation Balls Dear Spheres Plates Rainbow Clay Bangs Pipe Glitter Drifting Juggling Drifting Off

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.”

Ifs World Fall Easy Sin Seeing Deserve

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.”

Ifs Use Fall Beats Math Mathematical Editors Software Engineering Precision Mapping Calculators

Author:Girl Talk

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.”

Ifs Fall Sports Football Worried Motivational Sports Bike Take A Chance Bicycle Cycling Biking Falling Off Riding A Bicycle Cyclists Bike Riding Tandem Bikes Tandem Bicycles Riding Your Bike

Book:Every Second Counts

Source: Every Second Counts

“If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that.”

Ifs Fall Universe Path Meant To Be Fall Into Place Everything Falls Into Place

Author:James Van Praagh

“I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.”

Ifs Want Should Mean Feelings Happens Age Fall Courses Work Figures Health Offers Husband Sick Intention My Husband Retiring Bob Going Out Going To Work

Author:Dolly Parton

“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.”

Ifs Firsts May Feelings Reality Fall Groups Objects Errors Instance Symbols Obedience Analysis Significance Attributes Propositions Unreal Admitting Unreality

Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Fall Boys Saws Worst Band All Time Fall Out Boy

Author:Pete Wentz

“If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.”

Ifs Earth Fall Three Force Animal Moon Distance Assuming Substance Fifty Fourth Orbit Density

Author:Johannes Kepler

“A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.”

Ifs Knows Humans Fall Human Beings Accepting Grace Equal Neighbor Severity

Author:Stefan Zweig

“We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.”

Ifs Believe Dies Fall Universe Black Mathematics Rings Holes Collapse Hitting Black Hole Follow Through

Author:Michio Kaku

“I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'”

Ifs Men Looks Said Happens Wanted Fall Actors Careers Teacher Teaching Degrees Hey Look At Me Fall Back Alberta Edmonton

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.”

Ifs Want Sometimes Fall Decision Fans Lessons Blessing Female Live Life Reach Out Pits Bad Decision

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!”

Ifs Certain Fall Dangerous Humorous Spots Meant To Be Stereotype Falling Down Stairs Dangerous Things Were Meant To Be

Author:Manila Luzon

“People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Done Order Fall Stuff Laughing Subjects Willing Being The Best New Things

Author:Laird Hamilton

“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.”

Ifs Way Trying Littles Ideas Ends Would Be Fall Process Cases Source Keys Balance Code Pens Artificial Intelligence Artificial Explosions Accelerate Rewriting Tipping Tilt Tipping Point

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.”

Ifs Thinking Certain Fall Girl Sides Black Streets Asking Ice Covered Slips Alright Lanes Certain Death Black Ice

Author:David Bowick

“You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you are willing to put up with if things don't go completely to plan, but something that still moves things forward ever so slightly?”

Ifs Should May Stills Moving Fall Plans Achieve Willing Ideals Outcomes Target Fall Back Tolerable

Author:Chris Murray

“If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.”

Ifs Humanity Fall Accepting Our Lives Humility Reflection Filled Tolerance Chains Love Life Imperfection Dependence

Author:Ernest Kurtz

“Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all”

Ifs Knows I Can Sometimes Fall Lows Come Up

Author:Bob Dylan

“Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours.... You can only clean up your side of the street.”

People Ifs Persons Two Together Fall Sides Streets Percent Clean Faults Falling Apart Your Side Coming Together

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.”

Ifs Hands Fall Hours Break Wind Glasses Profit Blow Weather Honey Bloody Day To Day

Author:Louis MacNeice

“[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Feels Trying Wells Self Values Fall Walks Views Heard Worst Judging Listening Point Of View Temptation Realms Continuing Traps Annihilation Judging You

Author:Jennifer Beals

“It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion.”

Ifs Men May Persons Self Character Fall Passion Laughing Wiser

Book:Works

Source: Works

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