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Source: Complete Essays

“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.”

Ifs Care My Own Rooms Positive Hair Gains Negative Weight Impact Caring Take Care Take Care Of Yourself Weighing Caring Too Much

Book:Openly Straight

Source: Openly Straight

“Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.”

Ifs Fire Gains Neglected

Author:Horace

“If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.”

Ifs Men Giving Two Loses Gains Candle Disposition Another Man Lighting

Author:William Penn

“If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.”

Ifs Happens Action Gains Terrorism Reverse Globalization Incumbents

Author:Alan Greenspan

“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

“If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.”

Ifs World Influence Position Exercise Gains Unions Blow Communist Lanes Transport Staggering Free World

Author:Robert Kennedy

“Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.”

Ifs Courses Asks Liberty Victory Gains Permission

Book:Open Confession to a Man from a Woman

Source: Open Confession to a Man from a Woman

“If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.”

Ifs Humans Loses Race Gains Human Race Rebellion Conformity Permission Goodwill

Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science

“If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.”

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.”

Ifs Knows Way Humans Hard Certain Evil Liberty Special Return Gains Ideals Response Strikes Firm Retreat Always Believe Great Idea Audacity Human Freedom

Author:George W. Bush

“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”

“If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mind May Together Lasts Suffering Victory Gains Standing Meetings Defeat Fear Of Death Facing Death

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.”

Ifs Men Stills Humanity Turns Prove Gains Destruction Mad Chaos Sheer Predicting Perversity

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.”

People Ifs Men Giving Years Firsts I Can Matter Wanted Grows Talking Growing Up Records Five Son Gains Gold No Matter What Parenting Phones Artistic Old Man Being There Sean Motorbike

Author:John Lennon

“The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.”

“Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world.”

Ifs World Soul Love Is Moral Sun Gains Thrive Egoism Departed Acts Of Love World Love

Book:Love & Its Meaning in the World

Source: Love & Its Meaning in the World

“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

“When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.”

Ifs Firsts Bits Behinds Gains Murder Starting Temptation Rhythm Get Away Distortion Guitarist Starting Out

Author:Kirk Hammett

“If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.”

Ifs Knows World Believe Country Pay Atheism Cost Hundred Gains Privilege Positive Atheism Pounds Smallest Coins Libel Recompense

Author:Charles Bradlaugh

“If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.”

Ifs Ends Hands Loss Progress Type Gains Zero Capitalist Technological Technological Progress

Author:Peter Thiel

“... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.”

“I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it."”

People Ifs Trying Years Firsts Said Whole Pain Like You Gains Magazines Weekend Keep Trying Crossroads Without Pain

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.”

“For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?”

Ifs Wells May Self Seems Form Courses Grows Growth Loss Secret Dangerous Goes On Safe Gains Atmosphere

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, thats what you expect to gain.”

Ifs Thinking Love Is Baby Gains Honey Funny Things

Author:Jimmy Reed

“We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.”

Ifs Plans Gains Dollars Enterprise Venture Pennies

Book:T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

Source: T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

“Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness is Adophe Monod at his best. It is a masterpiece, bringing together profound comfort, realistic understanding, practical wisdom, and heavenly glory for every believer and, in a special way, for those who are preparing for or are working directly in some ministry. By the Spirit's grace, if you digest Monod's book slowly, seriously, and prayerfully, you will make great spiritual gain as you engage in holy warfare against your own temptations and lusts. You really must read this book.”

“If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.”

People Ifs Men Trying Littles Certain Wish Justice Grace Weakness Gains Affection Merit Dominant

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.”

Ifs World States Nations Interest Wealth United United States Produce Inspire Directors Gains Financial Substance Boards Investors Moderates Imperatives Board Of Directors

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.”

“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Firsts May Real Death Evil Natural Loss Acting Ought Sorrow Illusion Gains Overcoming Errors Separation Evident Weeping Happier Life

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.”

Ifs Art Easy Style Gains Unusual Industrious

Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“But if you stagnate, the growth is over. I have done many comedy films. Success of films like Partner, Singh is Kinng gets you to a very wide audience reach. But for greater gains, you need to take greater gambles. If it works, you get respect and recognition.”

Ifs Needs Done Film Growth Audience Comedy Greater Gains Wide Partners Recognition Gamble Singh

Author:Katrina Kaif

“To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.”

Ifs Knows Wells Late Gains

Author:Sophocles

“You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.”

Ifs Mistake Pieces Gains Advantage Fortune Extraordinary Reputation Honour You Choose Expecting Good Fortune

Book:History of Greece

Source: History of Greece

“To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.”

Ifs Happens Jobs Education Theory Citizens Equal Gains Majority Access Treated Revolutionary Decent Killers Ideologues

Author:Ian Buruma

“If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.”

Ifs Want Sacrifice Gains I Have Learned Want Something

Author:Catherine Ndereba

“Your ideal body weight as an ectomorph at 6' 0" will be 214.378 lbs. There. Happy? And if you lose or gain a pound, I will have you killed. It is important to be ideal.”

Ifs Important Body Loses Gains Ideals Weight Pounds Body Weight

Author:Mark Rippetoe

“Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.”

Ifs Way Age Remember Chance Loss Forget Wonder Adults Gains Tied Take A Chance Cautious Havoc

Book:A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

Source: A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

“If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish, faulty, or shameful specimens of humanity. They will regard us as judges from whom they wish to hide, and they will interpret everything we say as further proof of their unworthiness. If we view them as innocent, or at least merely ignorant, they will gain understanding from their experiences, and they will continue to regard us as wise partners.”

Ifs Children Humanity Wish Understanding Views Wise Stupid Judging Gains Regard Our Children Proof Partners Foolish Ignorant Innocent Guilty Disturbed Shameful Naughty Misdeeds

Book:Whole child, whole parent

Source: Whole child, whole parent

“If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?”

Ifs Kind Self Body Asks Dangerous Depends Healthy Gains Painful Self Confidence Operations Expensive Breasts Implants Healthy Body Breast Implants

Author:Katha Pollitt

“Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.”

Ifs Want May Courses Effort One Thing Materials Promise Gains Majority Good Things Obvious Executives Presidency Impetus

Author:Felix Morley

“I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If the woman needs to be more soft I'll gain weight and then I'll lose weight for another film that I did where I wanted her to be more wiry. I enjoy using my body as something that helps me get to a character.”

Ifs Needs Character Helping Body Wanted Film Enjoy Loses Stage Shapes Gains Weight Various Help Me Lose Weight

Author:Sandra Bullock

“When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.”

Ifs I Can Five Four Gains Weight Stress Add Careful Knees Pounds Portions Workout Because I Can Overweight

Author:Richard Simmons

“I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.”

Ifs My Own Class Careers Teach Exercise Gains Weight Studios Compulsion

Author:Richard Simmons

“If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.”

Ifs Hours Half Poet Gains Richness Spun

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.”

Ifs Bigs Earth Past Faces Realizing Rooms Deals Too Much Gains Edges Big Deal Living On Living On The Edge

Author:Farrah Gray

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”

Ifs Two Hands Asks Friendship Loses Accepting Judging Friends Gains Catholic Saint Stranger Disputes Request Hippo One Friend Two Friends Christian Friends

Author:Saint Augustine

“Early in my career it was very important that I gain the reputation. I haven't been on the road in two or three years, but when I say tickets are on sale, I know they're going to be gone, even if my movie bombed or my TV show sucked.”

Ifs Knows Years Two Important Shows Three Careers Gone Havens Tvs Gains Reputation Three Years Tickets Tv Shows

Author:Chris Rock

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