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“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Use Used Three House Given Taken Fields Return Garden Claims Possession Owners Three Years

Author:Hammurabi

“If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our eyes to Him and think of Him as our Elder Brother who has all power given to Him in Heaven and on earth. He says, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.'”

Ifs Thinking World Ends Eye Earth Christian Given Heaven Christ Can Do Brother All Things Weak Lifts Elders End Of The World

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.”

Ifs Real Christian Given Sound Blood Son Doctrine Redemption Denied Given Up Worldliness Sound Doctrine

Author:Arno C. Gaebelein

“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given.”

Ifs World Firsts War States Motivational Choices Given Differences My Own Poverty One Thing Television Equal Disease Fairs Affair Making A Difference Reports Better Place Famine

Author:Chrissie Wellington

“If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Wells Two Spiritual Given Materials Yoga Karma Intense Two Years Selfless God Exists Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Given This World Yoga Karma Outstanding Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?”

Ifs Thinking World Persons Life Is Given Answers Known Prepared Curious Preparation Colleagues Domain Sequence

Author:Edwin Land

“If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Enough Feelings Care Opportunity Given Understanding Special Lucky

Author:Natalie Portman

“All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Form Given Imagination Mistake Painting Concepts Permanent

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look for him. One hears it said that 'God is the ultimate' or 'God is our better nature' or 'God is the universe.' Of course, like any other word, the word 'God' can be given any meaning we like. If you want to say that 'God is energy,' then you can find God in a lump of coal.”

People Ifs Want Looks Said Universe Courses Energy Given Views Ultimate Inevitable Broads Coal Flexible Lumps

Book:Dreams of a Final Theory

Source: Dreams of a Final Theory

“If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.”

Ifs Should Important Reality School Certain Given Issues Discipline Creating Organization Function Important Things Principal Given Up School Principal

Author:Itay Talgam

“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.”

Ifs Happiness Joy Given Laughing Special Laughter Smile Luxury Birthday Wise Birthday Smile And Laugh Special Gifts Smile Laugh

Author:Brad Garrett

“I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.”

People Ifs Trying Believe Enough Given I Believe Party Creative Produce Projects Generous Best Work Creative People

Author:William Kempe

“I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Country Done Government School Jobs Culture Given Sports Taken Mark Right Way Good Job Curriculum Maharashtra

Author:Gagan Narang

“If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.”

Ifs Dies Given Scared Live Life

Book:Slammed

Source: Slammed

“We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters.”

Ifs Littles Remember Speak Given Mankind Brother Office Regard Mortals Brotherhood Portions Elsewhere Brothers And Sisters Parking Elevators Parking Lot

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!”

People Ifs World Persons Stills Different Earth Given Issues Feet Land Objects Fit Areas Size Surface Texas Squares Cents Texan

Author:Michael Coren

“GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defense of God's goodness in spite of the undeniable reality of evil. . . . This is an honest and hard-hitting book about God's grace in and through tremendous loss of health and strength. Readers will find hope and help here if they are open to its message about the God-given 'strength to suffer well.'”

“Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.”

Ifs Men Should Given Moral Generations College Ought Intellectual Training Ideals Welfare Effectiveness College Education Scholarly Best Education

Author:M. Carey Thomas

“A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.”

Ifs Men Needs May Dream Would Be Form Turns Given Waking Dreamer Casting

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.”

People Ifs Knows Given Can Do Research Resources Miraculous Labs

Author:Randy Pausch

“You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.”

Ifs Knows Two Eye Choices Reading Given Hell Havens Criticism Critical Awful Reform Panic Frantic Glare Two Choices

Author:Saul Bellow

“As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.”

Ifs Has Beens Today Beautiful Given My Own Greater Regret Mark Winner Prize Awards Nobel Nobel Prize Countrymen Nobel Prize Winners

Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

“It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.”

Ifs Country Hard Age Given Difficult Amount Chinese Transition New Things Back And Forth Kindergarten Pivotal Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Lucy Liu

“If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.”

Ifs Men Giving Said Care Together Law Given Born He Man Return One Day Cooking Property Rounds Tiny Mortals Extras Pot Alas Neighbour Borrowed Offspring

Book:The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin

Source: The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin

“If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.”

Ifs Given Heaven Grows Thousand Thanks France Soil

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Doe Real States Care Order Turns Given Process Situation Cutting Objects Particular Creatures Affair Take Care Contradiction Affected

Book:Notebooks for an Ethics

Source: Notebooks for an Ethics

“The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Whole Given Chance Kings Capable Constitution Assumption

Author:A. P. Herbert

“God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. If thou read with understanding, it will make thee a great master of philosophy, and a true servant of the divine Author: if thou but barely read, it will make thee thine own wise man and the Author's fool.”

Ifs Men Book Philosophy Given Understanding Common Wise Mankind Divine Masters Fool Creatures Library Every Man Thee Servant

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.”

Ifs Two Ideas Different Three Given Attention Extraordinary Manage Attention Span Best Gift Different Ideas

Author:Paul Newman

“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”

Ifs Needs Should Book America Given Chance Mystery Taste Succeed Should Have Sells Ashamed Trash

Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

“How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.”

People Ifs Knows World Trying Mean Said Young Used Guy Given Boys Know How Modern Advice Let Me Used To Be Spots Modern World

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.”

Ifs Knows Giving Long Book Past Asks Given Answers Written Periods Ask Me This Day Given Up

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.”

Ifs Way Energy Given Grows Christ Conditions Increase Infinite Immortal Wiser Observant

Author:Alexander MacLaren

“The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).”

“God has given us a gift in Jesus Christ. And people don't understand: it's for our benefit. One of the things that says, "For unto you is born this day a savior." They say, "Well, I don't need a savior." Believe me: if you didn't need one, God wouldn't have sent it. Because he wouldn't have wasted the time.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Wells Jesus Given Christ Born Benefits Jesus Christ This Day Savior Believe In Me

Author:Rick Warren

“Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.”

Ifs Trying Seems Order Given Failing Harmony Following Disorder Truest Awkwardness

Book:Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter

Source: Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter

“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a love for the poor; Billy Graham, a gift for preaching; and Joni Eareckson Tada, a disability. What did they have in common? A willingness to let God use whatever they had, even when it didn't seem very useful. If you will assess what you have to offer in terms of your time, your treasure, and your talents, you will have a better understanding of how you might uniquely serve.”

Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World

“It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for us to tap into, if we can discover what we love. If you feel energy and excitement and a sense that life is happening for the first time, you are probably near your God-given nature. Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Life Is Joy Energy Given Waiting Alive Elements Happenings First Time Features Excitement Occupation Vitality Imperatives

Author:Mark Nepo

“Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.”

Source: Emile: Or, On Education

“You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.”

Ifs Persons Law Given Grace Mercy Fortune Fixed Resolution Governors Sober Industrious

Author:William Penn

“If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.”

Ifs Love Heart Lost Given Creatures Beast Given Up Heartless Loveless Dark Tower Series

Book:The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

“I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.”

Ifs Way May Mean Done Enough Given Break Tears Limits Remains Affair Tire Anarchism Break Through Toiling

Author:Max Stirner

“If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in the enjoyment of the fullness of the Holy Ghost constantly day by day, there is nothing on the face of the earth that they could ask for, that would not be given to them. The Lord is waiting to be very gracious unto this people, and to pour out upon them riches, honor, glory, and power, even that they may possess all things according to the promises He has made through His apostles and prophets.”

“I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”

Ifs Thinking Country Given Conditions Brother Indian Awards Altered Keepers Inappropriate American Indian Executioners

Author:Marlon Brando

“For I've finally realized that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.”

People Ifs Way I Can Moments Helping Eye Faces Given Praying Stronger Raises My Way Given Up

Author:Gloria Estefan

“You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.”

Ifs Knows Lasts Young Given Roles Materials Tomorrow Shots Dignity Satisfied Best Shot

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.”

Ifs May Given Broken Reproach

Book:Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents

Source: Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents