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“Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened before the First World War and it wasn't just the soldiers. You can see it happening if you read the Bloomsbury biographies. It was a reaction to a great extent against Victorianism. There was so much that was repressive and stuffy. Victorian buildings were associated with it, and they were regarded as very ugly. Even when they weren't ugly, people made them ugly. They were painted hideously.”

“People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. The things that are happening in Detroit would amaze you if you're used to only looking at statistics, and only thinking of blacks as sufferers and not as activists.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Children Jobs Used Huge Revolution Happenings Starting Statistics Activist Gardening Urban Detroit Sufferers Huge Changes

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.”

Ifs Men Mind Children Energy Development Happenings Areas Faults Average Average Man Grandiose Rural Areas

Author:Chinua Achebe

“My biggest achievement is raising a healthy, happy family. As far as regrets, I don't really have too many. Although I've gone through some things in my life that didn't feel too good while they were happening, they allowed me to mature and develop into the man I am today. Those moments have taught me a lot. I wouldn't be the same person if I hadn't had those experiences.”

Ifs Men Feels Persons Moments Today Gone Taught He Man Regret Healthy Achievement Happenings Mature Happy Family Healthy Happy

Author:Snoop Dogg

“You got to do well at your craft ultimately, especially if you know that people are observing you and watching you and you don't want to get out there and produce subpar work. Because that's how people look at it. They don't just look at you as an athlete, they look at it as o you're an athlete and you're a Christian, what's happening now?”

People Ifs Knows Want Wells Looks Christian Produce Happenings Athlete Crafts Observing

Author:LeCrae

“I've never been one to say I know exactly that we're in the last days, but there's some things happening these days, both good and bad, that make me wonder if we may be heading into the final generation. One of the good things that's happening is that little by little we're taking the gospel to the whole world. But at the same time there is this resistance.”

Ifs Knows World May Littles Whole Lasts Wonder Generations Happenings Good Things Finals Things Happen Whole World Resistance These Days Good And Bad Headings Last Day

Author:Max Lucado

“The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.”

“All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one day we'll be able to make more accurate financial forecasts - for a stock or even the entire market.”

Ifs Able Decision Brain One Day Happenings Investment Financial Accurate Forecasts Maybe One Day

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.”

Ifs Should Ideas Film Artist Turns Sides Happened Crazy Industry Happenings Should Have Studios Good Ideas Music Industry Bad Ideas

Author:David Lynch

“In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.”

Ifs Happenings Jokes

Author:Lynda Barry

“But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.”

Ifs Thinking Years Looks States Law Challenges United United States Happenings Years Ago Focused Law Enforcement Enforcement Fbi

Author:Robert Mueller

“I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.”

Ifs Knows Felt Saws Happenings Angry Confused Racing Frustrated

Author:Jimmy Nail

“I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.”

Ifs Mean Care Enjoy Alive Happenings Jokes Good Things Don't Care I Don't Care Bad Things Enjoy Life Remembering Her

Author:Joan Rivers

“When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.”

Ifs World Way Feels Writing Book Life Is Rooms Happenings Personal Life Writing A Book Concentrating

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.”

Ifs Firsts May Art Two Shows Culture Water Imagine Huge Happenings Fairs Crosses Towns Great Things Visuals Annoying New Yorkers

Author:Jerry Saltz

“As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.”

Ifs Directors Happenings Making Changes

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.”

People Ifs Knows Reason Dark Emotion Information News Happenings Expectations Negative Bad News Negative Emotions

Author:Simon Sinek

“The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.”

Ifs Has Beens Stills Lines Failing Events Happenings Evidence Scientist Climate Extremes Decades Weather Flood Severe Frequency Drought Predicting Extreme Weather

Author:David Suzuki

“I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.”

Ifs Walks Ready Scene Happenings Lit

Author:Debra Winger

“You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.”

Ifs Way Looks Ideas Happens Justice Doubt Honest Fool Happenings Commitment Concern Equality Piety Farce

Author:Bono

“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.”

Ifs War Eye Today Lasts Fashion Horror Happenings Rounds Horrible Horrible Things

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.”

Ifs Different Self Dream Past Suffering Wish Enjoy Half Alive Missing Tears Right Now Happenings Pity Self Pity Living In The Past Four Agreements

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.”

Ifs Happenings Okay

Book:Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15

Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15

“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Destiny Happenings Floating Breeze Mama

Author:Winston Groom

“If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.”

Ifs Persons Stills Happenings Don't Change

Book:The Gum Thief: A Novel

Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

Ifs Feels Scene Happenings Lonely Paint Unhappy Backdrop

Book:LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

“Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”

“The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.”

Ifs Way Reality Faces Possibility Happenings Refuse Best Way Foresight Ahead Of Time

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.”

Ifs Heart Made I Can Would Be Age Mother Taken Growing Blood Son Calling Happenings Immortal Everlasting Stolen Drank Brides Foul

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.”

“Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up.”

Ifs Way Feels Years Wells Stills I Can Enough Fall Left Half Wonder Imagine Huge Happenings Wake Up Shame Wide Gaps New Year Admitting Shrinking

Author:Sarah Dessen

“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”

Ifs Moral Sacrifice Ought Happenings Importance

Book:Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Source: Famine, Affluence, and Morality

“So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.”

Ifs Hands Light Moving Faith Fall Fear Realizing Sadness Fronts Anxiety Happenings Shadow Forgotten Dear Clouds Frightened Palms

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.”

Ifs Done Answers Happened Happenings Asking I Realized

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important night of your life. Some day -some night- I hope you both may know it, with whoever it may be: the wish, stealing up on you, not to just merge bodies, but all you have, all your years, all your memories up to that point. And why should you wish to do that, if you haven't already guessed that your future too, will be shared?”

Ifs Knows Should Years May Important Different Body Might Night Wish Memories Special Havens Happenings Stealing Your Future Pillow Something Special

Author:Graham Swift

“It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.”

Ifs Feels Mean Matter Happens Young Joy Energy Differences Air Happenings Instance Saving Very Happy Jumping

Author:Daniel Handler

“It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.”

People Ifs Knows Eye Universe Happenings Ears Folly

Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.”

Ifs Love Needs Long Important Soul Body Dies Universe Waiting Loses Limits Happenings Meetings Enthusiasm Desperate Human Soul Reborn Nothing To Lose Eleven Minutes Enthusiasm For Life

Author:Paulo Coelho

“If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.”

Ifs Feels Trying Might Happenings Suicide Coward Contempt Feel Better Dresden Committing Suicide

Book:Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

“Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her hips to the beat of the distant music. 'And patience.' He spun her around slowly and back toward him. 'And it's only fun if you trust your partner.' The dip was so slow, so smooth that Kat didn't know it was happening until the world was already turned upside down and Hale's face was inches from her own. Count me in, Kat.' He squeezed her tighter. 'You should always count me in.”

Ifs Knows World Should Faces Fun Can Do Beats Happenings Down And Moved Dancing Partners Rhythm Hips Inches Smooth You Can Do It Upside Down Dip Spun Grids Lasers Hale

Author:Ally Carter

“Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to be loathed? While you’re being persecuted, you hate what’s happening to you, you hate the people who are making it happen; you’re in a world of hate. Why, you wouldn’t recognize love if you met it! You’d suspect love! You’d think there was something behind it—some motive—some trick.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Should Happens Hate Behinds Nice Love You Mets Happenings Tricks Motive Suspects Nasty Persecuted

Book:A single man

Source: A single man

“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”

“Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying.”

Ifs Thinking Years Two Lasts Enjoy Imagine Feet Thousand Happenings Flying Destroyed Thirty Wheels Two Years Vehicle Futuristic

Author:Nora Roberts

“What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.”

Ifs Knows Feels Wells Mean Might House Enjoy Happenings Murder

Book:Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries

Source: Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries

“Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.”

“Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”

Ifs World Two Our Lives Minutes Happenings Bliss Outside World Inexplicable

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.”

Source: Psychotherapy East & West

“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?”

Source: Perfect You

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

Ifs Remember Loss Happened Happenings Remember Something

Book:Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.”

Ifs Moments Dream Felt Millions Tears Happenings Understood Treats Stronger Prepared Touched That Moment

Author:Ai Yazawa

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