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“If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.”

Ifs Men Firsts Humans Opinion Five Genius Conversation Hundred First Time Window League Naples

Author:Madame de Stael

“In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.”

People Ifs Said Pages Hundred Vote Blame Fearful Patriot Nsa Aftermath Patriot Act Blame Me

Author:Rand Paul

“If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.”

Ifs Want Persons Real Couple Capable Hundred Population Scare Crap

Author:Charlie Kelly

“The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.”

Ifs Want Song Humanity Easy Technology Records Too Much Four Hundred Tools Performances Guitar Track Productions Rebel Mentality Spontaneity Spoiled Overthinking

Author:Jack White

“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”

Ifs Want Years Littles Two Ideas School Law Fun Bits Can Do Four Worst College Fine Thousand Little Bit Hundred Okay Dollars Debt What You Want Four Years Worst Things Law School

Author:Tucker Max

“Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.”

Ifs Thinking Years Littles Long Has Beens Sometimes Dream Age Faces Three Next Study Hundred Three Years Portraits Next Day Three Year Olds

Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

“Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.”

Ifs Looks Doe Important Enough Feelings Eye Chance Brain Events Terrible Hundred Ears Extraordinary Privilege Woods Journalism Encounters Anguish Worms Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.”

Ifs Enough Shows Used Internet Succeed Hundred Stones Radio Used To Be Just One Tonight Stations Rolling Small Things Spotlight Rolling Stones Radio Stations

Author:Teddy Thompson

“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.”

“I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Way Mind Looks May States Waiting Natural Millions Psychology Reader Thousand Solitude Conscious Hundred Scientist Oneself Worthy Intense Crowded Nests

Author:Nina Berberova

“If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.”

Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.”

People Ifs Has Beens Country Lasts Heaven Poor Lord Blood Land Fields Arms Battle Hundred Foundation Slave Soldier Bones Sweat Shelter Peasants Mansions Be A Slave Saturated

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.”

Source: Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild

“Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.”

Ifs Book Values Deals Written Hundred Ceremony Rite Alterations

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.”

Ifs World Years Two Character Home Lasts Found Waiting Cases Comedy Wife Poet Hundred Critics Queens Opera Merry Queen Elizabeth True Home Windsor Falstaff Verdi

Author:W. H. Auden

“Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.”

People Ifs Character Would Be Walks Feet Republican Hundred Democrat Deeds Be Good Swim Shore Good Deeds Rope Drowning

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

“How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.”

Ifs Lying Belief Mankind Hundred Credit Superstitions

Book:Ricordi

Source: Ricordi

“No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.”

Ifs Way Believe Reality Running Actors I Believe Acting Hundred Breaths Method Scripts Preparation Preparing

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.”

“I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit.”

Ifs Watches Five Nice Crazy Six Hundred Suits Collectors

Author:Mark Teixeira

“One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.”

People Ifs Knows Mean I Can Voice Doubt Percent Hundred

Author:Sam Smith

“If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? When it wasn't spitting twenties no more. As long as you can take the money out, you'd stay there. That's what the wrestling business is like.”

Ifs Long Walks Hundred Twenties Dollars Wrestling Atm

Author:Kevin Nash

“You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.” As sane people know, it doesn't work that way. A hundred drinks feels terrible. Bad things happen. But the addict keeps at it, thinking at some point it's going to get good again The point is to not feel what you're feeling. The problem is, you become someone you never thought you would become, and you have no idea how you got there.”

Source: Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life

“Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.”

Ifs Way Years Looks Stills Home Night Space Air Travel Hundred Clean Leaving Los Angeles Interstellar Smog

Author:Larry Niven

“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."”

Ifs Inspirational Children Littles Helping Hands Waiting Poor Sky Changed Creatures Hundred Constant Ridiculous Fairy Ninety Eighty

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces

“If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.”

Ifs Way May Kindness Hundred Deeds Good Deeds Small Kindnesses

Author:Sarah Doudney

“If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“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

“We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.”

“If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.”

Ifs Years Believe Humans Humanity Consciousness Civilization Hundred Species Don't Believe Don't Change Human Civilization

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. You see the brands - Nike, Puma, Coke - all over their bodies. Pretty soon you'll go to a family and say, "$100,000 if we can tattoo Pepsi on your child's forehead, and we'll have it removed when he's twenty-one. A hundred grand."”

Ifs Children Body Bigs America Hundred Twenties Brands Your Children Buying Usual Tattoo Marketplace Foreheads Herds Twenty One Coke Cattle Nike Branded Pepsi

Author:George Carlin

“My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.”

Ifs Way Want Said Truth Beautiful Imagination Liberty Wall Spring Hundred Paint Landscape Autobiography Wintertime Beautiful Landscapes Bastille

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.”

Ifs Years Night Sides Rooms Numbers Greater Hundred Window Shining Palaces

Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

“I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!”

Ifs Men Should Years Individual Youth Amount Equal Hundred Twenties Eight If I Could Ems Pounds Halls Schooling Sixteen Present Time Fondness Tuition

Author:Charles Dickens

“I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.”

Ifs Men Feelings Body Would Be Women Decision Millions Struggle Issues Benefits Hundred Bills Court Nine Reports Pregnant Fifteen Committees Legislation Symbolic Appearing Maternity

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.”

Ifs Country Today Money Tomorrow Hundred Gold Tables Bills Dollars Finance Silver Cash Pennies Noon Circulation Peppermint

Book:Love Conquers All

Source: Love Conquers All

“Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.”

Ifs Knows Needs Years Facts Would Be Change Four Changed Theory Becoming Hundred Constant Radical Now And Then Becoming More Reconstruction Scientific Theory Gravitation

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.”

Ifs Thinking Might Loss Hundred Sight Aging Dumb If I Could Blindness Deaf Deaf And Dumb

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”

Ifs Years May Long Stills Age Pleasure Study Century Civilization Thousand Long Time Hundred Unity Thousand Years Geology Extending

Book:The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

Source: The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

“There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.”

“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”

“Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if we shoot our opponents a hundred times and hit every time. As long as they've hit us once, we've lost, because the U.S. is so much more reliant on those systems.”

Ifs Long Matter Lost Walks Fields Internet Battle Hundred Opponents

Author:Edward Snowden

“[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.”

Ifs Persons Government Taught Thousand Hundred Murder

Author:Howard Zinn

“If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?”

People Ifs Giving Trying Persons Problem Happens Three Issues Thousand Ten Solutions Hundred Busy Arguing Settling Concrete Lectures Too Busy Analyzing

Author:Elias Chacour

“If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.”

Ifs Games Winning Four Hundred Manage Streaks

Author:Casey Stengel

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

Ifs Way Years Looks Has Beens Said Done Home Bigs Three Easy Simple Numbers Taken Five Advice New York Hundred Red Former Hopefully Managers Five Years Halls No Brainer General Manager

Author:Roger Clemens

“You have to understand what they (pitchers) do. That's my job. You have to find a way to get them through the game if they're not feeling good. When everything is going good and they're feeling one-hundred percent, it's my job to keep them that way. And you know what? If I see something, I'm going to let them know.”

Ifs Knows Way Feelings Jobs Games Percent Hundred Feel Good What If Pitcher Not Feeling Good

Author:Jorge Posada

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

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