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“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?”

Ifs Knows Heaven Imagination Imagine Knowing God

Author:Katherine Paterson

“There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Two Character Names Sound Struggle Trouble Findings Letters

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.”

Ifs Knows Strong Born Cases Ego Anxiety Terror Supreme Gifted Supreme Confidence High Anxiety

Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.”

People Ifs Knows World Light Wish Dark Chaos

Author:Brendan Fraser

“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.”

Ifs Knows Years Has Beens Feelings Girl President White Disease Aids Saved Horrible Priests Affected Teenage Epidemics Teenage Girl Pta

Author:David Levithan

“My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Kind I Can Whole Jobs Challenges Know How Succeed Give Me Whole Life Welcome Doubted Doubters

Author:Dwyane Wade

“If you don't get offended by somebody scoring on you then I don't know what to tell you. That is like somebody breaking into your house and just taking your video game out of your hand and you just let it happen. I know if you do that to me, it ain't going to happen. I love my Xbox.”

Ifs Knows Hands Happens Games House Video Offended Xbox

Author:J. R. Smith

“When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?”

Ifs Knows Should Mean Littles Desire Passion Father Known Creatures Glory Our Father Knowing God Homage

Author:John Calvin

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!”

Ifs Knows Light Realizing Answers Dog Totality

Book:Franz Kafka Vol 2

Source: Franz Kafka Vol 2

“If your life is in disarray and you feel uncomfortable and unworthy to pray because you are not clean, don't worry. He already knows about all of that. He is waiting for you to kneel in humility and take the first few steps. Pray for strength. Pray for others to be led to support you and guide you and lift you. Pray that the love of the Savior will pour into your heart. Pray that the miracle of the Atonement will bring forgiveness because you are willing to change. I know that those prayers will be answered, for God loves you. His Son gave his life for you. I know they will help you.”

“When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Half Revolution Fine Men And Women Feminist Oppressed Other Half Hardcore

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.”

Ifs Knows Men Tradition Progressive Ancestor

Author:Walter Lippmann

“I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Humans Human Beings Appreciate Performers

Author:Mel Torme

“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want I Can Stories Light Past Girl Needed Terrible Opposites Seasons Shining Golden Wicked Get Back Prime Do You Know Springtime Parish Daffodil

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.”

Ifs Knows Poor Share Forests Monkeys Gorillas

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything”

People Ifs Knows Christian Asks Heaven Too Much Commit Hey

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.”

Ifs Knows Kind Soul Rocks Jazz Hip Hop Pops Hips Alternatives Classic Hops Classic Rock Brazilian Music

Author:John Legend

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells May Hands Values Ought Amount Library Possession Compare Disorder

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.”

Ifs Knows Men Important Play He Man Lessons Gun Shots Tricks Hips Winner Shooting Poison Contempt Officers Frontiers Important Lessons Flashy

Author:Wyatt Earp

“I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.”

Ifs Knows Salad Caesar Salad

Author:Paula Poundstone

“That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.”

Ifs Knows Want Records Track Hip Hop Hips Being The Best Hops Unwritten Unwritten Rules

Author:Ja Rule

“If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole”

Ifs Knows Made Whole If I Could Garments Hem

Author:Sam Cooke

“Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Giving Wells Development Directors Series Notes Work Out Good Experiences

Author:Sue Naegle

“If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.”

Ifs Knows Lying Answers Asking Edges Boundaries Competence

Author:Charlie Munger

“There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?”

Ifs Knows Mean Tree News Cat Cnn Piers

Author:Noel Gallagher

“If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Four Argument Repeats

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows he’s got the urine. ‘How would you like to have a million dollars?’ … Such things have been known to happen.”

Ifs Knows Way Has Beens Done Happens Known Millions Dollars Workers Come Up Damage Million Dollars Labs Containers

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.”

Ifs Knows Humans Important Action Situation Normal Important Things Interfere Antidote

Author:John Herschel

“I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Art Real School Half Draws Prepared Real Life Schooling Art School

Author:Dave Gibbons

“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Made Said Stills Running Wanted Mother Night Hurt Broken Fine Injury Toes Lap I Was Hurt

Author:Ronda Rousey

“So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Littles School Night Guy Stars Students High School Pops Insane What If Montana Pop Stars High School Students Hannah Montana Thinking What If

Author:Eli Roth

“I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.”

Ifs Knows Humans Belief Human Beings Teach Trump Logic Honestly Traditional Ideology Vulnerability Purity Gracious Vanquish

Author:Irwin Kula

“You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are”

Ifs Knows Values Ambiguous

Author:Dan Pallotta

“If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.”

Ifs Knows Should Hot Dry Tied Beaten Rope Corn Stoves Vat

Author:Denise Chavez

“I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.”

Ifs Knows Said Book Whole Stories Generations Development Personal Development Whole Life Practicals Relatable Life Story Combining

Author:Jeff Olson

“If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Book Know Yourself Writing A Book

Author:Shereen El Feki

“Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.”

“I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.”

Ifs Knows Years Today Able Five Feet France Five Years

Author:Francois Hollande

“I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.”

Ifs Knows Secret Failing Secret To Success

Author:Sonam Kapoor

“Success is a moving target. I don't think we ever achieve “it”, at least in our own minds. But I do know this, if you think you have achieved your greatest success you clearly have decided to stop pushing yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Moving Achieve Decided Pushing Target Push Yourself Greatest Success

Author:Mike Michalowicz

“If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Hard Running Know How Forever Risk Love You Extras Tango Love You Forever

Author:Sherman Alexie

“If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.”

“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.”

People Ifs Knows Wells May Mean Persons Spirit Lying Fall Speak Strong Grows Causes Acting Situation Influence Benefits Sight Shame Conviction Reactions Objectives Liberation Confused

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.”

People Ifs Knows Way Needs Believe Helping Responsibility Athlete Who We Are Professional Athlete

Author:Bobby Orr

“How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh!”

Ifs Knows Men Action Fall Walks Arms Flesh Falling Apart Walking With God

Author:David Wilkerson

“If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.”

Ifs Knows Want Opportunity What You Want

Author:John Goddard

“I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.”

Ifs Knows Looks Happens Guy Simple Simple Guy

Author:Mariano Rivera

“I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Today Courses Games Winning Loses Obvious Feel Good

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.”

Ifs Knows Men Mean War Simple Perpetual Outrage Artillery Simple Man

Book:The day's burden and other essays

Source: The day's burden and other essays

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