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“If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.”

Author:Mu Xin

“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.”

“If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.”

Ifs Giving May Inspiration Faith Left Wind Quiet Christian Inspirational Tiny Useless Sparks Within You God's Love Chatter

Author:Carlo Borromeo

“A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?”

Ifs Should War Asks Left Enemy Fronts Chiefs What If

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Left Poor Rich Taken Minimalism Minimalist

Author:Saint Basil

“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.”

Ifs Persons Happens Dies Left Destiny Alive There Is Hope Better Days

Author:Ishmael

“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”

People Ifs Way Matter Would Be Fighting Left Security Conversation Tyranny Agency Privacy Capability Dictator National Security Telephones Telegrams

Author:Frank Church

“We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued by future generations as authentic and reliable, ... Errors in history and doctrine, if left uncorrected by us who are conversant with the events, and who are in a position to judge of the truth or falsity of the doctrines, would go to our children as though we had sanctioned and endorsed them.”

Ifs Children Names Left Wish Generations Events Position Judging Our Children Errors Doctrine Future Generation Posterity Sanctions Falsity

Author:Brigham Young

“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.”

Ifs Has Beens Use Left Nations Tendencies Meat Eggs Defects Weasels

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.”

People Ifs Men Enough Left Business Failing He Man Responsible China

Author:Will Rogers

“I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.”

Ifs Thinking Political Left Causes Cases Position Definitions Be Good Merit Examining

Author:Walter Cronkite

“GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.”

Ifs Might Left Nations Agency Civilized Employed Disputes Settlement Troublesome Gunpowder Civilized Nations

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.”

Ifs Self Care Left My Own Hell Advantage Grooming Unconcerned

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."”

Ifs Sometimes Problem Left Shirts T Shirt Slogans Grandma Left Out

Author:Mary Norris

“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”

Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

“If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.”

Ifs Trying Religion Left Rooms Teacher Core

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

“If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable.”

Ifs Children States Fall Left Goal Numbers Behinds Standards Cracks Allowing Left Behind Large Numbers Disadvantaged No Child Left Behind

Author:Roy Barnes

“The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.”

Ifs Kids Left Exercise Mouths Down And Tables Bites Household Plates Forks Leftovers Zippers

Author:Paul Stanley

“It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength.... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.”

Ifs Kind May Mean Character Used Left Wise Sorrow Conflict Elements Gold Disappointment Improvement Metals Providence Arrangements Affliction Crucible Dross

Author:William Morley Punshon

“Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.”

Ifs Men Way Done Left Rooms Wonder Heard Arms Letting Go Rounds Shoulders Intimate Hug Polite Dressings Hierarchy Left Alone Sideways Dressing Rooms

Author:Antony Sher

“Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?”

Ifs Men Would Be Left Pleasure Fantasy Chimes

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.”

“If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.”

Ifs Ideas House Left Building Structure Credit Plato Building Houses

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.”

Ifs Mind Kind Reason Done Law Universe Left Common Citizens Constitution Reasoning Undone Commonwealth

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.”

Ifs Life Giving Has Beens Age Lasts Life Is Desire Left Wish Youth Blessing Surprise Enjoyment Midst More Time Life Is Short Fever Tedious Future Time

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.”

“If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.”

Ifs Fighting Left Plates

Author:Tom Stoppard

“If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.”

Ifs Stills Left Wigs

Book:Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Marx: Selected Writings

“And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.”

Ifs Left Casts Idols

Book:Murder After Hours, the Hollow

Source: Murder After Hours, the Hollow

“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Light Fall Left Speak Missing Objects Conversation Balls Dear Spheres Plates Rainbow Clay Bangs Pipe Glitter Drifting Juggling Drifting Off

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it's a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there's nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention.”

Ifs May Ideas Problem Running Young Left Attention Talent Demand Core New Ideas

Author:David Toop

“If you're morally clear you are not on the Left”

Ifs Left Clear

Author:Dennis Prager

“A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.”

Ifs Feels States Would Be Certain Left United Numbers United States Groups Movement Students Wings China Progressive Left Wing Progressive Movement

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.”

Ifs Men Should Wells Ends Lasts Left Alive Epitaph Tombstone

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.”

Ifs Government Left Revolution Succeed Patterns Repeats Systematic Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.”

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.”

Ifs Men Should Left My Own Principles He Man Wind Fool Republican Standing Abuse Bills Clinton My Time Devices Stations Bus Fairness Unfair Pointing Hideous Chili

Author:Molly Ivins

“I think Miss Moore was right to cut "The Steeple-Jack" - the poem seems plainer and clearer in its shortened state but she has cut too much... The reader may feel like saying, "Let her do as she pleases with the poem; it's hers, isn't it?" No; it's much too good a poem for that, it long ago became everybody's, and we can protest just as we could if Donatello cut off David's left leg.”

Ifs Thinking Feels May Long States Seems Left Too Much Cutting Missing Reader Please Legs Protest Long Ago Steeples Donatello

Author:Randall Jarrell

“What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?”

Ifs Humans Left Materials Tasks Goods Performers Waking Buttons Degrading Belittle Waking Life

Book:The myth of the machine

Source: The myth of the machine

“If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.”

Ifs States Fighting Left Loses United Opinion United States Consequence Wilderness Worth Fighting For

Author:Aldo Leopold

“Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy”

Ifs Knows Years Stills Left Easy Waiting Tears Rain Clouds Orange Choke Casualties

Author:Tori Amos

“If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.”

Ifs Character Lost Left Saving

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Now, what is the left's worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftist worldview, it's one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry.”

Ifs Matter Philosophy Left Attitude Darkness Sadness No Matter What Angry Pessimism Worldview Leftists

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“So I shamelessly say, no, I want him [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far- left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?”

People Ifs Want Left Failing Succeed Conservative Socialism Agendas Heartfelt Collectivism

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?”

Ifs Men Left Birth Ancestor Stains Offspring Ancestry

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.”

Ifs Wells Left Creativity Fire Understood Invention Contradiction Sparks Orthodoxy Graveyard

Book:Anthills of the Savannah

Source: Anthills of the Savannah

“I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?”

Ifs Want Giving Should Wells Play Character Left Comedy Wife Written Worst Fine Critics Foolish Wit Tone Our Time Merry Distinctive Dreary Coarse

Book:Dramatic Essays

Source: Dramatic Essays

“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.”

Ifs Writing Years Two Able Left Rooms Novel Library Corners Two Years Reporters Mixing Around The Corner Public Library You Left Me

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on multiple planets so an asteroid could come and you'd still have some humans left. It's a nice idea. It satisfies the multiple-eggs-in-multiple-baskets concept.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Stills Ideas Would Be Left Nice Planets Concepts Eggs Multiple Baskets Asteroids

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he did critique society, saying you're going to go under if you don't treat your poor right. I mean, that is part of prophetic calling, but it's not predicting anything.”

People Ifs Mean Suffering Left Forget Poor Kings Calling Treats Committed Connected Witness Prophet Never Forget Bores Luther Critique Prophetic Predicting

Author:Cornel West

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