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“Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.”

Ifs Thinking May Two Path Minutes Steep

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“If, by some miracle, you're lucky enough to meet the One, whatever you do, don't let them go. Because you don't get another shot at it. Soulmates aren't like buses; there's not going to be another one along in a minute. That's why they're called 'The One'.”

Ifs Enough Minutes Lucky Shots Miracle Bus Soulmate

Book:You're the One that I don't want

Source: You're the One that I don't want

“Apple is apparently building a large solar energy farm in North Carolina. And if there's any justice, the minute they're done building it, God will introduce a newer, smaller sun that's not compatible with their machinery.”

Ifs Done Funny Energy Justice Sun Minutes Building Gods Will Apples Farms Introducing Machinery Carolina Compatible North Carolina Solar Energy

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.”

Ifs Giving May Matter Care Accepting Economic Minutes Return Program Economics Accounts Claims Meetings Series Doctrine Italian Fascism Assembly Crumbling Guilds Pointers

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Ideas Five Minutes Students Good Ideas Five Minutes

Author:Judith Weir

“The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.”

Source: Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir

“If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it.”

Ifs Giving America Five Minutes Shelves Five Minutes Bucks North America Sony

Author:Jack Tretton

“I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.”

Ifs Men Way I Can Hate Bits Work Pleasure Too Much Minutes Pride Arms Goes On Shots Tools I Hate Delight Strikes Clock Strokes Grindstone

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.”

Ifs World Heart Two Brain Consciousness Minutes Conscious Massive Zero Fragile

Author:Robin Gibb

“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.”

Ifs Men Felt Attitude Study Minutes He Man Bounds Afghanistan Aesthetic Devoted Fifteen Advertisements Cultivation

Author:Burton Rascoe

“I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.”

Ifs Soul Government America Minutes Conscience Code Corporations If I Could Immoral Shrinks

Author:Jerry Brown

“For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.”

Source: The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You

“I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.”

Ifs Should Mean I Can Two Desire Teach Minutes Expression Cooking Dinner Cooks Kitchen How To Love

Author:Mario Batali

“I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters. In between two of the segments she asked me: "But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?" I said, "Type faster." This was widely quoted, but the "six months" was changed to "six minutes," which bothered me. It's "six months."”

Ifs Said Two Minutes Changed Type Months Six Doctors Faster Six Months Bothered Barbara

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Courses Difficult Minutes Tests Twenties Enjoyed Endurance Survived Mud One Minute Huts Leeds

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.”

Ifs Mind Stills Bigs Form Meditation Crazy Minutes Listening Twenties Stillness Monkeys Vastness Soulful Monkey Mind

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?”

Ifs Thinking Men Doe Earth Sex Minutes Eight Every Man Nine

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.”

Ifs Needs Hard Done Use Easy Minutes Benefits Weight Spending Plenty Extras Twelve Chasing Calories Seventeen Treadmills Take It Easy Extra Time Cardiovascular

Author:Jack LaLanne

“Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.”

Ifs Littles Sound Deals Company Too Much Impossible Minutes Majors Edges Radio Noise Awful Little Things Frightening Traffic

Author:Elaine Paige

“Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.”

Ifs Minutes Glasses Commit Chardonnay

Author:Kate Winslet

“If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!”

Ifs Two Minutes

Author:Paul Weller

“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.”

Ifs Stills Past Waiting Hours Prayer Loss Minutes Illusion Inheritance Compounds Calendars Unfinished Rosary

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.”

Ifs Men Mind Made Play Running Lasts Found Half Nice Player Minutes Football Huge Terrible Beats Negative Tonight Concerts Fifteen Liverpool Streaks Barcelona Nice Man

Author:Eamon

“They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.”

Ifs Long Real Lasts Spirit Fighting Five Fate Plans Minutes Military Battle Five Minutes

Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes to sleep, and I love his company. But I've trained myself to be able to work anywhere, and I write on trains, planes, in automobiles (if I'm not the driver), airports, hotel rooms. I travel often. If I couldn't write wherever I was I would get little done. I also can write in short bursts. Fifteen minutes are enough to move a story forward.”

“Capitalism, in contrast, has existed for fewer than 300 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens was a 24-hour day, then capitalism has existed for two minutes.”

Ifs Years Two Hours Minutes Capitalism Fewer Contrast Homo Sapiens

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.”

“Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.”

Ifs Dream Morning Five Minutes Deserve Intention Your Dreams Centre Five Minutes

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.”

Ifs Ends Hard Done Shows Three Hours Comedy Minutes Six Seven Interviews The End Of The Day Tonight Concerts

Author:Howie Mandel

“It’s like, if you can’t focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don’t go to the movies! You’ve got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!”

Ifs Should Home Light Sound Issues Focus Crazy Minutes Phones Screens Tapping Oh My Gosh

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."”

Ifs Knows Trying Looks Littles Doe I Can Would Be Loses Sleep Morning Minutes Fit Clothes Weight Extras More Time Fifteen Closets Skinny

Author:Mindy Kaling

“You know that old joke about the guy who lives to be 104? The punch line goes something like 'If I knew I was gonna get this old, I'd have taken much better care of myself.' Well, guess what? We actually are living longer, and the time to start taking care of ourselves is right this minute.”

Ifs Knows Wells Care Guy Lines Taken Minutes Jokes Old Jokes

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.”

Ifs Should Play Would Be Minutes Theatre

Author:Eve Myles

“I dont know if youre familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and youre soaking wet within 10 minutes.”

Ifs Knows Steps Minutes Familiar Hotel Wet Soaking Malaysia

Author:Craig Fairbrass

“I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.”

People Ifs Looks I Can Country Home Bigs Perfect Five Minutes Car Window London Bus Towers Five Minutes Palaces Buckingham Palace

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.”

Ifs Writing Stills Minutes Letters Making Time

Author:Lois Wyse

“If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.”

Ifs Needs Should Humans Soul Opinion Minutes Errors Philosopher Pleasant Immortal Mistaken Human Soul

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.”

People Ifs Faces Names Hours Hurt Minutes Worst Car Perception Jokes Driving Cracks Gestures Signals Horns Bumps Freeways Rush Hour

Author:Jennifer James

“No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?”

Ifs Needs Should Next Space Minutes Ten Empty Leaving Breathe Spares Jam

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.”

Ifs Feels Reason Feelings Passion Interest Perfect Minutes Subjects Ten Clothes Concern Roots Dresses Complexes Indifferent Topics Straightforward Guarded Touchy Overbearing Deep Roots

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.”

Ifs Lines Pleasure Minutes Twenties Packages

Book:Penny Candy

Source: Penny Candy

“If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.”

Ifs Looks Enough Nations Hours Imagination Four Minutes Needed Terror France Look Up Poetic Frightened One Hour

Author:Madame de Stael

“I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.”

Ifs Want Trying Said Done Kids Used Courses Crazy Minutes Notion Photographer Driven

Author:Diane Arbus

“I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Looks Able Night Guy Sex Five Minutes Figures Conversation Waste Faster Wasting Time Five Minutes All Night

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“If I tell a joke on stage and the crowd laughs for a minute, I stand there for a minute and enjoy them laughing before I go on to the next joke. On TV, if I stand there for a minute while they laugh, I look like an idiot who can't remember the next joke.”

Ifs Looks Remember Next Enjoy Laughing Minutes Stage Tvs Goes On Jokes Crowds Idiot

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.”

Ifs Littles Seems Happens Audience Five Minutes Patient Studios Freak Confusing Five Minutes

Author:Rob Zombie

“If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.”

People Ifs Way Looks Different Term Forget Talking Issues Minutes Internet Built Best Way Livelihood Most Amazing Broadcasting

Author:Thom Yorke

“If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.”

People Ifs Stills Minutes Fame Finished Buying Fifteen Tickets Youtube Dvds

Author:Jeff Dunham

“Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.”

People Ifs Needs Age Enjoy Minutes Solitude Weakness Prejudice Faults Endure Unreal Aloof Gregarious Sociability

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.”

Ifs Knows Littles Moments Seems Kids Next Stuff Animal Minutes Flower Caring Rage Adolescence Little Kid Hormones Stew

Book:Sugar Rush

Source: Sugar Rush

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