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“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

Author:Richard Louv

“I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.”

People Ifs I Can Done Helping Hands Would Be Remember Forget Needed Engineers Ungrateful Jamaica Needed Help Ungrateful People

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.”

Ifs Way Would Be Needed Performances Casts Disappointed

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Difficult Steps Needed

Author:John Slattery

“If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.”

Ifs Would Be Kids Jobs Left Needed Husband Confused Your Husband Diapers So Confused

Author:Barbara Steele

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

Ifs I Can Sometimes Helping Voice Hurt Stage Needed Balance Singing Ears Loud Help Me

Author:Aaron Tveit

“The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.”

“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.”

“But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!”

Ifs Needs Party Morning Pieces Needed Tomorrow Conscious Horse Blow Shakes Sooner Or Later Shaking Tomorrow Morning

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.”

People Ifs Problem Seems Courses Left Differences Needed Work Out Bother Right Thing

Book:The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“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

“Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?”

Ifs Feels Trying Littles Hard Body Asks Pay Cutting Policy Needed Behavior Quitting Firm Boards Employee Unfair Unemployment Behalf Dissatisfied

Author:Janet Yellen

“In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.”

Ifs Wanted Film Internet Needed Filmmaker

Author:Jonas Mekas

“In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.”

Ifs World Has Beens Stills Ideas Age Order Differences Company Modern Genius Needed Rivers Invention Fallen Gray Bells Solitary Telephones Modern Age Graham Bell

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.”

Ifs Way Want Together Song Pieces Cutting Needed One Way Just One Puzzles Scissors Puzzle Piece

Author:Ryan Adams

“Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.”

Ifs Want Kind Wanted School Law Felt Practice Policy Needed Resumes Public Policy Law School Yale

Author:Robert Reich

“Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.”

Ifs Feels Real Fighting Universe Needed Faithfulness

Book:The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality

Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality

“Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.”

Ifs Long Advice Emotional Needed Anger Outburst Emotional Outbursts

Author:Peter McWilliams

“If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.”

Ifs Christ Moral Christianity Divine Development Needed Schemes Incarnation Superfluous

Book:Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”

“With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.”

Ifs Knows Ends Hands Faces Poverty Know How Needed Projects Towns Unions Workers Killing France Spite Face To Face Workshops Degrading Taverns

Author:Flora Tristan

“If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.”

Ifs Economy Needed Stores Collapse

Book:Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

Source: Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

“I think if I lived in New York I would be really stressed out going out to a club and seeing a good DJ who's doing something on a similar level. I'm pretty critical of myself when it comes to the music. Maybe they're not doing as many samples or the samples aren't put together as specifically but it would stress me out to feel like I needed to be one upping someone. In Pittsburgh, I'm in my own world - I know I'm the guy doing this here.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Feels Would Be Together Guy My Own Levels Seeing New York Needed Stress Clubs Critical Going Out Stressed Djs Sample Pittsburgh Stressed Out My Own World

Author:Girl Talk

“We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness, families and other populations like foster youth, who each have distinct needs.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Ends Youth Needed Population Veteran Homelessness Discrete

Author:John Carlos Frey

“Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.”

Ifs Should May States Political Suffering Needed Members Agree Majority Ships Sentiments Pilots Assistance Peril Wrecks Voyages Legislature

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.”

Ifs War Bigs America Fighting Lost Strong Forget Needed England Critical Russia Combination Damn Demon Willpower Strong Will Goering

Author:Hermann Goring

“If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.”

Ifs Needed Garden Roots Criticism Plant Developing Weed Shallow

Author:Allison Mackie

“What is needed is competence first and enthusiasm first. There is nothing second! Although each or one of these alone is a good start, one without the other is impotent. But if I had a choice I would have enthusiasm first.”

Ifs Firsts Choices Needed Enthusiasm Competence

Author:Julius Sumner Miller

“Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.”

Ifs Life Enough Wise Needed Constant Brave Glad Naked Instant Perpetual Veils Thrust Docile

Book:Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

“What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.”

Ifs Way Suffering Wish Perfect Needed Moon Equal Disease Errors Bread Intensity Desirable Not Being Perfect

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.”

Ifs Ideas Self Painting Needed Ego Sake Self Realization Realization Stem

Author:Joseph Beuys

“My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”

Ifs Knows Looks Ends My Own Car Needed Strategy

Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.”

Ifs Years Art Would Be Deals Needed Accounts Twenties Works Of Art Historian Forbidden Tracing

Book:Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

“When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.”

Ifs Knows Men Wells Heart Doe Lying Ability Needed Taste Ill Contrary Sensibility Modest Can Not Right Place Good Taste Predetermined

Author:Vaclav Havel

“What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?”

Ifs Use School Needed High School Recalls School Education

Book:Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories

Source: Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories

“I often ask people if they would like to give their organs when they pass on, and they say "Well, I'm not so sure, I don't know." And I said, "Well, would you accept one if you needed one?" "Well, yeah, sure." And I say "Well, there you go - where do you get them from?".”

People Ifs Knows Giving Wells Said Asks Accepting Needed Yeah Organs

Author:Larry Hagman

“If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.”

“You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.”

Ifs Knows Mind Needed

Book:Glasshouse

Source: Glasshouse

“If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.”

Ifs Children Education Creativity Creative Needed Involved Tools Intelligent Our Children Educational Mastery Literacy

Author:Danny Glover

“If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!”

“One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.”

Ifs Kind Long Book Term Needed Pages Prepared Response Library Long Term Rejects Devices Be Prepared Printed Storage Proliferation Schemas

Author:J. C. R. Licklider

“Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.”

Source: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

“After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.”

Ifs Long Wanted Acting Needed Long Time Scripts Take Time Again And Again

Author:Julia Sawalha

“To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'”

Ifs Needs Might Names Enjoy Voice Pleasure Lord Humour Arms Needed Guilt Drinking Partners Pursuit Cinema Companion Roof Plunge Crisps Drunkards Wanton Auditoriums

Author:Quentin Crisp

“If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.”

Ifs Attention Practice Needed Capacity Train Internals

Author:Daniel Goleman

“In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.”

Ifs Has Beens Matter Might Simple History Military Needed Ambition Russia France Combination Britain Alliances Old Days Territorial Czechoslovakia

Author:Niall Ferguson

“The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.”

Ifs Humans Kind Shows Can Do Religious Human Beings Groups Atheism Needed Lessons Prejudice Campaigns Propaganda Opposition Show Me Disgusted

Book:The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.”

Ifs Would Be Goal Needed Research Cancer Cures Fusion Cancer Cure

Author:Stephen Hawking

“You want a woman who, if needed, will be the CEO of the home. In essence, you want a woman who understands the difference between ambition and busyness. You also want a woman who understands that submission is strength, not weakness. Meaning, she understands the importance of your leadership but she is also strong enough not to allow you to run over her.”

Ifs Want Enough Home Running Strong Differences Needed Ambition Weakness Essence Importance Ceo Submission Strong Enough

Author:Tony Gaskins

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