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“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

“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

“The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and fair to every county and fair to every child, and would put the education dollar where that dollar is needed most, now.”

Children States Would Be Deals Education Study Needed Fairs Dollars Work Out Experts Formulas County

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate? How was I to know that the ‘dream job’ I was rejected from out of college would lead me to a year of entrepreneurship and adventure in Spain? How was I to know that taking a miserable job back in the states would be just the push I needed to vow to never do something I wasn’t passionate about again? Everything works out. I mean everything. As long as you believe it will. When you do, you will find the silver lining. That will take you to the next level.”

“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

“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"”

Ideas Would Be Asks Opportunity Born Half Company Baby Fool Needed Promise Foolish Make Sense Fulfillment Damn Executives Innovative Immature

Author:Peter Drucker

“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”

People Knows Feels Should Mind Stories Feelings Happens Would Be Able Sides Emotion Needed Capable Sitting Concerned Tables Oneself Intellect Noble Affected Colossal

Author:John Ruskin

“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

“Do we know what practices would be effective in resisting aliens? Wouldn't the public have to be convinced, in all countries, that there is such a threat? When have the major nations on this planet shown they can agree on any military course of action? Earthlings are already spending a trillion dollars a year on things military. Where would the money come from? Krugman seems to be suggesting more lies are what is needed. How about everybody cutting their military budgets in half and feeding people instead?”

“What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.”

Giving Would Be Needed Expectations Spades

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“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.”

“When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.”

Would Be Needed Circumstances Lows Expectations Overcoming Obstacles Climbs Over It Bias Low Expectations

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

“[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.”

Would Be Needed Adopted Cheaper Housework Plumber

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.”

Has Beens Would Be Accepting Cases Honesty Needed Injustice Favors Favour Pardon Unwilling

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.”

“All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.”

“What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.”

Ifs Would Be Courses Needed Late Too Late Genes

Author:Jonas Salk

“I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.”

Book Whole Would Be Running Wanted Reading Fun Interesting Events Needed Exciting Boring I Realized Tricks Having Fun Passages Jumping Book Reading

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”

Love Enough Would Be Needed Red Anger Hot Caught Painful Jealousy Suspicion Quarrels Red Hot

Author:Saint Augustine

“For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.”

People Wells Country Reason Would Be Action Social Simple Environment Needed Messages Tests Bases Decent Slogans Ghetto Affluence Social Action Decent Life

Author:Barry Commoner

“With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance in which an abortion would be needed to save a woman's life. There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.”

Would Be Mother Religion Technology Modern Needed Instance Abortion Exception Modern Technology

Author:Joe Walsh

“Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?”

Firsts Humans Moments Reality Would Be Science Answers Generations Mystery Needed Ancestor Odds Deluded

Book:God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“Adoption was something that was always under my skin, that I knew would be a part of my life, and, when I decided to start filing, it was very clear. It was like I knew that this was exactly what it needed to be. So then you go through the process, and it's tough. It's not the easiest process - and then again, I've never liked things too easy in life. But it emotionally knocks you out.”

Would Be Easy Process Clear Needed Tough Decided Skins Adoption Filing

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.”

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Author:William McIlvanney

“If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Able Needed Weapons Neighbor

Author:Mother Teresa

“I do believe that the very tense relationship between the United States and Iran presents a challenge to the United States. But to discuss Iran as that type of a threat I find somewhat unconvincing, mindful of the fact that Iran actually doesn't have those military capabilities that would be needed to refer to it as that type of threat.”

Believe States Facts Would Be Challenges United United States Military Type Needed Threat Iran Capability Tense

Author:Trita Parsi

“We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.”

“Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.”

Knows Mean Would Be Individual Cities Needed Stones Backgrounds Like Me Ties Rolling Rolling Stones

Book:O Pioneers

Source: O Pioneers

“My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.”

Made Would Be Care Jobs Felt Effort Saws Team Duty Mom Needed Dad Promise My Family Independent My Mom Someday Pulling Team Effort

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.”

Looks Play Character Would Be Film Stuff Difficult Interest Interesting Boys Audience Teacher Needed Guilt Instance Former Dramatic Tension Main Characters

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".”

“I dreamed there would be a time to come together to "build out the Hope Reformation that would bring certain shifts to the leaders in the Body of Christ." In this dream, I saw the buildings of revival and prayer and there was some divine activity that was good and needed and foundational for what God was doing on the earth.”

Dream Body Would Be Earth Together Certain Christ Prayer Leader Saws Building Divine Needed Activity Revival Reformation Body Of Christ

Author:Bob Hartley

“Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And the reason why I argued we needed to get involved is because he was going to go one way or the other. And my argument then was proven true, and that is, the longer that civil war took, the more militias would be formed and the more unstable the country would be after the fact.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book - that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I'm glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.”

“The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.”

People Ifs Would Be Needed Lovely Shelter Spit

Author:Lykke Li

“I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.”

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Author:Michael Gove

“Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.”

Knows Would Be Animal Industry Needed Aspect Horse Raised Treated Plus Chemicals Regulation Consumption Cripples Unsafe

Author:Willie Nelson

“To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell just what was needed, and not do any more or any less, and maybe not even be aware of what you had done, except it would be a helpful thing because of how fully present you were. Well, as Aerosmith once famously said: Dream on.”

Wells Said Done Dream Would Be Kindness Awareness Needed Essence Helpful Refined Aerosmith

Author:George Saunders

“I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.”

People Ifs Helping Would Be Mother Steps Four Childhood Needed Degrees Thirds Seven Loyalty Sibling Vary Closeness

Author:Ann Patchett

“A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.”

Would Be Difficult Needed Army Reaching Initiative Nevertheless Joints Proposal

Author:Martin Schulz

“There have been many times in my life where I got opportunities that I never thought would be the things that I needed, so I'm always saying, "I want to do this but whatever the universe thinks is right, I'm open." Because otherwise it causes me so much pain if I don't get what I want. It's my least favorite thing.”

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Author:Jen Kirkman

“When my husband gives me this ultimatum, "You either stop singing, or you move out," then it became very clear that what I needed to do - not just because I wanted to sing, but because I didn't want to live with anybody who issued ultimatums to me like that - would be to move out.”

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Author:Rene Marie

“Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him because, you know, the Republican Party over the last two decades has needed to include his support among women, among Latinos, among blacks, among young people, and among highly educated people.”

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Author:Mark Colvin

“For me, I was the most vulnerable and needed the most in my postpartum experience and got the least. It was just kind of a drop-off. That would be my focus - on the woman, afterwards.”

Kind Would Be Focus Needed Vulnerable Postpartum

Author:June Diane Raphael

“Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.”

Years Wells Would Be Answers Nice Honest Havens Couple Needed Get Back Being Nice Back To Work

Author:Gary Oldman

“It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.”

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Book:Tenth of December

Source: Tenth of December

“Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.”

Years Humans Body Would Be Human Beings Perfect Millions Needed Plant Complexes Beneficial Compounds Adapted

Author:Andrew Weil

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