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“They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Book Shows Speak Causes Grief One Thing Reader Clothes Illusion Dust Disguise Pointless Skeletons

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at the very end. I could tell that nobody read the whole review because they would just say, "It was great to see the review!" In a way, my brain shuts down at the end of an article. It doesn't really want to go to the end.”

Ifs Way Want Ends Whole Brain One Thing Reviews Articles Bad Reviews

Author:Jim Shaw

“The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.”

Ifs Done Shows Artist Situation One Thing Sick Killing Jealous Variation Signatures Killing Yourself Killing Myself

Author:Jim Shaw

“Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.”

Ifs Enough Might Certain One Thing Highest Expectations Firm Fortunate Globes Entitled Transport

Book:Discourse On Method, Meditations And Principles: Descartes : Discourse On Method

Source: Discourse On Method, Meditations And Principles: Descartes : Discourse On Method

“If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.”

Ifs Believe Done Might Life Is Belief Causes Can Do Impossible One Thing Havens Complexes Reviews Rethinking

Book:Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

“But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.”

Ifs World Feels Stills Matter Memories One Thing Acceptance Birth Empty Unconditional Love Denied Unconditional Being Loved Unqualified

Author:Michael Jackson

“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.”

“Oh yes, the Klitschkos. They got to learn how to fight. Period. But I'll tell you one thing - they're great human specimens. And I'd be happy to be able to work with them. If they chose to work with me. They had an opportunity when they got free of Peter Kohl - they didn't come to me. You know, I'm with who's with me. And I really don't care what fighter it is. I would be happy to promote them..Who could beat Vitali? Rahman could beat Vitali. His style is suited to beat Vitali.”

Ifs Knows Humans Would Be Care Able Fighting Opportunity One Thing Style Periods Beats Don't Care Fighter Peter

Author:Don King

“One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.”

“If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.”

Ifs One Thing

Author:Karen Russell

“If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.”

Ifs Should Littles Ideas Different Ends Common Records One Thing Heard Musician Transformed Recapitulation

Author:David Grubbs

“I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Stills Ideas Reason Powerful One Thing Despair Redemption Peculiar Antidote Parables

Author:Ben Lerner

“The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.”

Ifs Important Loses Creativity One Thing Important Things Loyal

Author:Pharrell Williams

“One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.”

Ifs Way Trying Matter Hard Form Night Certain Suffering Choices Process Dark One Thing Missing Seeking Critical Gods Will Treatment Ripe Dark Night Fruition

Author:Tim Farrington

“If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.”

Ifs Turns Ability One Thing Negative Excited

Author:Jim Rohn

“Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.”

Ifs Knows One Thing Hollywood Gears Money Talks

Author:Elle Schneider

“And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Written One Thing Tree Evolution Politician Someday Pool Genes Bad Ideas Primates

Author:John Sheridan

“If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.”

Ifs Persons Past Moving Forget One Thing Regret Mad Moving Forward Never Forget I Have Learned Pondering Forget The Past Lamentation

Author:Lorraine Heath

“If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.”

Ifs One Thing Limits

Author:Sasha Grey

“For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.”

People Ifs Needs Humans Stills Matter Perfect Plans One Thing Products Essentials Marketing Productions Factors Endeavor

Author:Bill Gates

“If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm!”

Ifs One Thing Safety Remains Storm Ships Captains Don't Trust

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If we're going to be friends let's get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops.”

Ifs Hate One Thing Right Now I Hate Breakfast At Tiffanys

Author:Holly Golightly

“If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic.”

Ifs World One Thing Changing The World Just One

Author:Maria Rodale

“The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.”

“If there's one thing that the Web has changed about modern communication, it's that we've at long last done away with the archaic idea that publishing is the private playground of people who have ideas, experiences, and opinions.”

People Ifs Long Ideas Done Lasts Opinion One Thing Modern Changed Communication Publishing Playgrounds Modern Communication

Author:Lore Sjoberg

“If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.”

Ifs Knows Made Said Ideas Remember One Thing Metaphor Height Association Feats

Author:Robert Frost

“If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.”

Ifs Two Teach One Thing Taught Type Occasions Bags

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.”

Ifs Hurt Levels One Thing Serious Critics Reviews Discerning Hurt So Much

Author:Sean Lennon

“If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.”

Ifs Years Looks Said Self Remember Spirit Forget One Thing Seeds Stuck If I Could Never Forget Mary Teenage Rebellious Nun Rebuke Teenage Years

Author:Patricia Mauceri

“The editing process, for me, is both the most fun and the most frustrating. It's the most fun because you get to see it actually piece together. But if one thing is off, it can be frustrating trying to figure out exactly what it is that's bumping you, so you try a hundred different things.”

Ifs Trying Different Together Fun Process Pieces One Thing Figures Hundred Different Things Editing Frustrating

Author:Scott Foley

“There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Hard Action Film Moving One Thing Movement Weight Muscles Action Movie

Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

“I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.”

Ifs Trying Mind I Can Hate Fighting Lost One Thing Glory Built I Hate Patterns Preserves Beast Inspection East Of Eden Travels With Charley

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“I learned about forty years ago that money and things wouldn't make people happy. And this has been confirmed many times. I have met many millionaires. They had one thing in common. None of them were happy....I realize that if you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”

People Ifs Years Has Beens Enough Realizing Common Too Much One Thing Mets Years Ago Forty Millionaire Making People Happy

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.”

Ifs Knows Trying Results Situation One Thing Sooner Or Later Hostage

Book:What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World

Source: What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World

“I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.”

Ifs Hard One Thing Hitting Wrong Direction

Author:David Ortiz

“If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.”

Ifs Feels Would Be Wish One Thing If I Could

Author:Bode Miller

“One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.”

Ifs Fighting Games One Thing Team Losing Frustration Hockey Frustrating

Author:Eric Gagne

“Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not given any doctrine, he has not given any catechism. He has simply explained one thing: that if you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and trees, you will blossom, you will have your wings open in the vast sky.”

Ifs Men World Given Natural One Thing Tree Sky Discipline Bird Ordinary Wings Doctrine Catechism

Author:Rajneesh

“If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.”

Ifs Doubt Wise One Thing Without Hope

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horrible for them. Then I've been fortunate enough to have great traveling experiences where everything lined up and even when things went wrong, you just laughed about it. You learn so much about yourself when you're traveling with someone.”

People Ifs Enough Together One Thing Horrible Fortunate About Yourself Laughed Traveled

Author:Candice Accola

“I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with the good people: people with the live hearts, the live eyes, the live heads.”

People Ifs Knows Heart Made Eye Causes Differences One Thing Huge Benefits Connected Not Sure March Good People Involvement Demonstration

Author:Pete Seeger

“We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy. Science will tell you that you can explode a person, but their energy still exists - even if they're decimated, the universe will preserve that in the form of heat or whatever it is. So there's a preservation of our molecules or whatever, but is there a preservation of a thing that's called the self if that thing is not actually ever one thing?”

Ifs Persons Stills Soul Self Form Universe Energy One Thing Notion Preserves Heat Preservation Molecules Morphing

Author:Mike Cahill

“Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.”

People Ifs Knows Want Humans Soul Compassion One Thing Heard Beats Genuine Appreciated Human Soul

Author:Sasha Azevedo

“If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.”

Ifs Mean One Thing Taught Satan Consistent

Author:Andrew Plotkin

“Many atheistic books and blogs seethe with anger. Remarkably, the authors do not limit their anger to Christians. They seem most livid with God. I don't believe in leprechauns, but I haven't dedicated my life to battling them. I suppose if I believed that people's faith in leprechauns poisoned civilization, I might get angry with members of leprechaun churches. But there's one thing I'm quite sure I wouldn't do: I would not get angry with leprechauns. Why not? Because I can't get angry with someone I know doesn't exist.”

Source: If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil

“There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.”

“...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.”

Ifs Knows Men Believe Looks Long I Can Fighting One Thing Ready Active No Point

Author:Socrates

“Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?”

Ifs Thinking Happens Wanted Sports One Thing Enjoyed Get Away Tigers Prey Spectators Catching

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.”

People Ifs Thinking Seems Actors One Thing Hollywood Great Work

Author:Ben Affleck

“Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.”

Ifs Certain One Thing Needed Come Up Foolish Tales Naked Fairy Internals Justify Fairy Tale Staff Ceo Projection Emperor Acquisition Stance Advisors

Author:Warren Buffett

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