Best stills & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed.”

People Ifs Stills Might Kids Mother Father Differences Wonder Havens Changed Dad Intense Phases Bonding

Author:Jen Kirkman

“The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.”

Ifs Mind Stills Loses Perfect Clear Meditation Buddhism Reflection Eternity Clarity Lakes Ripple

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.”

Ifs Stills Spirit Order Speak Meditation Buddhism Guides Our Thoughts Speak Softly

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.”

Ifs Heart Stills Twenties Thirty Idealist

Author:Randolph Bourne

“Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon.”

Ifs Way Stills Christian Spiritual Perfect Mystery Divine Perfection Flesh Features Maturity Prophet Visible Orthodox Incarnation Orthodox Christian Beginners Advent Logos

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“I still sing. I don't know if I'm going to sing on 'Glee' or 'New Normal.”

Ifs Knows Stills Normal Glee New Normal

Author:NeNe Leakes

“Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.”

Ifs Knows Stills Done Play Happens Remember Process Know How One Day Convinced Confused

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows May Stills Country Energy Strong Movement Source Areas Wings Average Oil Alternatives Texas Hippie Right Wing Drills Texan Alternative Energy

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.”

People Ifs Stills Fronts Scene Twenties Workshops

Author:Ray Walston

“We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.”

People Ifs World Stills Numbers Starting Around The World Compare Telephones Skype

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.”

Ifs Stills Care Don't Care Campaigns I Don't Care Oscars

Author:Steve Zahn

“So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their love when it is still pristine? I think each is lonely in a different place, though if you lose your love while it is still perfect you at least have a clear explanation for your grief, while if it gradually crumbles in your hands you do not.”

Ifs Thinking Long Stills Different Enough Hands Loses Perfect Grief Clear Share Lonely Explanation Fades Better Off Different Place Pristine

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills Running Fall Company Know How Standing Boards Shore Software Again And Again Surf Adviser Software Company

Author:Joel Spolsky

“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.”

Ifs Years Made Stills Shows Grows Growing Up Taken Streets Car Terrible Spending Parks Jerry Spotlight Squad

Author:Steve Wilkos

“I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.”

Ifs Stills Desire Careers Paid Something You Love

Author:Mathew Baynton

“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.”

Ifs Wells Stills I Can Turns Interesting Quality Down And Photographer Photograph Obvious Instance Abstract Organized Upside Down

Author:William Eggleston

“A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.”

Ifs Looks Littles Made Stills Use Today Wanted Names Lost Bits Difficult Cases Fantasy Too Much Little Bit England Spells Variation Medieval Flavour Medieval Times

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.”

Ifs Humans Stills Ends Eye Lying Hate Prayer Brother Judgment Mad Scream Brothers And Sisters Closing Closing My Eyes

Author:Kenji Goto

“I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.”

Ifs Stills Shows Break Clothes Shoes Nervous Slips Butterfly Heels Gorgeous High Heels Runway I Get Butterflies

Author:Karlie Kloss

“If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.”

Ifs Should Stills Happens Lying Wake Up Armageddon

Author:William Edgar

“And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Kind Mean Said Stills Dies Felt Happened Blood One Day Mouths Things Happen Sat Serenity

Author:Desmond Tutu

“When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.”

People Ifs Stills Happens Past Used Things Happen Mandates Positive Things Campaigning Rupture

Author:Michel Martelly

“That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.”

Ifs Thinking Should Believe Kind Art Stills Play Lying Secret Missing Skills Performances Mark Notes Conviction Performing

Book:Seraphina

Source: Seraphina

“Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.”

Ifs Wells Mean Stills Acting Paid Troupe

Author:Morgan Freeman

“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Made Said Stills Running Wanted Mother Night Hurt Broken Fine Injury Toes Lap I Was Hurt

Author:Ronda Rousey

“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.”

Ifs Want Stills Running Three Hours Four Minutes Ought Nine Want Something Visitors

Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.”

Ifs Stills Moving Dies Grows Challenges Creatures Standing Disturbance Standing Still

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?”

Ifs Should Stills Important Growth Term Focus Missing Asking Decades Important Questions

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.”

People Ifs Giving Stills Simple Risk Huge Dollars Bonus

Author:William D. Cohan

“Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.”

People Ifs Mind Stills Happens Would Be White Walks Scared Stores Make Sense Department Department Stores

Author:Jordan Peele

“If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.”

Ifs Trying Stills Hard Champion Jail

Author:Amnat Ruenroeng

“One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Art Stills Culture Forget Successful Fronts Fields Art Is Standing Contemporary Sane Engaging

Author:Tino Sehgal

“If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.”

Ifs Stills Next Deals Brother Hollywood Venice Really Happy Malibu Warner Brothers

Author:Susan Downey

“If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Five Paid Dollars Columns

Author:Dick Schaap

“My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Important Mother Taught Agree Important Things Conviction Taught Us

Author:Jane Goodall

“My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.”

Ifs Way Mind Stills Running Angry Fabric Wrong Way Spelling

Author:William Ivey Long

“If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.”

Ifs Long Stills Moving Periods Sitting Boring Monotony Long Periods Of Time Sitting Still Constantly Moving

Author:Amy Seimetz

“If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?”

Ifs Should Stills Shows Rooms Dresses Casts Kitchen Restaurants Broadway Rehearsal Dining Dining Rooms Broadway Shows Preview

Author:Marian Burros

“In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.”

Ifs Years Looks Doe Stills War Speak Steps Issues Generations Happenings Despite Remarkable Massive Genocide Plates Inability Step Up Analyzing Darfur

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.”

Ifs Stills Play Used Opportunity Five Six Seasons

Author:Steve Finley

“If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?”

“The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Records Products Industry Increase Mad Radio Making Money Pissed Off

Author:Jonathan Potter

“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stills I Can Feelings Pain Mother Can Do Sleep Forget Levels Brain Empowerment Function Incredibles Scary Vocabulary Being A Mother Grumpy

Author:Anna Friel

“They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.”

Ifs Wells Stills Helping Truth Law Science Destiny Knowing Gravity Our Destiny Astrology Your Destiny Can't Change

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?”

“A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!”

Ifs Persons Stills Wealth Gratitude Unhappy

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Listing What You Have: Internalize the attitude that regardless of how many things you do not have, you can still be happy and grateful if you keep your focus on what you do have. Make a list of possessions, talents, and good qualities you have and whenever you catch yourself becoming obsessed with something you lack, review your list.”

Ifs Stills Attitude Quality Focus Talent Becoming Gratitude Grateful Possession Lists Obsessed Reviews Good Quality Happy And Grateful

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“If you are obsessively active, please at least pause to ask yourself why and to listen for the answer from the still, quiet voice alive and well within you. I don't have an answer for the hurry sickness afflicting our society and our souls. But I do trust that the how-to-stop-it is within you, and you can change your pace if you want to.”

Ifs Want Wells Stills Soul Asks Voice Answers Alive Please Quiet Active Sickness Our Society Pace Within You Pauses Quiet Voice

Author:Sue Thoele

“If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.”

Ifs Stills Wisdom Fall Heaven Remains Valuable Dust Islamic Mud Gems Valueless

Author:Saadi

“Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC network well before Election Day. And although the elections are still eight months away, all indications are that the money has been well spent. Our message is getting out to the Hispanic, Asian and African American communities. If we can continue to implement this plan, we will be able to save the country from further policy damages at the hand of President Obama and the Democrats.”

Stills Quotes

Related topics

Stills Quotes