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“If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.”

Ifs Body Sports Water Simple Drink Essentials Tired Athlete Your Body Soda

Author:Troy Polamalu

“People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.”

People Ifs Water Rising Necks Thought Provoking Ankles Rising Up

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“If theres a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.”

Ifs World Doe Choices Water Consumers Geography Bottled Water Tap Water

Author:Muhtar Kent

“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”

Ifs Way Home Would Be Fall Water Wonder Amount Travel Unnecessary Cliffs Wrong Way Niagara Niagara Falls

Author:Oscar Wilde

“If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.”

Ifs Men Way Problem Hands Lying Found Water Deals Air Late Environmental Determined Too Late Pollution Biodiversity Air Pollution Environmental Problems

Author:Margaret Mead

“"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."”

People Ifs Said Past Dies Turns Three Next Water Born Hours Half Tides Flood Going Out Coast Spooky

Author:Charles Dickens

“Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.”

Ifs Funny Passion Water Cutting Missing Youth Humorous Constitution Drinking Superstitions Sixty Baths Lavinia

Book:Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics

Source: Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics

“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.”

“For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit

“We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Humans Would Be Water Born Chance Opinion Dying Human Nature Shadow Weak Essence Thoughtful Uncertain Vague Participation Clutch Midway

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“It's a real misconception that water is a problem in Africa only. It's also an issue in Nepal, in Honduras, and in the United States of America. If we don't start paying attention now and curb our use and stop taking it for granted, we're going to be in a bad place, like everyone else.”

Ifs Real States Use Problem America Water United Attention United States Issues Granted Pay Attention United States Of America Misconception Curb Nepal Honduras

Author:Kenna

“If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.”

Ifs Dream Bigs Able Jobs Dies Water Rooms Losing Sitting Unhappy Crap Consumed Holding On Your Room Burnt Out

Author:Robert Greene

“If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.”

Ifs Love Firsts Water Conquer Flames Drop Of Water Sprinkles

Author:Ovid

“If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.”

Ifs Water Poor Rich Wine Sticks Luxury Indulgence Abstinence

Book:Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

Source: Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

“Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress’ negotiations often come slow or not at all.”

Ifs Waiting Water Cutting Imagine Republican Agree Clean Democrat Congress Receiving Coast Negotiation Loan Hurricanes Residents Aftermath Katrina Clean Water Hurricane Katrina

Author:Cedric Richmond

“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.”

“The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.”

Ifs Wells Bits Growth Water Economic Bridges Revenue Economic Growth Stimulus Troubled Waters

Author:William J. Clinton

“I don't mean to harp on this, but it's like the networks are a how-to manual for terrorists. You see them on the news. This reporter is standing outside a water treatment plant, going, 'If they poured the poison here it could wipe out thousands because the guard is off duty from noon until 1 every day!'”

Ifs Mean Water Duty News Standing Plant Terrorist Poison Treatment Reporters Standing Out Wipe Noon Manuals Harps

Author:Jay Leno

“If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.”

Ifs Wells Made Spirit Water Hours Vision Wise Reader Blessing Breaths Generous Self Made Martini Indomitable Water Of Life

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”

Ifs Hands Beautiful Stars Water Imagination Sea Lovely Senses If I Could North Star

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.”

Ifs Firsts Made Sound Water Dark Objects Disease Army Towns Victim Faults Dues Trials Satisfied Chiefs Posts Firm Ancestor Site Cattle Liver Abnormal

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.”

Ifs World Should May Christian Water Filled Bottom Ships Worldliness

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.”

Ifs Form Water Landscape Afterlife Consistently Homesick

Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.”

Ifs Feels Looks Littles Long Hard Done Jobs Easy Water Can Do Work Loss Results Effort Excellence Yield Spells Ducks Strain You Can Do It Vitality Fatigue Work Done Output

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.”

Ifs Needs Children Would Be Three Water Growing Amount Fairs Treats Profit Sunlight Sibling Identical Cactus Pruning

Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“Faith is trusting Jesus to lead us and going where He leads. What avails it to me to analyze Saratoga water, and to believe in its virtues? I must drink the water if I want its purifying power. And the soul that has not actually drunk of Christ can never be purged from sin.”

Ifs Want Believe Soul Jesus Christ Water Sin Virtue Drink Drunk Purifying

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Wells Two Country Enough Might Water Millions Willing Giving Up Scientist Down And Clean Lists Mess Thee Canada Lakes Devoted Pledge Fresh Water

Author:Rick Mercer

“It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.”

Ifs Matter Water Natural Nice Sky Movement Quiet Sitting Silent Edges Fishes Boat Fishing Natural Things Quiet Time

Book:Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer

Source: Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer

“Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.”

“If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.”

Ifs Heart Stills Water Clear Sky Taste Pure Ocean Cups Lakes Salt Salty Fresh Water

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.”

Ifs Water Benefits Anger Rough Transformed Mills

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The simple fact is that there is a limited amount of water on the planet, and we cannot afford to be negligent in its use. We cannot keep treating it as if it will never run out.”

Ifs Facts Use Running Water Simple Planets Amount Environmental

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Believe Stills Problem I Believe Water Answers Clear Mass Crisis Impact Environmental Bottom Meaningful Lakes Pouring Most Meaningful Environmental Crisis Lake Erie

Author:Barry Commoner

“The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?”

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.”

Ifs World Needs Wells May Has Beens Happens Suffering Water Cities Environment Plans Wind Environmental Landscape Hostile Emergencies Stewardship Neglected Careless Starks Bruises

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.”

“Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.”

“There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."”

Ifs Want Two Soul Stories Light Water Darkness Hell Industry Drinking Alternatives Landscape Coal Medieval Implications Public Health Drinking Water Shattering

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?”

“There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from the earth; there is no means of carrying the large amount oxygen, water, and food that would be necessary for such a long journey; and there is not known way of easing our ether ship down on the surface of another world, if we could get there.”

Ifs World Way Mean Long Would Be Earth Water Space Known Journey Theory Amount Surface Guides Ships Aviation Predictions Oxygen Departure Another World Long Journey

Author:Forest Ray Moulton

“I go to practice each and every day, but my intensity is not the same. If I get tired, I'll go sit down. If I want some water, I'll go drink it. When I'm in training camp, I don't. I've got to push through being tired. I've got to push through being uncomfortable. That's really it. It's largely a mentality. You kind of flip that switch and turn your intensity up. Your heart rate goes up. Your reps go up. And you start to get in the frame of mind.”

Ifs Want Mind Heart Kind Turns Water Practice Drink Training Tired Rate Uncomfortable Camps Intensity Mentality Flip Frame Of Mind Heart Rate Training Camp

Author:Chael Sonnen

“I've always been freaked out in deep open water if there's a potential of sharks around.”

Ifs Water Sharks

Author:Theo James

“When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.”

Ifs Children Water Jokes Buying

Author:Assata Shakur

“If you take a glass of water and separate it from its source - the ocean - then pour the water away from its source and ask it to sustain life, it flitters away. It just evaporates. It can't sustain life. That's a metaphor for us when we separate ourselves from our source and believe that God is separate from us.”

Ifs Believe Asks Water Source Ocean Metaphor Glasses

Author:Wayne Dyer

“God is like the ocean and we're like that glass of water. We try to sustain life and do all that the source tells us that we are capable of doing, but if we do it alone, we wither away and collapse instead.”

Ifs Trying Water Source Ocean Capable Glasses Collapse

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!”

Ifs Way Want Needs Trying Doe Matter Might Able Science Turns Water Simple Principles Heavy Experiments Bars Glances Compass Floats Absolutely Nothing Sinking Buckets Magnet Hardy Mariners Cork

Author:Dave Barry

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