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“I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"”

Ifs Looks Long Humor Funny Actors Fun Water Saws Feet Amount Balls Having Fun Seconds Pool Maximum Jimmy Goggles

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine.”

Ifs Want Children Made Whole Shows Care Purpose Water Comedy Cold Don't Care Likes I Don't Care Swimming Maine Cold Water Comedy Shows

Author:John Hodgman

“If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.”

Ifs War Reading Water Week Middle Paper Boxes Reserves Toilets Battlefields Parachutes Toilet Paper Toothbrushes Reading The Bible

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.”

Ifs World Way Want Mind Persons Matter Able Fall Felt Easy Sports Goal Water My Own Comfortable Falling In Love Focused My Way My Own World Goal Oriented

Author:Michael Phelps

“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.”

Ifs Knows Writing May Enough Water Movement Dignity Dues Comeback Iceberg

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have.”

People Ifs Whole Moments Water Ocean Eternity That Moment Live In The Moment Flavor Only Time Moments In Time Drop Of Water

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Daddy pays for the water, daddy pays for the gas, daddy pays for the electricity, and if daddy didn't pay for the electricity, he'd pay for the candle on your nightstand, so you can study for the big test tomorrow.”

Ifs Humor Bigs Funny Water Pay Study Tomorrow Tests Gas Candle Electricity Daddy

Author:Chris Rock

“If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.”

Ifs Should Ends Humor Funny Water Week Drink Garden Scientist Ass Bottles

Author:Lewis Black

“If I'm having a chardonnay in the show, it'll be green tea with water.”

Ifs Shows Water Green Tea Green Tea Chardonnay

Author:Kether Donohue

“Truthfully, I just try to get as much rest and drink water like a fish every day. If I don't get enough rest, exercise and water to keep my body healthy, then the voice begins to suffer and it can't repair overnight from the previous day's work.”

Ifs Trying Enough Body Suffering Voice Water Exercise Drink Healthy Fishes Drink Water

Author:Roger Craig Smith

“If you waste water, you die.”

Ifs Dies Water Waste

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'”

People Ifs Want Political Guy Water Son Seconds Funeral Dump Nancy Your Son

Author:Peter King

“We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.”

Ifs Knows Children Water Know How Knowing Our Lives Survival Crosses Incredibles Australia Live By Swim Not Knowing

Author:Eric Bana

“Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Faces Lying Water Decision Mistake Risk Comfortable Educational Solve Customers Manage Alternatives Doing Nothing Inaction Slap

Author:Thomas Watson

“If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.”

Ifs Should Trying Lasts Science Found Water Knowledge Bottom Ice Freeze Frost Skating Extending

Book:The Essential Samuel Butler

Source: The Essential Samuel Butler

“Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Two Shows Values Water Can Do Share Conversation Prove Evidence Argument Logic Importance Appeals Logical What If Oxygen Hydrogen Logical Arguments

Author:Sam Harris

“You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.”

Ifs Wells Soul Might Water Fire Shapes Blow Your Soul Temper You Choose Hammers Drop Of Water

Author:Margaret Weis

“Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.”

Ifs Mean Long Action Lying Fall Water Cases Study Research Strive Granted Leafs Memorial Posterity Transmit

Author:Pliny the Younger

“A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.”

Source: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.”

Ifs Looks Littles Long Doe Able Certain Three Water Wonder Five Week Keys Six Hundred Sitting Scales Each Day Routine Sixty Buckets

Author:John McPhee

“He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in the water to get him to go in. Of course, he would bring back a stick to you if you did throw one in. He would even have brought back a piano if you had thrown one in.”

Ifs Persons Courses Fun Water Known Dog Sticks Piano Thrown

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.”

Ifs Said Water Swim Good Friend Reggae

Author:Bob Marley

“If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.”

Ifs Men Heaven Water Buddhism Fruit Fishes Superiors Merit Monkeys Living On

Author:Meera

“Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.”

Ifs Hate Water Waste Mask Twilight Veils

Author:Lord Byron

“Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick, feeding the multitudes bread and fish or anything else, except maybe the walking on water. But when he got crucified, that gave him his big start.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Bigs Jesus Christ Water Healing Walking Jesus Christ Sick Folks Fishes Bread Freak Impressed Multitudes Feeding Hippie Walking On Water Healing The Sick

Author:Ted Turner

“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”

Ifs Writing Speak Water Criticism Critics Ill Edges Sand Gossip

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

“Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.”

Ifs Important Hard Dies Water Fire Shelter

Author:Bear Grylls

“If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.”

Ifs Should Hard Running Heaven Water Born Teacher Teaching Sweet Streams Ponds Stagnant Running Water

Book:The Voice of the Silence

Source: The Voice of the Silence

“My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.”

People Ifs Running Age Form Water Havens Stones My Favorite Golden Huts Triangles Thailand Favorite Places Running Water Stone Age Stilts

Author:Arthur Frommer

“Normally, people who are frustrated out in the water are frustrated on land. They brought their frustration with them. If you go to a beach where there are a hundred guys out, and you paddle out looking to ride waves alone, you're setting yourself up.”

People Ifs Guy Water Land Hundred Wave Setting Settings Beach Frustration Frustrated

Author:Laird Hamilton

“A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.”

Ifs Language Given Water Simple Secret Clear Mysterious Carrie Thirst Buckets Gallons

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.”

Ifs Years Body Seems Law Water Impossible Skills Dancing Your Body Gravity Floats Athletics

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.”

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.”

Ifs Water Sea Ocean Hundred Mark Seven Glasses Latter Molecules If Then

Author:Lord Kelvin

“Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it”

Ifs Life Is Bits Water Scared Bottles Life Is Like Pouring Coca Cola

Author:Olive Ann Burns

“Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!”

Ifs Water Path Distance Fishes

Author:Kabir

“If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.”

Ifs Soul Lying Fighting Water Healing Car Findings Devil Window Train Staring Customs Tickets Washing Digging Passports Irritation Packing Tedium Fighting Through

Book:Dodsworth

Source: Dodsworth

“Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.”

Ifs Heart Persons Made Sometimes Body Hands Light Would Be Eye Faces Passion Stars Water Air Sky Promise Garden Rose Evening If I Could Sincerity Making Love Palms Rose Garden Evening Sky

Author:Victor Hugo

“If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.”

Ifs Character Water Empty Glasses

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.”

People Ifs Needs Heart Water Simple Drink Music Is Reggae Reggae Music

Author:Ziggy Marley

“If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.”

Ifs Ideas Water Feet Ocean Nine Swim

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.”

Ifs Long Causes Water Ears Distance Ships Tubes Extremity

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered, human values can grow only in a spiritual soil. If a man wants to cultivate human values, he has to apply the manure of spirituality to his heart, water it with love so that human values will grow.”

Ifs Men World Want Humans Heart Mean Spiritual Values Spirituality Nations Grows Water Progress He Man Shining Seeds Soil Radiance Human Values Sprouts Manure Humanness Humanness Is

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on”

“It's competition. It's putting them in environments, in situations where I want to see who the fighters are and who they guys are that are going to compete. And there will be rewards at the end of the day. Gatorade if you win. You drink out of a water hose if you lose and do some running. And that includes the coaching staff.”

Ifs Want Ends Running Guy Winning Water Loses Situation Environment Drink Competition Rewards Fighter Coaching The End Of The Day Staff Gatorade Coaching Staff

Author:Urban Meyer

“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.”

“The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.”

People Ifs World Years Real Whole Together Water Break Painting Politician Civilization Bridges Keep Going Breaking Down Pipe Steam Maintenance Fixing Subway

Author:Alan Weisman

“If your fire begins to flame, don't spray water on it, which most people do. Instead, just close your dampers and the fire will go out because fire must have oxygen.”

People Ifs Water Fire Flames Oxygen Spray

Author:Johnny Trigg

“I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.”

Ifs I Can Faces Water Hair If I Could Bathroom Combs

Author:Charles Bukowski

“In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.' What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, 'You can't eat your way out of being hungry!' 'You can't water your way out of drought!' 'You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!' 'You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!' Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil? It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.”

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