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“It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.”

“Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.”

Ifs Want Years Book Different Stories Use Culture Courses Challenges Building Years Ago Bridges Different Cultures New Books Building Bridges

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost 35 years ago, or what's especially pleasant is if you're talking about some movie that you did 35 years ago and they're 20 years old.”

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Author:Walter Hill

“I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.”

“Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.”

“Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.”

“It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.”

“Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.”

Ifs Knows Years Women Angel Years Ago Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Once Upon A Time

Author:Carolyn Warner

“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?”

“Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, “If I were gay, you’d be the one.” I said, “I’m there!””

Ifs Years Wells Said Couple Mets Gay Years Ago Awards Sandy

Author:Emma Thompson

“If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.”

“I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Heart Littles Hours Five Six Eating Years Ago Meat Chickens Heart Beat Eating Meat Heart Beating

Author:Constance Marie

“If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”

Ifs Years Book Purpose Three Reading Hundred Years Ago Yesterday Printed

Book:Sketches and Essays

Source: Sketches and Essays

“If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.”

Ifs Should Years Different Done Principles Saws Subjects Ten Years Ago

Author:Michael Haneke

“I do like a variety of things so I'm always interested in finding something that I haven't done before, if possible, to whatever degree that sometimes changes, and how much is something now that I wouldn't have a year ago but sort of based on what I've done recently as well.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.”

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Author:John Waters

“I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man comic that I inked for her for DC and she said it was the only time that she'd ever had anyone ink her. Everyone else put in their own personality and changed it. In fact, bless her heart, she said if she were still doing Brenda Starr, she'd have me ink it.”

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Author:Mike Royer

“I don't have any expectations about my films. If they're good, they're good - if they're not, they're not. About 10 years ago, I remember going to see one of my movies - I can't even remember which one now - and everyone was jumping up and down, getting excited, saying what a great film it was going to be. We all went in and watched it, and it was the slowest movie I've ever seen. The next day, the reviews were terrible and half the studio was fired.”

Ifs Years I Can Remember Film Next Half Terrible Expectations Years Ago Studios Excited Reviews Next Day Jumping Up And Down Great Film

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Shows Would Be Guy Pay Millions Plans Taxes Years Ago Mark Bills Dollars Cheating Cheat Incentives Quiz Quiz Show

Author:Dave Barry

“If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.”

Ifs Way Want Years Mean I Can Deals Years Ago Checks Discussion Thread Email

Author:Mark Cuban

“I think most presidents are amazed at the overwhelming responsibility they have when they enter office and the tremendous amount of work there is. See, a modern president has far more responsibility than a president years ago. And if I were rewriting the Constitution, I would suggest a president be more like a monarch and then have a prime minister under him.”

Ifs Thinking Years President Responsibility Modern Amount Office Years Ago Constitution Ministers Prime Overwhelming Amazed Prime Minister Monarchs Rewriting

Author:Billy Graham

“If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.”

Ifs Way Years Humans Able Natural Years Ago Wave Disaster Horrible Heat Texas Pakistan Human History Natural Disaster Flooding Heat Wave

Author:Bill McKibben

“Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.”

People Ifs Years Looks Given Safe Commitment Years Ago Critics Reviews Given Up

Author:John Fante

“I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.”

Ifs Years Matter Reality Today Song Creative Materials Picks Years Ago Shells

Author:Antony Hegarty

“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.”

Ifs Years Different Force Business Situation Environment Influence Possibility Negative Years Ago Impact Assuming Bunch Optimistic Positively Negative Influence

Author:Jeffrey Hollender

“Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.”

“I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Years Humans Important Reason Might Happens Three Human Beings Behinds Worry Alive Week Years Ago Procrastination Staying Alive Savanna

Author:James Surowiecki

“Julia Roberts was really rather lovely. I had to interview her on Pebble Mill At One years ago. You learn not to be starstruck if you're trying to get a decent interview out of someone. If you fall apart it's counter productive.”

Ifs Trying Years Fall Years Ago Lovely Interviews Decent Productive Falling Apart Mills Pebbles Julia

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.”

Ifs Men World Years Two Saws Planets Thousand Bird Angel Years Ago Ancient Planes Thousand Years Another World Messengers

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.”

Ifs Years Hard Courses Clear Fronts Bears Sitting Years Ago Fifty Toys Desks Teddy Teddy Bear

Author:Pam Brown

“Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.”

Ifs Writing Years Years Ago Shame Seven Sermons Seven Years Methodists

Author:John Wesley

“It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.”

Ifs Years Interesting Fashion Prove Years Ago Hats Really Interesting

Author:Sebastian Horsley

“If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.”

Ifs World Years Happens Audience Television Internet Kissing Years Ago Available Phenomenon Site Cables Theatrical Movie Business

Author:Michael Eisner

“When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Different Body Years Ago Astrology Celestial Different Place Celestial Bodies Capricorns Sagittarius

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.”

Ifs Thinking Years Believe Long Ideas Done Universe Activity Years Ago Train Seven Billions Fantastic Believe In God Satisfying Thrilling If You Believe Seven Days

Author:Bill Bryson

“I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105, I'll be scribbling away. If it was 100 years ago I'd be sitting by the campfire, saying, "Have I got a story to tell you."”

Ifs Years Stills Stories Passion Morning Sitting Years Ago Wake Up Campfire

Author:Jackie Collins

“If only I had known a year ago what I'd be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.”

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Author:Martha Manning

“If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.”

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Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.”

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Author:Edward Leedskalnin

“Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art... We were a very young country and had very few opportunities of seeing beautiful things, works of art... So, I determined to make it my life's work if I could.”

Ifs Needs Years Art Country Beautiful Young Opportunity Seeing Years Ago Decided Determined Our Country If I Could Works Of Art Beautiful Things

Author:Isabella Stewart Gardner

“I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.”

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Author:Theresa Wayman

“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.”

“I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.”

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Author:Wilhelm II

“Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child.”

Ifs Thinking Years Children Ideas Doubt Products Behavior Years Ago Experiments Conclusion Accurate Live Your Life Flawed Breakthrough Habitual

Book:You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps

Source: You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps

“As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor.”

Ifs Needs Years Long Two Years Ago Doctors Two Years Penalties Two Years Ago

Author:Rafael Benitez

“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.”

Ifs Thinking Years Long Two Matter Past Three Too Much Pieces Alive Written Hundred Years Ago Performances Productions Long Ago Live In The Present

Author:David Finckel

“If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.”

Ifs Writing Years Force Perfect Five Quiet Years Ago Five Years Mature Better Than You

Book:Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912

Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912

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