"Ifs" Quotes . Top 25 Short Quotes About "Ifs"

"You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Mets #Stories #Type

"If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him."

--- A. E. Waite

#Ends #Fall #Depends

"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Buying #Book #Mere

"If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered."

--- A. Edward Newton

#Love #Found #Life

"Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it."

--- A. G. Gaston

#People #Black Or White #White

"If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind."

--- A. H. Almaas

#Heretic #Certainty #Direct

"I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here."

--- A. J. Burnett

#Followers #Jobs #Ifs

"I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed."

--- A. J. Burnett

#Thinking #Mets #Fans

"I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy."

--- A. J. Cook

#You Can Do It #Stir Crazy #Comfortable

"You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early."

--- A. J. Hawk

#Mean #Feels #Cutting

"Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Thinking #Dark Clouds #Speech

"There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Passionate #Sandwiches #Chewing

"Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Asks #Locked #World

"I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Fans #Writing #Knows

"If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”"

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Starbucks #Mets #Walks

"After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Cognitive Dissonance #Religious Life #Cognitive

"I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#People #Change God #Nice

"I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. I tried the raw food vegan diet. And I tried the calorie restriction diet, which is the idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time. Whether or not you want to, of course, is the idea."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Meat #Calories #Courses

"I know what love feels like. That is one thing I have found. That is one thing that is much clearer because of fibromyalgia. Because once you experience real pain you recognize the vibration, the feeling of being healthy, happy and loved. If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick. I need to do things that feed my soul, like being with people I love, or playing my guitar, or listening to music."

--- A. J. Langer

#People #Healthy Happy #Soul

"If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick."

--- A. J. Langer

#Sick #Heart #My Heart

"I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'"

--- A. J. Liebling

#People #Mets #May

"The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young."

--- A. J. Liebling

#World #Enough #Young

"The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Managers #Character #Organization

"To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Thanks #War #Made

"If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Indifference #Wells #Writing

25 "Ifs" Quotes