Quotes About Conditionals

#1. I don't know what I would do without you. I don't know what I will do without you. I learned about the future tense, how anxiety is encoded into our sentences, our conditionals, our thoughts, how worry is encoded into language itself, into grammar.

Charles Yu

#2. Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false. But I was there that day, so now I am where I am.

Umberto Eco

#3. No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

Vicente Del Bosque

#4. We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.

Richard Dawkins

#5. I had heard of Virginia before only in passing, a "crazy ex" with whom things had not ended well. I was accustomed to this lazy shorthand for men who dislike the emotions of women.

Alana Massey

#6. Methodological naturalism is a "ground rule" of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify

Robert T. Pennock

#7. If I have my way, you'll have her no longer.

Maya Banks

#8. People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding - a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

Wilhelm Stekel

#9. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

Maya Lin

#10. I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on.

Chadwick Boseman

#11. Don't take security in the false refuge of consensus.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. Memory fans out from imagination, and vice versa, and why not. Memory isn't a well but an offshoot. It goes secretly. Comes apart. Deceives. It's guilty of repurposing the meaning of deep meaning and poking fun at what you've emotionalized. And

Durga Chew-Bose

#13. Acknowledging our ignorance can give us the strength to conquer and extend our limit.

Jan Jansen

#14. We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

Cesar Chavez

#15. Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.

Peter Landesman

#16. Library events scare me, as they provide refuge for local historians, fabulists, tellers of tall tales, historical reenactors, and even dream weavers. Not to mention the single most feared creature on the planet: the self-published poet

Joe Queenan

#17. wtf even is your sexuality

Dan Howell

#18. Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?

Robert Baden-Powell

#19. I could fuck you or kill you and not care about either

T.C. McCarthy