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If I Could Quotes (page 14)

If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness. Jane Roberts
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women Louisa May Alcott
If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music. . you wouldn't see darkness. . you'd see an illumination that is all your own. . light and beauty come together in you in a thousand different patterns. Anne Rice
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue Tina Fey
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side. Elizabeth Goudge
If one could run the story of that first human group like a speeded-up motion picture through a million years of time, one might see the stone in the hand change to the flint ax and the torch. Loren Eiseley
If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase. George Carlin
Haruki Murakami quote: "If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best..."
If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect. Haruki Murakami
Stephenie Meyer quote: "If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass..."
If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands. Stephenie Meyer
Graham Greene quote: "If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes."
If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes. Graham Greene
Ernest Hemingway quote: "If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of..."
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. Ernest Hemingway
If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is... C. S. Lewis
If that (to travel hopefully is better to arrive) were true, and known to be true, how could anyone travel hopefully? There would be nothing to hope for. C. S. Lewis
Temple Grandin quote: "If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not...."
If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am. Temple Grandin
If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not? Charles Dickens

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