If I Could Quotes (page 15)

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• growing up
• casting
• caste

If only you could keep them that way: cast in amber, never growing up Jodi Picoult

• anything
• long ago
• should have

If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• meaningful
• dirty
• look

If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes. Frank O'Hara

• sea
• school
• bird

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet. Lewis Thomas

• people
• lost
• saying

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost? Jodi Picoult

• learning
• light
• lesson

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• death
• acceptance
• cheer

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death. Arthur Conan Doyle

• men
• knowing
• know

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. Elbert Hubbard

• writing
• luck
• words

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence Paulo Coelho

• saying
• hand
• future

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?... But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated...'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan,'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'... All that was needed was a series of victories over your own memory. George Orwell

• crush
• truly
• crushing

If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them. George R. R. Martin

• single
• personality
• school

If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it! J. K. Rowling

• yellow
• color
• scientific

If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good. Robert Fulghum

• disappear
• others
• ifs

If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot. Emile M. Cioran

• could
• which
• occurred

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. John Berger