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If I Could Quotes (page 21)

If I could do anything, I would go to the middle of our planet Earth and seek uranium, rubies and gold. I'd look for unspoiled monsters. Then I'd move to the country. --Florie Rotondo, age 8 Truman Capote
If a king should fall under such contempt or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by oppression and ill usage, and by rendering them poor and miserable, it were certainly better for him to quit his kingdom than to retain it by such methods as make him, while he keeps the name of authority, lose the majesty due to it. Thomas More
If people saw the world for what it truly is. Saw their lives for what they truly are. Without dreams or illusions. I don't believe they could offer the first reason why they should not elect to die as soon as possible. Cormac McCarthy
Ani DiFranco quote: "If more people were screamin', I could relax."
If more people were screamin', I could relax. Ani DiFranco
...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years. Michael Herr
Mark Twain quote: "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but..."
If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could..."
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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. George Orwell
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be. Evelyn Waugh
If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened. Jodi Picoult
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed... Vladimir Nabokov
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier. Paulo Coelho
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Charlotte Bronte
If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people. Martin Luther
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's..."
If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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