If Then Quotes (page 86)

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• affection
• knowledge
• self

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. Ramakrishna

• nature
• understanding
• effort

If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks. Marc Racicot

• kids
• school
• positive

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself. Cynthia Nixon

• god
• world
• bad

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. John Barth

• you me
• walking
• waves

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. Todd Barry

• fear
• magic
• wonder

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? Stevie Nicks

• common
• purpose
• positive

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible. Don Nickles

• priority
• government
• people

If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable. Don Nickles

• work
• feeling
• creativity

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel. Eddie Izzard

• heart
• believe
• my heart

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart. Allen Iverson

• camera
• certainly
• publicity

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public. Lance Ito

• life
• mistake
• ourselves

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life. Thandie Newton

• life
• struggle
• life struggle

If you stop struggling, then you stop life. Huey Newton

• freedom
• feeling
• feelings

If I can feel freedom then I can create. Marc Newson

• be yourself
• originated
• just be yourself

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you. Marc Newson