Ifs Quotes (page 107)

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• hope
• him
• today

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him. Charles Spurgeon

• great
• touching
• end

If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the... F. Scott Fitzgerald

• ego
• wanted
• importation

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. Douglas Adams

• may
• power
• failure

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of... Jane Austen

• wings
• without
• them

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. Coco Chanel

• lawyer
• delighting
• musicians

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? George Carlin

• helpful
• end
• hand

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm. Katharine Hepburn

• writing
• choose
• some

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. John McPhee

• fall
• caring
• tree

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care? Gary Larson

• die
• accomplishment
• unreal

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. Rainer Maria Rilke

• if then
• surely
• then

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you. Muhammad Ali

• moments
• look
• hand

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. Georgia O'Keeffe

• guitar
• you me
• play

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go. Eric Clapton

• guilty
• remaining
• complications

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. Albert Einstein

• manly
• lives
• live

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere. Arthur C. Clarke