Ifs Quotes (page 111)

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• religious
• science
• world

If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. Albert Einstein

• work
• patience
• depression

If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb, Softly, softly, catchee monkey; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day. Robert Baden-Powell

• fighting
• walking
• walk away

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away. Dan Brown

• universe
• mind
• mindfulness

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane? Charles Fort

• winning
• real
• victory

If you win through bad sportsmanship, that's no real victory."- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

• death
• fear
• understanding

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living. Laurell K. Hamilton

• him
• mind
• mindfulness

If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do. Donna Tartt

• words
• relationship
• different

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too... David R. Brower

• good
• cancer
• healing

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent—now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance. Richard G. Scott

• home
• hard
• little

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain... John Ruskin

• shine
• likes
• want

if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it. Adolf Hitler

• him
• come
• out

If you don’t send Edward out, we’re coming in after him! (Emmett) Stephenie Meyer

• children
• growing up
• headache

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. Charles Spurgeon

• doing
• doing what you want
• you

If you can't do what you want, do what you can. Lois McMaster Bujold

• learning
• magic
• best

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage. Toni Morrison