Ifs Quotes (page 112)

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• presentation
• better
• present

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Paulo Coelho

• shadow
• friends
• friend

If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends Elizabeth Gaskell

• love
• eyes
• pain

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief. Laurell K. Hamilton

• spring
• water
• walking

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• confidence
• thankful
• saying

If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those... Maya Angelou

• cool
• insanity
• cooling

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity. Charlotte Bronte

• tree
• painting
• red

If you see a red tree, paint it bright red. Paul Cezanne

• passion
• style
• writing

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself Dean Koontz

• thinking
• handsome
• thinks

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think. Lewis Carroll

• blessed
• alcohol
• die

If I've made any "progress" it's that now I know I'll be an alcoholic till the day I die, and that is both my biggest cross and my greatest blessing. Heather King

• world
• work
• mindfulness

If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires Malcolm Gladwell

• sharing
• feeling
• coffee

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair. Suzanne Collins

• bible
• hand
• subversion

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible. Desmond Tutu

• god
• godly
• finds

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances. Dwight L. Moody

• exercise
• turning
• turned

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. George Orwell