Ifs Quotes (page 121)

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• god
• atheist
• there being no god

If there were no God, there would be no atheists. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• color
• love
• vine

If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood. Donna Tartt

• sympathy
• look
• dictionaries

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary. David Sedaris

• personality
• personal
• you

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up. Brigham Young

• progress
• today
• different

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs? Virginia Woolf

• achievement
• mindfulness
• heart

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it! Jesse Jackson

• mother
• would
• coveting

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• manly
• kindness
• bed

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily. Paulo Coelho

• buddhism
• culture
• outsider

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia. Aung San Suu Kyi

• nature
• law
• governors

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. Thomas Jefferson

• saying
• government
• sayings

If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government. Lenny Bruce

• dark
• money
• science

If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules Neal Stephenson

• if then
• puts
• ringing

If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it. Beyonce Knowles

• time
• bad
• father

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God. Hans Kung

• learning
• challenge
• effort

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas Dean Koontz