Ifs Quotes (page 157)

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• look
• looks
• willed

If I look at the mass I will never act. Mother Teresa

• saying
• art
• free

If the whole world I once could see. On free soil stand, with the people free. Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . . so fair thou art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• god
• music
• die

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC Kurt Vonnegut

• cold
• wanting
• catching

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too. Dr. Seuss

• quit
• if at first
• uses

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. Otis Criblecoblis

• good
• thinking
• seeing

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing. Luigi Pirandello

• money
• enough
• commitment

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. Terry Prachett

• commitment
• fate
• mother father

If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better? I am not your fate. I am not your government…I am not your mother, not your father or your nightmare or your health. I am not a fence, not a wall. I am not the law or actuarial tables of your insurance broker. I am a woman with my guts loose in my hands, howling and it’s not because I committed hari-kiri. I suggest either you cook me or sew me back up. I suggest you walk into my pain as into... Marge Piercy

• amazing
• knowing
• amaze

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou

• time
• little
• love

If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little. Anne Lamott

• magic
• hell
• letting

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic. Jean Rhys

• management
• understanding
• responsibility

If "the Nature Cruise of the Century" had come off as planned, the division of duties would have been typical of the management of so many organizations a million years ago, with the nominal leader specializing in sociable balderdash, and with the supposed second-in-command burdened with the responsibility of understanding how things really worked, and what was really going on. Kurt Vonnegut

• reading
• writing
• dead

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you're dead and rotten, either do things worth the writing, or write things worth the reading! Benjamin Franklin

• father son
• son
• father

If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes. Abraham Lincoln

• career
• want me
• letting

If the careers want me, let them find me. Suzanne Collins