Ifs Quotes (page 207)

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• funny
• little
• littles

If you were cheap we'd be having sex now, soup later.'That's supposed to be funny. It is, but only a little. Nora Roberts

• life
• change
• fighting

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater. Alan Sillitoe

• water
• believe
• shadow

If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water... J. M. Barrie

• mind
• mindfulness
• empty

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a clttered mind, Of what then is an empty desk a sign? Albert Einstein

• will
• published
• seeks

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be. George V. Higgins

• thinking
• die
• fields

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field. That is for ever England. Rupert Brooke

• art
• work
• him

If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for ‘art’ that leaves him unmoved. Yevgeny Zamyatin

• wishes
• horse
• were

If wishes were horses mine would be glue - Carrie Fisher

• school
• training
• tomorrow

If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that's all we're going to get. School can and must do more than train the factory workers of tomorrow. Seth Godin

• kindness
• keep
• maintain

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself. David Eddings

• ordinariness
• special
• ordinary

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary. Nora Roberts

• love
• disappointment
• believe

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed. Candace Bushnell

• today
• powerful
• contentment

If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement". Christopher Hitchens

• maturity
• real
• humanity

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us. Madeleine L'Engle

• together
• forever
• heart

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever. A. A. Milne