Ifs Quotes (page 243)

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• downs
• desired
• possessiveness

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. Simone Weil

• sad
• flower
• fate

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad. John Lancaster Spalding

• powerful
• nature
• humanity

If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. Dave Barry

• good
• god
• godly

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not? Kurt Vonnegut

• drawing
• wellness
• might

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it. Edward Gorey

• time
• kindness
• good

If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of."That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em. Laura Ingalls Wilder

• good
• ignorance
• thinking

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance. David Suzuki

• kiss
• you me
• life

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong! Diana Wynne Jones

• stupid
• messes
• thy

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out. Will Rogers

• art
• bad
• wellness

If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong. John Irving

• fly
• universe
• serious

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe. Joe Rogan

• manly
• my man
• time

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. Jonathan Swift

• she
• grandmother
• grandmothers

If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her."Ranger Janet Evanovich

• rock
• climbing
• top

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring,... John Muir

• time
• moments
• experience

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again. Guy de Maupassant