Ifs Quotes (page 261)

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• small
• rule
• could

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. George Orwell

• time
• ignorance
• people

If you ignore the rules people will, half the time, secretly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. Terry Prachett

• people
• thoughts
• points

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own? Oscar Wilde

• door
• castle
• furniture

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. Anne Lamott

• understanding
• developed
• observance

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development Aristotle

• walking
• street
• real

If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down. Nadine Gordimer

• relationship
• god
• women

If you ask where a relationship is going too often the question has a habit of turning into where the relationship went. Unfortunately, however, God has given women an inbuilt irresistible urge to insist on knowing where their relationships are going, and to force their partners to discuss the matter at length whenever they are late for something. Helen Fielding

• life
• good
• willing

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span. Ernest Hemingway

• honesty
• writing
• drawing

If there's anything I'm proud of in my work--it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me--or that I write better, no. It's--and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way. Maurice Sendak

• life
• universe
• earth

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum. Voltaire

• look
• bear
• me

If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't. Anna Sewell

• disappointment
• expectation
• disappoint

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. Sylvia Plath

• greatness
• evening
• personal

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out (in his History of England), she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. Virginia Woolf

• people
• saying
• stills

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France

• art
• understanding
• understands

If I don't understand it, it must be art. Bono