Ifs Quotes (page 271)

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• creations
• dictators
• dictating

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation. Gertrude Stein

• own
• others
• takes

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• strength
• soul
• hope

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am... Anton Chekhov

• wishes
• fish
• nets

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. Frank Herbert

• becoming
• once
• quit

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit. Never quit!!! Michael Jordan

• packed
• you
• doing you

If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? Steven Wright

• christmas
• wedding
• motivation

If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• light
• where
• outlawed

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going. Alan Moore

• soul
• tough
• him

If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best... Mervyn Peake

• mindfulness
• lost
• personality

If one has given oneself utterly, watching the beloved sleep can be a vile experience. Perhaps some of you have known that paralysis, staring down at features closed to your enquiry, locked away from you where you can never, ever go, into the other’s mind. As I say, for us who have given ourselves, that is a horror. One knows, in those moments, that one does not exist, except in relation to that face, that personality. Therefore, when that face is closed down, that personality is lost in its... Clive Barker

• different
• little
• differing

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently. Freddie Mercury

• drinking
• may
• you

If you thirst you may drink. C. S. Lewis

• humble
• touching
• disgrace

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. Mother Teresa

• blue
• red
• using

If I don't have red, I use blue. Pablo Picasso

• friends
• friend
• good friends

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do. Alexander Pope