Ifs Quotes (page 276)

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• love
• thoughts
• die

If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. Margaret Atwood

• him
• cheer
• husband

If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die one it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died. Ernest Hemingway

• wishes
• men
• humanity

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

• short
• pride
• evening

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome? P. D. James

• time
• she
• her

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. John Updike

• work
• goals
• wellness

If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs. Marvin J. Ashton

• help
• true
• play

If it be true that good wine needs no bush,'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. William Shakespeare

• life
• down
• downing

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down. Lynda Barry

• end
• personal
• chance

If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is. Kurt Vonnegut

• heart
• mind
• mindfulness

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart. Paulo Coelho

• could
• oneness
• everyone

If you could bottle it, everyone would have one! Cher

• consider
• data
• willed

If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data. William S. Burroughs

• learning
• cheating
• earn

If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. Napolean Hill

• promise
• little
• breaks

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones. Cormac McCarthy

• she
• evening
• saying

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick. Jodi Picoult