Ifs Quotes (page 287)

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• team
• winning
• help

If nobody will help you, do it alone! There is no 'i' in team, but there is '1' in WIN! Michael Jordan

• believe
• believers
• killer

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. Ice T

• eyes
• grandfather
• hard

If ever I was going to listen to a string of swearwords sitting next to a ninety-four-year-old, I'm glad that ninety-four-year-old was my grandfather. Not that he swears a lot. It's just that he can take it. And, he is currently laughing so hard that his eyes are watery. A. J. Jacobs

• life
• world
• purpose

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress pertaining essentially to life, should be purposeless and purely accidental. Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule. Arthur Schopenhauer

• god
• giving
• needing

If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be aight Tupac Shakur

• change
• different
• enough

If your lucky enough to be different, dont ever change Taylor Swift

• life
• believe
• willfulness

If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact. Arthur Miller

• good
• people
• mitchell

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. Jeffrey Eugenides

• happy times
• soul
• beauty

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman. Louisa May Alcott

• life
• time
• it is what it is

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow. Jay-Z

• he
• clean
• cleaned

If he isn't clean now, I don't know what clean is! Anne McCaffrey

• love
• change
• may

If thou must love me, let it be for nought. Except for love's sake only. Do not say'I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way. Of speaking gently, ... for a trick of thought. That falls in well with mine, and certes brought. A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'For these things in themselves, Beloved, may. Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for. Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who... Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• love
• dog
• dog love

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates. Charles Bukowski

• night
• sick
• powerful

If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night. That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion. William Shakespeare

• failure
• creativity
• act

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure. Madeleine L'Engle