Ifs Quotes (page 292)

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• book
• reading
• writing

If there is a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison

• passion
• writing
• character

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. W. Somerset Maugham

• mistake
• makes
• corrective

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. Confucius

• you me
• look at me
• understanding

If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh) Nora Roberts

• look
• you me
• look at me

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Emily Bronte

• growth
• search
• best

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• walking
• thoughts
• flower

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson

• life
• chance
• coming back

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance Danielle Steel

• school
• book
• time

If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century. Stephen King

• beautiful
• beauty
• world

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics Paul Auster

• moments
• winter
• spring

If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change. Ursula K. Le Guin

• to live
• forever
• feeling

if you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you feel passionate about, then follow that dream. Meg Cabot

• bad
• humanity
• people

If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens, and, when they become leaders of nations, against humanity? Dean Koontz

• evening
• decision
• decision making

If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I would not make essays, I would make decisions. Michel de Montaigne

• saying
• business
• father

If you do shit gold, Father, find a privy and get busy, he wanted to say, but he knew better. --Tyrion Lannister George R. R. Martin