Ifs Quotes (page 316)

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• skin
• dog
• animal

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible. Steven Morrissey

• doing
• you can do it
• cans

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. Van Morrison

• could
• surrendering
• surrender

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. Toni Morrison

• end
• own
• someone

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. Toni Morrison

• become
• head
• becoming

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. Shelley Morrison

• feeling
• people
• poetry

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. Jim Morrison

• wanted
• vengeance
• wants

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance. Denise Morrison

• love
• art
• learning

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art. William Morris

• small
• comforting
• past

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. Simon Conway Morris

• passion
• energy
• film

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day. Estelle Morris

• good
• money
• thinking

If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money. Estelle Morris

• progress
• education
• best

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services? Estelle Morris

• random
• celebration
• country

If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown. Chris Morris

• people
• cooking
• eating

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. Robert Morley

• reminds
• reminding yourself
• reminding

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. Christopher Morley