Ifs And Quotes (page 158)

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• sister
• time
• dead

If you should ask me where I've been all this time. I have to say "Things happen."I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lockwith day? Why the dark night swilling roundin our mouths? And why the dead? Pablo Neruda

• life
• energy
• tension

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido. William S. Burroughs

• wills
• willful
• willingly

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. John Steinbeck

• him
• pride
• feeling

If sacrificing herself for her husband's sake were to prove the last thing that Jassi ever did willingly for her new master . . . well, then, so be it, however bitter the taste to Carcharos. Pride had always been his substitute for honor, but his pride was so long gone from him that he could barely recall the feel of it. And so be that, too. Peter S. Beagle

• learning
• ignorance
• learn

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. Ray Bradbury

• him
• humanity
• understanding

If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of the twentieth century. Barbara Kingsolver

• may
• question
• god

If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward? Marquis de Sade

• good morning
• smile
• good

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. Maya Angelou

• brain
• brainly
• computers

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain. Edward Abbey

• food
• exercise
• guy

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy. Scott Adams

• self
• grace
• old

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. Charles Spurgeon

• life
• writing
• hope

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King

• understanding
• begining
• beginning

If you would understand anyting, observe its beginning and its development. Aristotle

• heart
• heart to heart
• corrupted

If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption. Dean Koontz

• inspiration
• learning
• inspirational

If your action inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams