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Ifs And Quotes (page 171)

Terry Brooks quote: "If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much..."
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart" ~ Terry Brooks Terry Brooks
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction? Cotton Mather
If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much. Terry Brooks
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even..."
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Grover Cleveland quote: "If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card..."
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered. Grover Cleveland
Conan O'Brien quote: "If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your..."
If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention. Conan O'Brien
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour..."
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved Friedrich Nietzsche
If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will. Kurt Vonnegut
If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. Carl Sagan
If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison
Paulo Coelho quote: "If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words..."
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence Paulo Coelho
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings. Jack Kerouac
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. Voltaire
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. Socrates
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp. Bill Bryson

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