Ifs And Quotes (page 172)

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• mirror
• look
• hand

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me. Gerard Way

• people
• effort
• she

If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion. Roberto Bolano

• being
• reasonably
• reasonableness

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable. Kurt Vonnegut

• small
• life
• discrimination

If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity in a reader unerringly to discriminate in a novel between the inconsistencies of conception and those of life. As elsewhere, experience is the only guide here; but as no one man’s experience can be coextensive with what is, it may be unwise in every case to rest upon it. Herman Melville

• crush
• truly
• crushing

If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them. George R. R. Martin

• him
• enemy
• wants

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him. Idries Shah

• heart
• hard
• blood

If your heart was hard, that would be better / You could only break it once or twice / After that it would be rid of blood and you could let it turn to ice. Bono

• fighting
• understanding
• wellness

And if I end up with blood on my hands, well I know, that you'll understand, 'cause I fight like a girl. Emilie Autumn

• life
• happy
• die

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again. Suzanne Collins

• real
• snow
• white

If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow’ (Isaiah 1:18). Thomas S. Monson

• god
• thinking
• world

If it were profitable to have indentured servants in the modern world, I'm sure that Richard Scaife's think tanks would have no trouble finding justifications, and assorted Christian groups would explain why it's God's will. Paul Krugman

• english
• new
• law

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion. Learned Hand

• flower
• people
• smelled

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them. Kanye West

• meetings
• treated
• just

If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same. Rudyard Kipling

• thinking
• life
• path

If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love. Bell Hooks