Ifs And Quotes (page 178)

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• lesson
• wishes
• evening

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky. Alice Hoffman

• silence
• tears
• long

If I should meet thee After long years How should I greet thee? With silence and tears. George Byron

• business
• home
• mindfulness

If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads? Henry David Thoreau

• ignorance
• focus
• crazy

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy. Jodi Picoult

• religious
• philosophical
• mindfulness

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind. Jack Vance

• food
• fear
• avoiding

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the relgion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James A. Michener

• women
• saying
• manly

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong? Steven Wright

• book
• memorial
• mind

If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it...yes, books are like flypaper - memories cling to the printed page better than anything... Cornelia Funke

• caring
• song
• writing

If Jimmy indeed cracked corn and you truly didn't care, why the fuck did you write a song about it? I call bullshit. Jim Goad

• wishes
• wishful
• doe

If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed. Lao Tzu

• powerful
• rich
• farmer

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream. Edward Abbey

• believe
• doing
• believes

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves. Thomas Paine

• time
• nice
• world

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler. Haruki Murakami

• change
• music
• history

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. Tom Stoppard

• street
• health
• manly

If any man has a ghostBourne has a ghosta tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone streets still left in downtown New York,crying out in a shrill soundless giggle:War is the health of the State. John Dos Passos