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What If Quotes (page 53)

William Gaddis quote: "If you want to make a million you don't have to understand..."
If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money William Gaddis
If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes. Chuck Klosterman
Douglas Adams quote: "If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard..."
If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me. Douglas Adams
Charles M. Schulz quote: "What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?"
What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? Charles M. Schulz
Michael Phelps quote: "If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever..."
If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do. Michael Phelps
If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control. Frank Herbert
If there is a single fact which anyone who seriously studies the history of Christianity cannot help but be struck by, it is the almost complete absence of documents regarding the man whose name this great international religion bears -- Jesus Christ. We know of him only what is told to us in the New Testament gospels, that is, practically nothing. Savitri Devi
If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?"Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty. Orson Scott Card
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors. Samuel Beckett
Paulo Coelho quote: "What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not..."
What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life. Paulo Coelho
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. Mark Twain
Carl Rogers quote: "What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly."
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Carl Rogers
A. A. Milne quote: "What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be..."
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. A. A. Milne
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata--of creatures that worked like machines--would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to... C. S. Lewis
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect. Noam Chomsky

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