What If Quotes (page 65)

• 
• 
• 

• art
• justice
• logic

If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. Arthur Conan Doyle

• culture
• greatness
• historical

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb? Friedrich Nietzsche

• time
• money
• school

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money. Seth Godin

• kiss
• look
• you me

If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon Meg Cabot

• selfish
• humanity
• thoughts

If there were any way for me to become human for you - no matter what the price was, I would pay it. Isat very still absorbing this. Edward thought he was being selfish. Stephenie Meyer

• him
• leaving
• choices

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live? George R. R. Martin

• flower
• caring
• mattered

If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers. Daniel Dennett

• energy
• effort
• best

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner. Walter Payton

• earth
• lower
• earthly

If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like? P. G. Wodehouse

• love
• moving
• heart

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love. Sylvia Plath

• earth
• manly
• ways

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way? H. G. Wells

• god
• knowledge
• good

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts? John Gresham Machen

• sleep
• produced
• doe

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce? Guillermo Cabrera Infante

• life
• time
• caring

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs. And stare as long as sheep or cows... W. H. Davies

• greatness
• search
• life

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them. Arthur Schopenhauer