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What If Quotes (page 67)

What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy. Then they'd come home and take over Earth. OK, not that. -Peter Orson Scott Card
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others. Quentin Crisp
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? Winston Churchill
What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth. Suzanne Collins
Ann Patchett quote: "If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off..."
If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen. Ann Patchett
What? We feel aesthetic pleasure at a sonata by Beethoven and not at one with the same style and charm if it comes from one of our own contemporaries? Isn't that the height of hypocrisy? So then the sensation of beauty is not spontaneous, spurred by our sensibility, but instead is cerebral, conditioned by our knowing a date? No way around it: historical consciousness is so thoroughly inherent in our perception of art that this anachronism (a Beethoven piece written today) would be... Milan Kundera
Edna Ferber quote: "If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells..."
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it. Edna Ferber
Alexander Pope quote: "If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at..."
If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. Alexander Pope
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen. Henrik Ibsen
If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent? Marilyn Monroe
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
If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail. (148) Don DeLillo
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era. Hayao Miyazaki
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. Madeleine L'Engle
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. Susan Sontag

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