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What If Quotes (page 76)

Emily Bronte quote: "If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I..."
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Emily Bronte
Meg Cabot quote: "if you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you..."
if you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you feel passionate about, then follow that dream. Meg Cabot
Charles M. Schulz quote: "What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it?..."
What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time! Charles M. Schulz
If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened. Jodi Picoult
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. Thomas Carlyle
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not..."
What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate? Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams quote: "If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there..."
If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there? Douglas Adams
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? Eleanor Roosevelt
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. Walter Anderson
What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy tracts. There might be eighty feet of road carpeted by white butterflies, so many of them that if you drove too fast your tires lost their grip, and some people lost their lives, skidding on butterflies. Paul Theroux
What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes until the very last moment a state of inner disintegration and biological decay; sallow ugliness, sensuously marred and worsted, which nevertheless is able to fan its smouldering concupiscence to a pallid impotence, which from the glowing depths of the spirit draws strength to cast down a whole proud people at the foot of the Cross and set its own foot... Thomas Mann
If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it--pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. "Artistic" fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions--and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions. Julia Cameron
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the... Anais Nin
What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. Epictetus
If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution. William S. Burroughs

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