Ifs Quotes - Page 294

And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.

I think everything obviously comes from experience of some kind. It's more about if you closely adhere to that experience or if you extrapolate from it.

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God.

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

What is life if not a gamble?

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.