Ifs Quotes - Page 310

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine compound was chemically formed ready to undergo stillmore complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

This is a business, and I'll deal with it when it comes. If it comes, it comes.

If I love a song, I make it mine.

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent.

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

My values are non-negotiable. And if it means not getting a role, it means not getting a role.

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

My boyfriend always says that if it weren't for him I'd probably get rid of my apartment and live nowhere, and he's right.

He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. "I do not know who to be without him.

The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.

I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.

I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.