Quotes on Ifs

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow, _x000D_ you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.