Quotes on Ifs

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

I love thee with the passion put to use_x000D_ _x000D_ In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. _x000D_ _x000D_ I love thee with a love I seemed to lose_x000D_ _x000D_ With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, _x000D_ _x000D_ Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, _x000D_ _x000D_ I shall but love thee better after death.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.