Quotes on Ifs

There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52)

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English...?

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure.

if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved Miss Barrett. Looking up at her from under his eyebrows as she lay, severe and silent on the sofa, he knew that he must love her for ever. Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?