Iffing Quotes & Sayings

I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem. — Ma Jun

Writing is self-expression and no matter how complex the idea might be in the head when it is put in paper, it simplifies. It gives pleasure. It keeps track of who we are. Keeping a habit of writing is very beneficial to anyone. It is a bliss. — Bishwas Mishra

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction. — Judith Martin

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started. — Roald Dahl

When you have moments on your own or spaces in your time, just focus on the well at the root of your soul. Imagine that nourishing stream of belonging, ease, peace, and delight. Feel, with your visual imagination, the refreshing waters of that well gradually flowing up through the arid earth of the neglected side of your heart. It is helpful to imagine this particularly before you sleep. Then during the night you will be in a constant flow of enrichment and belonging. You will find that when you awake at dawn, there will be a lovely, quiet happiness in your spirit. One — John O'Donohue

I like being moved. I don't like being pushed. — John Cage

But only a brief moment
is granted to the brave
one breath or two, whose wage is
The long nights of the grave — Muhammad Iqbal

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. — Arthur Bloch

Aamah would sometimes remind them that the story of an old disputte should be retold only when no aftertaste of bitterness remains upon the tongue. — Catherine M. Wilson

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm what-iffing! I don't what-if! What-iffing is for growups. They what-if themselves right into doing nothing, and die without ever living. — Karen Marie Moning

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. — Roald Dahl

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer