Ifs Quotes · Page 2,341

if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

— Andy Stanley

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if…

— Wislawa Szymborska

I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently,…

— Keith Carter

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect…

— Elijah Wood

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

— Jim Rohn

If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.

— Thom Yorke

If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need…

— Mas Oyama

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not…

— Benjamin Carson

If you truly want to succeed, be prepared to go the extra mile.

— Napoleon Hill

If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger…

— Amishi Jha

I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and…

— Ice Cube

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

— Dawna Markova

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found…

— Jan Schakowsky

When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that…

— Zhuangzi

Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result…

— Steve Allen

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

— Myrtle Reed

Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if…

— Bjork

You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want…

— Georges St-Pierre

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.

— Sergey Brin

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

— Teresa of Avila

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

— Bill Ayers

The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we…

— Nathan Lewis

Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just…

— Dolly Parton

You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism…

— Fred Hampton

I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not…

— Conrad Aiken

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

— Albert Einstein

In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us]…

— Noam Chomsky

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

— Aya Cash

Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should…

— Laurence Sterne

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

— Marilynne Robinson

I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not…

— Andrea Gabriel

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all…

— Margery Wilson

You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through…

— Diana Nyad

Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single…

— Mike Krzyzewski

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

— Glenda Jackson

If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.

— Richard J. Daley

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about…

— Rita Mae Brown

In principle, there’s nothing wrong with the concept of an infographic. What concerns me is the types of things that people are…

— Matt Cutts