All Quotes

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.
‐‐ Townsend Harris

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
‐‐ Lake Bell

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
‐‐ Antonia Fraser

If I write the song, I get to name it.
‐‐ Britt Daniel

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.
‐‐ Ayumi Hamasaki

If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'
‐‐ Annie Golden

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
‐‐ Norman MacCaig

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
‐‐ Sharon Olds

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
‐‐ Malcolm X

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.
‐‐ Alexi Giannoulias

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
‐‐ Judy Woodruff

If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.
‐‐ Gail Collins

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
‐‐ Adam Carolla

If, in 2014, we're still making 'white savior movies,' then it's just lazy and unfortunate. We've grown up as a country, and cinema should be able to reflect what's true. And what's true is that black people are the center of their own lives and should tell their own stories from their own perspectives.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
‐‐ John McEnroe

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
‐‐ A. E. Waite

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.
‐‐ Bram Fischer

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
‐‐ Michelangelo

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
‐‐ Anatoly Karpov

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
‐‐ Stewart Udall

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
‐‐ Oswald Chambers

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild

If in sports you have a life cycle for 10 or 15 years, in fashion, you have no cycle; you're in it forever as long as you stay healthy. And I want to be in it forever.
‐‐ Peter Nygard

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.
‐‐ Ellen Key

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
‐‐ Gelett Burgess

If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
‐‐ Jed S. Rakoff

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.
‐‐ David Blunkett

If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.
‐‐ Christina Romer

If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.
‐‐ Rachael Taylor

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
‐‐ David Mamet

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
‐‐ E. T. Bell

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
‐‐ Gene Robinson