All Quotes

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
‐‐ Michael Merzenich

If a brand genuinely wants to make a social contribution, it should start with who they are, not what they do. For only when a brand has defined itself and its core values can it identify causes or social responsibility initiatives that are in alignment with its authentic brand story.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its celebrity. This simple shift in approach unlocks enormous transformative potential for brands.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.
‐‐ Cornel Wilde

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
‐‐ Ellen Tauscher

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
‐‐ Arne Jacobsen

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
‐‐ Harvey Milk

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
‐‐ Don King

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.
‐‐ Bill James

If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.
‐‐ Bill Keller

If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.
‐‐ Charles W. Pickering

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
‐‐ Brian Clough

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
‐‐ Denis Leary

If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.
‐‐ ASAP Rocky

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.
‐‐ Suze Orman

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
‐‐ Shiv Khera

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
‐‐ Josette Sheeran

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
‐‐ Ferran Adria

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
‐‐ Richard John Neuhaus

If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.
‐‐ Joe Torre

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, don't laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if that's funny, then you laugh. If it's not, you don't laugh - or at very worst, you can leave quietly.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.
‐‐ Scott McCloud

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
‐‐ David Ricardo

If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.
‐‐ Gerry Harvey

If a company is not a monopoly, then the law assumes market competition can restrain the company's actions. No problem. If a monopoly exists, but the monopoly does not engage in acts designed to destroy competition, then we can assume that it earned and is keeping its monopoly the pro-consumer way: by out-innovating its competitors.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.
‐‐ Dilip Shanghvi

If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
‐‐ Sam Altman

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.
‐‐ Paul Rand

If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all.
‐‐ Carol Loomis

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
‐‐ Louis Begley

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
‐‐ Gustav Mahler

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
‐‐ Charles Ives

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.
‐‐ Richard Rodgers

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
‐‐ Richard Holbrooke

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
‐‐ Pat Buchanan

If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam