All Quotes

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
‐‐ Jim DeMint

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
‐‐ Imtiaz Ali

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
‐‐ Morris Raphael Cohen

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.
‐‐ Eve Arnold

If a piece makes you look good and makes it easier to get dressed, it wins.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.
‐‐ Paul Waner

If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.
‐‐ Max Heindel

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.
‐‐ Lynn Swann

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.
‐‐ Ruud Gullit

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.
‐‐ Bobby Orr

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.
‐‐ John Wooden

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
‐‐ A. R. Ammons

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
‐‐ Charles Ives

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
‐‐ David Hackworth

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
‐‐ Meg Greenfield

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.
‐‐ Richard Preston

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.
‐‐ James Lovelock

If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.
‐‐ Tony Verna

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.
‐‐ Seth Godin

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
‐‐ Robert Fripp

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
‐‐ Alfred Korzybski

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
‐‐ Oliver St. John

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
‐‐ Carter G. Woodson

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.
‐‐ James Q. Wilson

If a really, really pretty girl needs a ride home, I'm your guy.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
‐‐ Regina Brett

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.
‐‐ Rosanne Cash

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'
‐‐ Rory Stewart

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
‐‐ Sam Raimi

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
‐‐ Dan Brown

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.
‐‐ Terry Savage

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
‐‐ Imogen Poots

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
‐‐ Alan Ball

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.
‐‐ James McAvoy

If a school makes an effort to provide kids the right foods and help them to be more active, this benefits the student and the family's health. If you embark on a program to improve your health with a church or community group, you are more likely to stick with it over time.
‐‐ Tom Rath

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.
‐‐ John Wilbanks

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.
‐‐ Ben Goldacre