All Quotes

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
‐‐ Ann Coulter

If a vaccine works, then the vaccinators might conceivably set up what's known as ring vaccinations around Ebola hot spots. In this technique, medical workers simply vaccinate everybody in a ring, miles deep, around a focus of a virus.
‐‐ Richard Preston

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.
‐‐ Richard King

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
‐‐ Stephen Malkmus

If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.
‐‐ John Perez

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.
‐‐ Dar Williams

If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.
‐‐ Daniel Yergin

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
‐‐ Beatrice Webb

If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
‐‐ Standing Bear

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
‐‐ Tom Peters

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
‐‐ Saskya Pandita

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
‐‐ Mary Astell

If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.
‐‐ John Fleming

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.
‐‐ Ginny Brown-Waite

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
‐‐ Lucy Stone

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.
‐‐ Nicole Holofcener

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.
‐‐ Esha Gupta

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn't look put on, it's pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that's terribly sexy too - like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.
‐‐ Eric Mabius

If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.
‐‐ Alanna Ubach

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.
‐‐ Norman Reedus

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.
‐‐ Isaiah Mustafa

If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
‐‐ Chris Rock

If a woman wants to take her husband's name, that's her choice, and I still think she can be feminist while doing that.
‐‐ Roxane Gay

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
‐‐ Steven Wright

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
‐‐ Ilan Stavans

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn't expect my writers to do that.
‐‐ Bill Clegg

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
‐‐ Harry Shearer

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
‐‐ Arne Glimcher

If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.
‐‐ Richard Li

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.
‐‐ Chloe Grace Moretz

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.
‐‐ Jamie Chung

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.
‐‐ Enrico Colantoni

If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
‐‐ Ed Sheeran