All Quotes

If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?
‐‐ Richard Engel

If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.
‐‐ Ari Fleischer

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.
‐‐ Giles Andreae

If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.
‐‐ Ethan Embry

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
‐‐ Max von Laue

If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.
‐‐ Max Beesley

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.
‐‐ J. C. Watts

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
‐‐ Eleanor Holmes Norton

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
‐‐ Irving Kirsch

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
‐‐ Andy Rooney

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
‐‐ Karel Capek

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.
‐‐ Harry Kroto

If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president.
‐‐ Trent Franks

If done correctly, dynamic scoring will provide a more complete picture of Congress's actions. This is exactly the type of modeling the private sector uses, and advances in data collection and analysis create an opportunity for it to be employed accurately.
‐‐ John Delaney

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.
‐‐ Ami Bera

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
‐‐ Adam Duritz

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
‐‐ Carlos Alazraqui

If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.
‐‐ Neil Peart

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.
‐‐ Mary Karr

If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @SomePig Twitter account? I doubt it. Yet, in a way, he'd be missing out because I'm beginning to think that some of this noise is worth making - and some of it is worth hearing, too.
‐‐ Ellen Potter

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.
‐‐ Kjell Magne Bondevik

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.
‐‐ John Hull

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?
‐‐ Richard Avedon

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
‐‐ Peter Zumthor

If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.
‐‐ Cat Cora

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
‐‐ Mary Antin

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
‐‐ Maria Montessori

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!
‐‐ Neil Cavuto

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
‐‐ Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
‐‐ Howard Staunton

If elected, I will win.
‐‐ Pat Paulsen

If elected members of any body - whether it's a state house or Congress - were not willing to take career-ending or at least election-losing votes, I would not have the right to vote today.
‐‐ Elizabeth Esty

If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
‐‐ Lyall Watson

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.
‐‐ Robert Pozen

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy