All Quotes

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.
‐‐ James L. Buckley

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
‐‐ Laura Ingalls Wilder

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
‐‐ Lascelles Abercrombie

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.
‐‐ Mary Roach

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map... My duty is to bring Europe out of its lethargy.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
‐‐ Imre Lakatos

If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.
‐‐ Michael Gove

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

If ever anyone comes up to me, it's usually like, 'You look really like that guy on that show.' And you're like, 'Really?' And they're like, 'Yeah. Cool. See you later.' And you're like, 'Cool, man.'
‐‐ Richard Madden

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
‐‐ Hayley Mills

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
‐‐ Bobby Jones

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
‐‐ Frederic William Farrar

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
‐‐ M. Night Shyamalan

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
‐‐ Cassandra Peterson

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
‐‐ Brad Henry

If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
‐‐ R. J. Cutler

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
‐‐ Louise Slaughter

If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.
‐‐ Tyson Fury

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
‐‐ Bill Shankly

If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age of Medicare eligibility a bit, according to income, and save money.
‐‐ Joe Klein

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.
‐‐ Charles Bent

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
‐‐ Archer John Porter Martin

If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
‐‐ Piers Anthony

If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
‐‐ Graham Nash

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.
‐‐ Martin Amis

If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
‐‐ Bernice Johnson Reagon

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.
‐‐ Christina Romer

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.
‐‐ Richard Jefferies

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?
‐‐ Satya Nadella

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
‐‐ George Weinberg

If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
‐‐ Joy Page