All Quotes

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
‐‐ Norman Spinrad

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.
‐‐ Peer Steinbruck

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
‐‐ Brandon Stanton

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.
‐‐ Condola Rashad

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
‐‐ Richard M. DeVos

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
‐‐ Ricky Martin

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
‐‐ John Malkovich

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.
‐‐ Joan Lingard

If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres, and I'd certainly have more individual titles to market, since it's much easier to write pure genre fiction than it is to create something different.
‐‐ Chet Williamson

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
‐‐ Barbara W. Tuchman

If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.
‐‐ John Key

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
‐‐ Harold Wilson

If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
‐‐ Edward Hopper

If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I'm more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on 'SNL.' I did it in the club.
‐‐ Joe Piscopo

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.
‐‐ Dante Hall

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.
‐‐ Roberto Duran

If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
‐‐ Dana Brunetti

If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.
‐‐ Jenni Rivera

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.
‐‐ Jil Sander

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
‐‐ Samuel Beckett

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.
‐‐ Ron Howard

If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.
‐‐ Giovanni Ribisi

If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
‐‐ Larisa Oleynik

If I had to choose, I would always take the less dynamic, indeed even the lazy person who knows what's right than the zealot in the cause of error. He may move slower, but he's headed in the right direction.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.
‐‐ Herschel Walker

If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
‐‐ Mark Messier

If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.
‐‐ Tarsem Singh

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.
‐‐ Hussein Chalayan

If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

If I had to describe myself, I wouldn't use words like 'hero.' I wouldn't use 'patriot,' and I wouldn't use 'traitor.' I'd say I'm an American and I'm a citizen, just like everyone else.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

If I had to describe myself in one word, 'Hercules.'
‐‐ Bryce Harper

If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson