All Quotes

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
‐‐ Pat Oliphant

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
‐‐ Nicolas Chamfort

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
‐‐ George Ade

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
‐‐ Dorothy L. Sayers

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
‐‐ Sophocles

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
‐‐ Cesare Pavese

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.
‐‐ Gwen Ifill

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.
‐‐ Jay Baruchel

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.
‐‐ Simon Fuller

If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes.
‐‐ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
‐‐ Lisa Scottoline

If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
‐‐ George Gobel

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
‐‐ Damian Loeb

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.
‐‐ Robin Leach

If it weren't for Miyamoto-san, I wouldn't be where I am.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been long gone. The rapid pace of hardware evolution still keeps things fresh for me.
‐‐ John Carmack

If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?
‐‐ Hoda Kotb

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
‐‐ Johnny Carson

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.
‐‐ Edward Klein

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
‐‐ Donald E. Westlake

If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.
‐‐ Zara Larsson

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
‐‐ Joey Adams

If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live.
‐‐ Chris Kattan

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
‐‐ Carl Perkins

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.
‐‐ Julie Nixon Eisenhower

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.
‐‐ Jef I. Richards

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
‐‐ Bill Shoemaker

If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I'm still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I'm definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can't sing, but I can act like it very well.
‐‐ Keshia Knight Pulliam

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.
‐‐ Townsend Harris

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
‐‐ Shuji Nakamura

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

If Jeff Bezos and I had started Amazon.com in a poverty-stricken corner of Africa, there would have been no job creation because there would be no people to buy the stuff from Amazon.com. The difference here is the American middle class, which is by every measure the most extraordinary economic achievement in the history of the world.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
‐‐ Lenny Bruce

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.
‐‐ Tim LaHaye

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
‐‐ Billy Connolly

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?
‐‐ Mike Tyson