All Quotes

If nothing else, the Internet allows people to put their ideas out there and let the world decide whether they're worth paying attention to.
‐‐ Alex Steffen

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
‐‐ Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
‐‐ Charles Edward Merriam

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.
‐‐ Charles Inglis

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
‐‐ Nikki Giovanni

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
‐‐ Donna Reed

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.
‐‐ Kesha Rogers

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

If Obama raises my company's taxes by 20 percent, how am I going to be able to survive as a company? Well, if I've got 30 employees, that means I'm going to have to lay off 10 employees so I can be able to keep up with the health and benefits and pension plans for my other 20 employees.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.
‐‐ John Cornyn

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
‐‐ Ted Cruz

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
‐‐ Talcott Parsons

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
‐‐ David Harvey

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.
‐‐ Rick Renzi

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
‐‐ Polykarp Kusch

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.
‐‐ Johann Most

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
‐‐ Thomas de Quincey

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
‐‐ Ludwig Borne

If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
‐‐ Imran Khan

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.
‐‐ Joe Nichols

If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.
‐‐ Bill Gurley

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
‐‐ Sophocles

If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off immediately after, before they even know what's going on. The one who stays behind may be prey.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
‐‐ Robert Frost

If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
‐‐ Enid Blyton

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
‐‐ Emil Zatopek

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
‐‐ Margery Allingham

If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.
‐‐ Anna Wintour

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
‐‐ Ruhollah Khomeini

If one committee controlled your entire budget, I think you might make some effort to build up personal relationships. I think it is a no-brainer.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
‐‐ Eugene Delacroix

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
‐‐ John B. S. Haldane

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
‐‐ Gary Oldman