All Quotes

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
‐‐ Karel Capek

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.
‐‐ Moby

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
‐‐ Pat Burns

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
‐‐ Marie de France

If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?
‐‐ Timothy Murphy

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
‐‐ Epictetus

If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light.
‐‐ Tobe Hooper

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
‐‐ Agatha Christie

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.
‐‐ Andrew Scott

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.
‐‐ Jean-Bertrand Aristide

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
‐‐ Steven Wright

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
‐‐ Don Ellis

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
‐‐ Paul Keating

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
‐‐ Alan Thicke

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
‐‐ Dana Hill

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
‐‐ Robert Harris

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
‐‐ Eric Bentley

If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
‐‐ Mahavira

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
‐‐ Lukas Foss

If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'
‐‐ Mitch Leigh

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
‐‐ Aristotle

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
‐‐ David Hilbert

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
‐‐ Aleister Crowley

If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.
‐‐ Steven Curtis Chapman

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
‐‐ Ann Coulter

If only America would realize that the art of Europe is finished - dead - and that America is the country of the art of the future, instead of trying to base everything she does on European traditions!
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.
‐‐ Steven Weber

If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.
‐‐ Leelee Sobieski

If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
‐‐ Kari Matchett

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
‐‐ Johann Georg Hamann

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.
‐‐ Keira Knightley

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
‐‐ Keira Knightley

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
‐‐ John Eldredge