All Quotes

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
‐‐ Alan Rickman

If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory farms torture animals. Indeed, producing a single hamburger patty requires more water than two weeks of showers. But for those of us who are weak-willed, there's nothing like a juicy burger.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
‐‐ Tim Conway

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
‐‐ Katherine Mansfield

If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
‐‐ Garth Nix

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
‐‐ Alberto Giacometti

If only Tammy knew how much I really cared about her. She has nothing to do with any of this mess.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
‐‐ Alva Myrdal

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
‐‐ Fetty Wap

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
‐‐ Ben Elton

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?
‐‐ Judy Blume

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
‐‐ Greta Garbo

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
‐‐ Joan Bennett

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.
‐‐ Liv Ullmann

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
‐‐ Edith Wharton

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
‐‐ Franz Schubert

If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.
‐‐ Richard Preston

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.
‐‐ John McAfee

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
‐‐ Milton Berle

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
‐‐ Gary Hamel

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
‐‐ Kerry Thornley

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
‐‐ James Whistler

If other people have problems with my competitions, then there's nothing I can do.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

If other people think I'm okay looking, that's great, but I don't see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.
‐‐ Mark Harmon

If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.
‐‐ Steven Gerrard

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.
‐‐ Stephen Harper

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
‐‐ Vikram Patel

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
‐‐ Bart Gordon

If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.
‐‐ Robert Casey

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
‐‐ Ernst Mach

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.
‐‐ Eliezer Yudkowsky

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.
‐‐ Avi Rubin

If our focus in immigration reform is exclusively on high-skilled or STEM immigrants, where do the rest of the millions yearning to join our ranks fit in?
‐‐ Cedric Richmond

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
‐‐ Rand Paul

If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can't you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice?
‐‐ Bill Flores

If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.
‐‐ Russell Pearce