All Quotes

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
‐‐ Mary Gordon

If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

If the motivation is gone, then I am finished.
‐‐ Marit Bjorgen

If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate.
‐‐ Bill McKibben

If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
‐‐ Roland Joffe

If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.
‐‐ Evan Glodell

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.
‐‐ Christian Marclay

If the Muslim is Sharia-compliant, that is in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution.
‐‐ Paul Nehlen

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
‐‐ Zong Qinghou

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.
‐‐ Jurgen Klinsmann

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.
‐‐ Tony La Russa

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
‐‐ Carter G. Woodson

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
‐‐ Carter G. Woodson

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
‐‐ Tom Shales

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

If 'The New York Times' says it, it must be true.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!
‐‐ Frederic Chopin

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
‐‐ Tavi Gevinson

If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.
‐‐ Imogen Heap

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
‐‐ Steve Allen

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.
‐‐ John Ridley

If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
‐‐ Robert Hewison

If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the audience is gone in 20 to 30 years. I find as I keep a broader audience in mind, I choose to sing and say more things I actually want to share and fewer things just for the sake of impressing others.
‐‐ Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
‐‐ Meister Eckhart

If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.
‐‐ Al Gore

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.
‐‐ Lawrence Lessig

If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.
‐‐ Suze Orman

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.
‐‐ Anatoly Karpov

If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.
‐‐ Katie Aselton

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
‐‐ Joseph Stalin

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran