All Quotes

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.
‐‐ Nader al-Masri

If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.
‐‐ Tom Allen

If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
‐‐ Russell Hoban

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
‐‐ John Acton

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
‐‐ Anatole France

If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.
‐‐ Jose Ferreira

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'
‐‐ Timothy Noah

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
‐‐ Barack Obama

If the people dig it, then I dig it. If the people wanna hear it, then I wanna play it.
‐‐ Bobby Keys

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
‐‐ Yogi Berra

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
‐‐ Nathaniel Smith

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
‐‐ Chuck Berry

If the people like watching me, see me as an example of someone succeeding, as a young guy who has the will to win, then I'm happy.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.
‐‐ Cindy Sheehan

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
‐‐ Lewis Black

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
‐‐ Gouverneur Morris

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.
‐‐ Guru Nanak

If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
‐‐ Ted Turner

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
‐‐ Edward Hopper

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.
‐‐ Norton Simon

If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
‐‐ Charles E. Merrill

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
‐‐ Bill Parcells

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.
‐‐ Don Yaeger

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.
‐‐ Steven Adler

If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.
‐‐ Theresa May

If the political will is there, we can solve anything.
‐‐ Martti Ahtisaari

If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice.
‐‐ Giulio Natta

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.
‐‐ Christiaan Barnard

If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

If the Pope wants to devote his life to fighting climate change, then he can do so in his personal time. But to promote questionable science as Catholic dogma is ridiculous.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.
‐‐ Eric Johnston

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
‐‐ James A. Garfield

If the powers that be really knew how much time I spent thinking about and researching celebrities, they probably wouldn't let me anywhere near the red carpet. But, please promise not to tell them. I'm harmless, I swear.
‐‐ Ross Mathews