All Quotes

If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.
‐‐ Patty Murray

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.
‐‐ Malcolm Wallop

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

If the response you finally receive from me is 'thanks but no thanks', then please accept at face value that I would really not be the right investor for you. You've got to trust me on this, and in this case take 'no' for an answer.
‐‐ David S. Rose

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.
‐‐ Claudia Rankine

If the rhythm or beat of the music changes with a live orchestra, you have to think on your feet. If you feel like you are not on your leg, you have to make a decision to make it look as though nothing is going wrong.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.
‐‐ Snoop Dogg

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.
‐‐ Shane McAnally

If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.
‐‐ MyAnna Buring

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.
‐‐ Tim Hardaway

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.
‐‐ Stephen Chbosky

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.
‐‐ John Sentamu

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.
‐‐ Pranab Mukherjee

If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
‐‐ Heinrich Heine

If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
‐‐ Joanna Scott

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.
‐‐ Jim Gilmore

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
‐‐ Ted Turner

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
‐‐ Roger Rosenblatt

If the salesperson is busy, he or she should nod and say 'I'll be with you in a few moments,' so the customer won't mind waiting.
‐‐ Stanley Marcus

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
‐‐ Callie Khouri

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
‐‐ Alexis Korner

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
‐‐ Kenneth L. Pike

If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.
‐‐ Mohamed El-Erian

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving

If the script is good, the cast and director good, I'll go anywhere.
‐‐ Ken Watanabe

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.
‐‐ Nicole Holofcener

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
‐‐ Tom Wilkinson

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'
‐‐ Dick Wolf

If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
‐‐ Esa-Pekka Salonen

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.
‐‐ Patricia Schroeder

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
‐‐ Remy de Gourmont

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
‐‐ Adnan Pachachi

If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency.
‐‐ Bob Corker

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.
‐‐ Michael Spiller

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.
‐‐ Craig Bruce

If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.
‐‐ Adrienne Gusoff

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
‐‐ Eleonora Duse

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.
‐‐ Tim Scott

If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert