All Quotes

If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn't do well, gold will also do fine... but a lot of other things could collapse.
‐‐ Thomas Kaplan

If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
‐‐ Imre Kertesz

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.
‐‐ George William Norris

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
‐‐ Derrick Jensen

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
‐‐ John Burdett

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.
‐‐ Herman Cain

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
‐‐ Andy Grove

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
‐‐ John Updike

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.
‐‐ Matt Lucas

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.
‐‐ George Lopez

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.
‐‐ Robert Crandall

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.
‐‐ Constance Wu

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
‐‐ Tennessee Williams

If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.
‐‐ Graeme Murphy

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.
‐‐ Tom Irwin

If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.
‐‐ Tom Metzger

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
‐‐ David Ricardo

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.
‐‐ Richard Petty

If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.
‐‐ David Cross

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.
‐‐ Kgalema Motlanthe

If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.
‐‐ Tom Mison

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.
‐‐ Al Michaels

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
‐‐ Ben Stein

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
‐‐ Elliot Richardson

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
‐‐ Talcott Parsons

If there are fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies on the table, I won't say no to those. Soy sauce is another one, even though it's awful - it's so high in sodium.
‐‐ Misty May-Treanor

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
‐‐ Mercedes Lackey

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
‐‐ Nina Fedoroff

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
‐‐ George Carey

If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
‐‐ Karen Allen

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
‐‐ Scott Adams

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson