All Quotes

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

If there was a blacker color than black, I would wear it.
‐‐ Mariacarla Boscono

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.
‐‐ Darrell Issa

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
‐‐ Diane Cilento

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
‐‐ Jean Nouvel

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
‐‐ Larry Bird

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.
‐‐ Mark Cuban

If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

If there was a way to bring someone back, would you do it, no matter what the consequences might be? I know that for me, my logical mind says, 'Of course not!' But the truth is, when you lose someone who is so close to you, it's as if they are a part of you; there's always one more thing to say, one more moment you wish you'd had.
‐‐ Jennifer McMahon

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.
‐‐ Joe Lando

If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
‐‐ Sandy Koufax

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
‐‐ Alex Lifeson

If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.
‐‐ Jon Secada

If there was any show I could guest star on, I would want to guest star on 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' because I am such a nerd and I love that show. If there was ever an opportunity to be on that, I would snatch it up.
‐‐ Atticus Shaffer

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
‐‐ Eddie Vedder

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
‐‐ Ted Williams

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
‐‐ Dave Van Ronk

If there was ever someone to look up to, it's Tom Hanks.
‐‐ John Krasinski

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
‐‐ Jupiter Hammon

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
‐‐ Ray Manzarek

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
‐‐ Lars Ulrich

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
‐‐ Josh Billings

If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.
‐‐ Susan Downey

If there was no intentional walks, the guy would just walk him anyway, unintentionally intentionally walk him. You see a lot more of that than what meets the eye.
‐‐ George Brett

If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.
‐‐ Kevin Smith

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
‐‐ B. B. King

If there was no Lego in Billund, there will almost be no Billund... Lego is Billund, and Billund is Lego.
‐‐ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
‐‐ Joseph de Maistre

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
‐‐ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.
‐‐ Joe Klein

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.
‐‐ Torrie Wilson

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.
‐‐ Roger Bannister

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.
‐‐ Paul Hoffman

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.
‐‐ Jason Kidd

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
‐‐ Emma Roberts

If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
‐‐ O. J. Simpson

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their faces on the side of bus.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
‐‐ Simon Conway Morris

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.
‐‐ Dennis Ross

If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein