All Quotes

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
‐‐ Howard Zinn

If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us.
‐‐ Judy Blume

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
‐‐ Martin Farquhar Tupper

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
‐‐ Francis Quarles

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
‐‐ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
‐‐ Democritus

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
‐‐ Epicurus

If, through death penalty, we can create fears, though it's against my will, we have to do it.
‐‐ Grace Poe

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
‐‐ Epictetus

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
‐‐ Elizabeth I

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.
‐‐ Tony Parker

If Tim Duncan had 'Knicks' on his jersey, he'd be a god. He'd be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he's one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he'd be way more famous.
‐‐ Tony Parker

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
‐‐ Herman Hesse

If 'Titanic' was one of our telenovelas, we would probably have added a pair of dolphins to save Jack at the end. We don't kill the good guy.
‐‐ Emilio Azcarraga Jean

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
‐‐ Rockwell Kent

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.
‐‐ Michael D. Barnes

If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.
‐‐ Leonard Lauder

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
‐‐ Yusuf Hamied

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
‐‐ James Dobson

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
‐‐ Nalini Nadkarni

If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.
‐‐ Gene Roddenberry

If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour... I'm there.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
‐‐ Geoffrey Boycott

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!
‐‐ Andrew Lo

If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
‐‐ Jack Dunphy

If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
‐‐ Alan Gorrie

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.
‐‐ Jimmy Lai

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
‐‐ Mark Foley

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If Turkish or Moroccan boys misbehave here, it's up to us to re-educate them and, when necessary, to punish them.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.
‐‐ George Strait

If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron