All Quotes

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
‐‐ Charlotte Bronte

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
‐‐ Adolf Galland

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
‐‐ Susanne Langer

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
‐‐ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

If wearing the Spanx helps you get looks, and you feel that energy and response, and you're rocking your body with confidence, that's still how you'll feel about yourself when you get home and take the Spanx off... If your attitude improves from the Spanx, wear the Spanx!
‐‐ Lisa Ann Walter

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
‐‐ John Keegan

If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
‐‐ Anne Bradstreet

If what I have to do is share a sandwich to lift someone's spirits, put a smile on their face - the worst thing that happens is I go broke!
‐‐ Jose Andres

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.
‐‐ Paula Creamer

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.
‐‐ Eric Massa

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
‐‐ Lydia Lunch

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
‐‐ Benjamin E. Mays

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
‐‐ Xun Kuang

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
‐‐ Brian Tracy

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.
‐‐ Steve Berry

If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?
‐‐ Taj Mahal

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.
‐‐ Dan Savage

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.
‐‐ Robert Pinsky

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
‐‐ Lawrence G. Lovasik

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
‐‐ Eric Liu

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
‐‐ Kinky Friedman

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.
‐‐ Louis Sullivan

If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
‐‐ Saul Bellow

If women are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the other great world religions, they will always be treated as inferiors in earthly matters as well.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.
‐‐ Richard Attias

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
‐‐ Mary Wollstonecraft

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
‐‐ Adam Carolla

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
‐‐ Valentina Tereshkova

If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
‐‐ Awkwafina

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
‐‐ Aristotle Onassis

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.
‐‐ Chris Evans

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone