If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
‐‐ Art Buchwald
If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
‐‐ Francesco Guicciardini
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.
‐‐ Francis Spufford
If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
‐‐ Adam Clarke
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
‐‐ John Dryden
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
‐‐ Ben Jonson
If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
‐‐ Paul Merton
If you become a creative writer with the idea that you are going to make a whole lot of money, then maybe this isn't the best choice for you.
‐‐ Tom Drury
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
‐‐ Oscar Hammerstein II
If you become a viral star, that is terrific!
‐‐ Al Walser
If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.
‐‐ Ron White
If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.
‐‐ Ivan Lendl
If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
‐‐ Rich Little
If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
‐‐ Raymond Aubrac
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong
If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy
If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.
‐‐ Eugene Cernan
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
‐‐ Victoria Wood
If you believe, as I do believe, in reincarnation, they say that every time you come back, it's because you have to finish something. I've a funny feeling that my thing in this life is to have one relationship after another.
‐‐ Marie Helvin
If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
‐‐ Adam Clayton
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
‐‐ Anthony Burgess
If you believe in chakras - head and heart - I think singing opens them up, like a wide open door.
‐‐ Cynthia Erivo
If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.
‐‐ Michael Moore
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
‐‐ Tupac Shakur
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
‐‐ Mahalia Jackson
If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg
If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
‐‐ Harry Belafonte
If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking
If you believe in something, you must will it through, because everything gets in the way. Everyone tries to steer the ship off course.
‐‐ Glen A. Larson
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie
If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
‐‐ Kate Bush
If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
‐‐ Connie Sellecca
If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson
If you believe in what you're doing, you should just do it. You'll keep getting better.
‐‐ Riki Lindhome
If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
‐‐ Ray Conniff
If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
‐‐ Linda Ellerbee
If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.
‐‐ Karlie Kloss
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
‐‐ Paul Bryant
If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
‐‐ Miley Cyrus
If you believe in yourself, somebody will find you that believes in you just as much, if not more.
‐‐ Shantel VanSanten
If you believe in yourself, then everything is going to look great on you.
‐‐ Leigh Lezark
If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.
‐‐ George Muller
If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.
‐‐ Jeb Bush
If you believe that America must work for all of us, not just the rich and powerful, if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next President of the United States!
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren