If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
‐‐ Rob Walton
If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
‐‐ Martha Beck
If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.
‐‐ Graham Norton
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
‐‐ Gary Allan
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
‐‐ Ira Glass
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
‐‐ Guido van Rossum
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul
If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke
If you decide you need a secured card, use it to charge small items every month, then pay the balance off in full. If your credit score improves, and the bank doesn't offer to upgrade your card within 12 to 18 months, give them a call. If they refuse, try another lender.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky
If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.
‐‐ Adrienne Bailon
If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
‐‐ Luke Evans
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
‐‐ Russell Banks
If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.
‐‐ Herschel Walker
If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel
If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
‐‐ Russell Smith
If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.
‐‐ Lee Strobel
If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.
‐‐ Robert Forster
If you demand the best, sometimes you get it.
‐‐ Stanley Marcus
If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
‐‐ Alice Walker
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
‐‐ Frederick Pollock
If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.
‐‐ Stacy London
If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein
If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.
‐‐ Richard Rohr
If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.
‐‐ Sri Chinmoy
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew
If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.
‐‐ Katharine McPhee
If you desecrate a white grave, you wind up sitting in prison. But desecrate an Indian grave, and you get a Ph.D.
‐‐ Gerald Vizenor
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
‐‐ Nagarjuna
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
‐‐ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
‐‐ Felix Adler
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
‐‐ Epictetus
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
‐‐ Ramakrishna
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
‐‐ T. S. Eliot
If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.
‐‐ John Yarmuth
If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
‐‐ Curt Flood
If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.
‐‐ Danny Meyer
If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen
If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.
‐‐ Kate Reardon
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld
If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.
‐‐ John Krasinski
If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.
‐‐ Stedman Graham
If you didn't go out every time it was raining, you wouldn't get anything done. So it's a case of making the right clothing choice in terms of waterproof, breathable, warm clothing.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
‐‐ Roger Penrose
If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
‐‐ James Dyson
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
‐‐ James Carville
If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.
‐‐ Tom Conti
If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
‐‐ Karen Black