If you're going to clutter up the world with more novels, you should do a little more than entertain people.
‐‐ Nell Zink
If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
‐‐ Lance Reddick
If you're going to come wanting to work really hard, you're never going to bum me out.
‐‐ Dito Montiel
If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds
If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller
If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner
If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.
‐‐ Emilie Autumn
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
‐‐ Muriel Spark
If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.
‐‐ Mos Def
If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.
‐‐ Christian Camargo
If you're going to do something, do it with style!
‐‐ Jason Statham
If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.
‐‐ Debra Wilson
If you're going to do something to hurt the district I represent, I can't vote for it.
‐‐ Gene Green
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
‐‐ Henny Youngman
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
‐‐ Jayne Mansfield
If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz
If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.
‐‐ Frank Black
If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
‐‐ Dean Kamen
If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.
‐‐ Duff Goldman
If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.
‐‐ Patti Stanger
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
‐‐ John Cusack
If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.
‐‐ Jon Stewart
If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
‐‐ Randy Lerner
If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.
‐‐ Dick Cheney
If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore
If you're going to go to a festival, drink water for six days before you get there.
‐‐ Jillionaire
If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.
‐‐ Timothy Simons
If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.
‐‐ Drew Houston
If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz
If you're going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won't play good anyways.
‐‐ Jason Day
If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
‐‐ Evan Osnos
If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.
‐‐ Joe Cocker
If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.
‐‐ Peter Hammill
If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem
If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.
‐‐ Peter Brimelow
If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.
‐‐ Bob McNair
If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.
‐‐ Alan Moore
If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.
‐‐ Danny DeVito
If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.
‐‐ Chuck Daly
If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!
‐‐ Zig Ziglar
If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.
‐‐ Bobby Orr
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
‐‐ Toni Morrison
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?
‐‐ Richard Powers
If you're going to implement video, do it as well as YouTube does it or don't do it at all.
‐‐ Steve Krug
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
‐‐ Keith Richards
If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.
‐‐ Jim Allchin
If you're going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.
‐‐ Rob James-Collier