If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
‐‐ Emile Zola
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
‐‐ Lars Peter Hansen
If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming flesh living on the earth, dying on the cross for the sins of the world, being buried, and being raised from the dead - yours and mine and everybody else's problems will be solved.
‐‐ Phil Robertson
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
‐‐ Jean Giraudoux
If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
‐‐ Patrick Ness
If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.
‐‐ Susannah McCorkle
If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.
‐‐ Justin Hartley
If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
‐‐ David O. Selznick
If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington
If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki
If you sit in a room and think you're the only one that needs to be loved, then you have a big problem. If you are needy, you have to give the same as you need. If I need love, I have to give love. But that's just a personal thing.
‐‐ Aksel Hennie
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
‐‐ Carol Bartz
If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell
If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.
‐‐ Julia Lipnitskaya
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
‐‐ D. B. Sweeney
If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel
If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.
‐‐ Guy Fieri
If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.
‐‐ Robert Wilson
If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
‐‐ Antony Beevor
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
‐‐ Andy Rooney
If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
‐‐ Ralph Marston
If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
‐‐ Ralph Marston
If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
‐‐ Ralph Marston
If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
‐‐ Ralph Marston
If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.
‐‐ Mario Van Peebles
If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
‐‐ Lane Garrison
If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.
‐‐ Bill Cosby
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.
‐‐ James Altucher
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen
If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.
‐‐ Roland Joffe
If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.
‐‐ Heath Ledger
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
‐‐ Tom Wilson
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.
‐‐ Cathleen Schine
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
‐‐ Alan Rickman
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
‐‐ Jonah Goldberg
If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.
‐‐ Paul Walker
If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
‐‐ Judy Woodruff
If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock
If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.
‐‐ Greg Giraldo
If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
‐‐ Ariel Pink
If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.
‐‐ George Dyson
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
‐‐ Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time wondering what you're going to feel like in year five, you're not going to feel anything in year one.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
‐‐ C. K. Williams
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
‐‐ Morris West
If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.
‐‐ Lela Rose