All Quotes

If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.
‐‐ Steve Hanke

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
‐‐ Bob Ainsworth

If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
‐‐ Mel Brooks

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.
‐‐ Glen Hansard

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.
‐‐ Peter Shilton

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
‐‐ Olivia Munn

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.
‐‐ David K. Shipler

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig

If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.
‐‐ Douglas Leone

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
‐‐ James Lovelock

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.
‐‐ Art Modell

If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
‐‐ Oscar Hijuelos

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.
‐‐ Joe Jamail

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

If you start eating with your mouth open - I can't stand it! I was out to dinner with a girl, and she started chomping on her food. You could see everything she was eating. I was like, 'So when do you want to go home?'
‐‐ Ryan Guzman

If you start free trade with a Communist country, allow them to develop their own businesses, they don't remain communistic. They become a free society when they're able to make money themselves, and we increase trade with them and allow them to really produce products.
‐‐ Robert J. Bentley

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.
‐‐ George Strait

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.
‐‐ Freeman Dyson

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
‐‐ Brian Williams

If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
‐‐ Jake Roberts

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.
‐‐ Marv Levy

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go.
‐‐ Gwen Ifill

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.
‐‐ Ruud van Nistelrooy

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
‐‐ Andy Richter

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.
‐‐ Rob Portman

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.
‐‐ Jane Campion

If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
‐‐ Chuck Jones

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.
‐‐ David Maraniss

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.
‐‐ Melissa Rosenberg

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
‐‐ Drew Houston

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.
‐‐ Lloyd Banks

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.
‐‐ Steve Kanaly

If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui

If you stay present and don't look too far ahead - or in the rearview mirror - everything will work out.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler