If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of both. This strategy is helpful for occasions that involve a public opening of presents, like a bridal or baby shower. You can give something that can be wrapped and opened, along with a card containing a check.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky
If you want to give it a good go, you've got to make some sacrifices and be as dedicated as you can be. Particularly with 'Doctor Who.' It's two or three hours of line-learning a night.
‐‐ Matt Smith
If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.
‐‐ Matt Cartwright
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn
If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
‐‐ Nalini Nadkarni
If you want to go east, don't go west.
‐‐ Ramakrishna
If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.
‐‐ Robert Crippen
If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.
‐‐ Kunal Nayyar
If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
‐‐ Ted Sarandos
If you want to go out for a hunting trip and shoot cans with your son and a .22, that's fine. Do I need an AK-47 with a 100-round magazine if I'm going on a hunting trip? No. It is, to borrow a phrase from Confucius, like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.
‐‐ Armie Hammer
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
‐‐ Ken Thompson
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki
If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right?
‐‐ Henry Rollins
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
‐‐ Aaliyah
If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
‐‐ Elon Musk
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
‐‐ Chuck Yeager
If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.
‐‐ Gina Raimondo
If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
‐‐ Adam Carolla
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
‐‐ Alice Walker
If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.
‐‐ Alexandra Guarnaschelli
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
‐‐ Francis Picabia
If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.
‐‐ Dirk Benedict
If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.
‐‐ Cherry Jones
If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.
‐‐ Sharon Stone
If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
‐‐ Karen Mills
If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
If you want to have traction in China, you have to be in China.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.
‐‐ David Ignatius
If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.
‐‐ Jaime Herrera Beutler
If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
‐‐ Ivar Giaever
If you want to help somebody, make sure you're coming from a place of clarity and complete non-judgment; that way, you can begin to understand their journey, too.
‐‐ Mary Lambert
If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome.
‐‐ Gina Rinehart
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs
If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
‐‐ Epictetus
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson
If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not.
‐‐ Bill Maris
If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist.
‐‐ Zhu Rongji
If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
‐‐ Mohammed Morsi
If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron
If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
‐‐ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
If you want to keep your side dishes warmer than room temperature, consider buying a small steam table for the home, with the Sterno cans underneath.
‐‐ Jose Andres
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
‐‐ Charles Kettering
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas
If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
‐‐ Andy Warhol
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.
‐‐ Rebecca Pidgeon
If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.
‐‐ Nina Easton
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
‐‐ Gary Bettman
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
‐‐ Sam Levenson