All Quotes

If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
‐‐ Clarence Day

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
‐‐ Cat Power

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.
‐‐ Tucker Max

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
‐‐ Billie Jean King

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
‐‐ Robert Capa

If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.
‐‐ Eva LaRue

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
‐‐ Arthur Bloch

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
‐‐ Brooks Robinson

If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
‐‐ Nancy Kress

If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years.
‐‐ Alethea Kontis

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
‐‐ Jon Stewart

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.
‐‐ Michael Berryman

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
‐‐ Jonathan Winters

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
‐‐ Pam Brown

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
‐‐ George Whitefield

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
‐‐ Satchel Paige

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt

If your support the community, they will support you.
‐‐ Jerry Greenfield

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
‐‐ Arthur Eddington

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you.
‐‐ Regina King

If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.
‐‐ Phil Robertson

If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
‐‐ Kapil Dev

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?
‐‐ Michael Douglas

If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
‐‐ Billy Idol

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
‐‐ Beau Mirchoff

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
‐‐ Robert Lowell

If youth knew; if age could.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud