Ifs Quotations | Page 7

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it,

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

If you're in love with someone maybe you can show it too much.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place.

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

If there is reincarnation, I would like to be born as Sonu Niigaam.

If you haven't seen me lasso, you haven't lived.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

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

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.