And If You Quotes

#1. Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. That was the way he had lived his whole life. To him things were simple. You reached out and took, and if you felt like it, you gave, with the intensity you wanted to give with.

Ronald Everett Capps

#3. And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

John Malkovich

#4. Simple living is about being authentic and living an examined life and if you've thought about the values you want to live by, be confident and stick with them no matter what others around you are doing.

Rhonda Hetzel

#5. I think that ... it's in the past. Everything becomes history if you are patient enough. And if you don't dig everything up again.

Erik Valeur

#6. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Terry Pratchett

#7. You certainly would not ask anyone else to do something so psychotic. And if you did I would be highly offended.

Tarryn Fisher

#8. White folk done took this country. You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it.You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk and if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.

Jeremiah Wright

#9. My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.

Jane Russell

#10. The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

James Gray

#11. So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Art Blakey

#12. Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

Honore De Balzac

#13. I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.

Don Cheadle

#14. In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

Amy Poehler

#15. Wounded
A bruise is tender
but does not last,
it leaves me as
I always was.
But a wound I take
much more to heart,
for a scar will always
leave its mark.
And if you should ask me
which you are,
my answer is -
you are a scar.

Lang Leav

#16. Just remember, I am not going anywhere," he said, still watching her lips. "And if you ever try to hide from me, I will not believe you are dead. I will find you. Count on it.

Diana Pharaoh Francis

#17. Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

Ray Conniff

#18. There's only one good aspect to it," says Joe. "You may get his job. And if you have any luck, maybe you'll fall down the elevator shaft and break your neck too. We'll buy you a nice wreath, I promise you that.

Henry Miller

#19. We used to be close. We used to be like brothers. And if you died ... it would be like a part of my family had died. And I don't think you realize that.

S.C. Stephens

#20. If I'd thought I would regret it," he said calmly, "I never would have made that oath. I knew what becoming a knight would mean. And if you asked me again, the answer would still be the same." He sighed, framing my face with his hands. "My life ... everything I am ... belongs to you.

Julie Kagawa

#21. We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

Aimee Bender

#22. I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.

Chris Robinson

#23. You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.

Constance Wu

#24. I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#25. Be bold to face the battle, if you win then you are lucky and if you loose then you will be wise ...

Adedayo Kinjerry

#26. For the record," I interject, "I don't agree with Lo. I'm not a comic book elitist." Anyone can read comics, and if you don't it's perfectly okay to enjoy the characters in other mediums.

Krista Ritchie

#27. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#28. In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

Penelope Keith

#29. Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.

Matthieu Ricard

#30. It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up
so it's no longer a screw up.

Robert Rodriguez

#31. They say you can wish on the stars, and if you run out of stars, wishing on a rainbow is the next best thing.

Susan Pogorzelski

#32. Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

Mario Batali

#33. I dont care if you have the smallest part to do with my life or the largest, I love everyone I've ever met, and if you don't like me i still respect you as a person rather than hate you for what you believe in.

Shane Phillips

#34. The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

Lauryn Hill

#35. You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.

Dianna Agron

#36. What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

Emily Browning

#37. There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.

Johnny Vegas

#38. If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

Stephen Keshi

#39. We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

Paul Ryan

#40. If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

Dalai Lama

#41. Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.

Anne Michaels

#42. Lock yourself in here and if you hear
anything. Shoot. I don't care if you think God himself is about to waltz through that door, shoot him to
Swiss cheese--he'll survive.

Jamie Lynn Dougherty

#43. What's meant for you will reach you in time, and if you embrace it with your arms wide open it might just stay with you forever and bless you with more happiness than you could ever envision.

Jayde Scott

#44. I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure.

E. M. Forster

#45. Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

Jeff Cooper

#46. Seeing a murder on television ... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

#47. Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you can't get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Tom Seaver

#48. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant

Dorothy Allison

#49. I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed ... that inanimate objects were no less fallible than people. They, too, could be forgetful. And, if you had enough patience, you could catch them by surprise.

Stanislaw Lem

#50. [ ... ] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can't understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you're not really alive at all.

Catherynne M Valente

#51. Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't.

Gerry Harvey

#52. You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

Kary Mullis

#53. Never judge a situation merely with a negative perspective. Look at the positive side too," he added. "And if you do that, you will eventually feel better.

Sara Naveed

#54. There's a dance that happens with you and that's why I really like doing it with stunt men, because they know how to dance generally better than actors do. It is choreography and if you aren't used to doing it things can go wrong.

Channing Tatum

#55. Life just throws you places, and if you wait, if you listen, you can see the blessings.

Jaycee Clark

#56. I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Eminem

#57. The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

Martha Williamson

#58. If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#59. Some Aspergirls are happy alone and start to wonder if there's something wrong with them when society puts pressure on and asks "Aren't you lonely?" It's nobody's business what you do, and if you are happy being alone, you are not flawed, you are lucky.

Rudy Simone

#60. You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.

John Key

#61. Was he he handsome?" she asked with a sly smirk.
"Very. He is still, I think."
"The devil, they say, goes about in finery."
"And if you believe Beelzebub is as cunning as he is attractive, then I think we have found him.

Nancy E. Turner

#62. I would never, ever, ever, ever say I have regretted the 'A-Team,' 'Magnum PI' or 'Murder She Wrote' or any of the others I did - and if you mention a television series, I'm sure I had a hand in it.

David Hemmings

#63. Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Maurice Strong

#64. Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Steve Jobs

#65. But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it's gone. The door isn't there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.

Holly Black

#66. Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!

David Brin

#67. I want to make love to you, and if you don't stop me now, that's exactly what's going to happen.

Rachel Gibson

#68. One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#69. I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

Jay Asher

#70. For a minute, I could pretend that I meant everything to her, because she was certainly starting to mean everything to me. And if you pretend something long enough, it eventually becomes
real. Right?

S.C. Stephens

#71. If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.

Paul Weller

#72. The tighter you try and hold on to something that you are afraid of losing, the more you are pushing it away.Those thoughts are filled with fear, and if you continue to persist, what you fear the most will come upon you.
Fear nothing - just think about what you want. It feels so much better!

Rhonda Byrne

#73. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT ...

Terry Pratchett

#74. Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.

Jay Leno

#75. Life has been full of evil, and if you don't start asking the right questions, the evil is going to be the end of you.

Jessica Sorensen

#76. In life ... everyone hurts over something. But you can't hurt others because you do! Always try to help others and if you can't ... Don't ever hurt them!

Timothy Pina

#77. Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual.

James Cameron

#78. This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you've seen that before, you haven't. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

Robert Kirkman

#79. How to keep the seductive ghost of bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back out and eating your heart raw and (if you're lucky) eliminating your map for good.

David Foster Wallace

#80. You don't know you're going to get a 'No' until you ask, and if you don't ask, you've given yourself the No.

Jack Canfield

#81. And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?

Lauren Oliver

#82. Laughing brings out the good in food. It's good to laugh. If you don't laugh, you're going to magnify. And if you magnify, you're going to die.

Michael Paterniti

#83. If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

Kelli O'Hara

#84. When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character comedy, they haven't learned the characters yet.

Greg Daniels

#85. In families one can't choose one's siblings. Within regions one doesn't choose one's neighbors. And if you are one of the world's leading producers of a critical industrial resource like copper, in the end you can't really choose your customers. China and Zambia will just have to get along.

Howard W. French

#86. If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

Alan Garner

#87. I'm totally twisted. Instead of, "Oh god, I don't have platforms - they won't like me," I was much more, "I'm doing what I'm doing, and if you don't want to buy it, then don't buy, but that's just what I'm gonna do." It gave me strength. It worked for me.

Manolo Blahnik

#88. If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

Emilio Pucci

#89. The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

Quvenzhane Wallis

#90. Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

Deepak Chopra

#91. When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

Melanie Laurent

#92. Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do.

Hannibal Buress

#93. I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#94. Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

Lord Chesterfield

#95. The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Mark Helprin

#96. What is the greatest thing in us is our Spirit, is the Spirit that we have and we should know that we should be proud of it that we have got the Spirit within us. And if you become proud, then you will not do nonsensical things.

Nirmala Srivastava

#97. I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.

Ronnie Coleman

#98. Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.

Sandra Cisneros

#99. I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?

Sherman Alexie

#100. I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

Abi Morgan