Top 100 If This Quotes
#1. If this Jesus is God's answer, what is the question? Paul eventually came to the conclusion that God was answering a question that gets at the core of not simply the Jewish drama, but the human drama, a question that no one was yet asking in quite the same way.
Peter Enns
#2. And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.
Terence Fisher
#4. Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.
Greg Graffin
#5. If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction
Jacques Derrida
#6. I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.
Brenda Perlin
#7. If this is what you believe, you are wrong: Penthesilea
Italo Calvino
#8. When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
Ban Ki-moon
#9. war. But I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable - and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade - he would say, "If this isn't nice, what is?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#10. The message being sent out by a broken window-the perception it invites-is that the owener of this building and the people of the community around it don't care if this window is broken: They have given up, and anarchy reigns here. Do as you will, because nobody cares.
Michael Levine
#11. Because, man, if this city ain't Caleb's mountain, I don't know what is, and those giants out there are just stomping people into the ground.
Richard Price
#12. I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.
Gavin Friday
#13. Costis bowed stiffly. I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.
Megan Whalen Turner
#14. If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
John Milton
#15. If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid.
Bryant McGill
#16. You assimilate into her, like the Ganga assimilates into Yamuna and creates a third self. You won't ever hurt her in such situation. If this is not love, then what is?
Girdhar Joshi
#17. Steve Jobs had been known to ask: What are you passionate about in your life? "If this is just a job to you, it's the wrong place,
Carmine Gallo
#18. There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
Karen Elson
#19. If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.
Auliq Ice
#20. Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?
Christopher Paolini
#21. The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.
John Piper
#22. Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love ...
Lauraine Snelling
#23. As Global Warming raises temparatures, it takes longer to cool pies on window sills, and I wonder if this whole thing was caused by hobos.
Dana Gould
#24. If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.
Dwight L. Moody
#25. If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.
Graham Hancock
#26. [Lloyd George] said that Harding 's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.
David Lloyd George
#27. Thousands of years ago, a Roman poet wrote, "I am a human being, therefore nothing human is foreign to me." I believe it to be true. So if this is possible for one human, it is possible for anyone. The path might be different, but the destination same.
Kamal Ravikant
#28. If this were real life,
Ed would have looked at her neck-
bite, dead, burp, credits.
Ryan Mecum
#29. If this was the afterlife, he thought, it was a lot like the House on the Rock: part diorama, part nightmare.
Neil Gaiman
#30. I've played the song for a lot of people who respond, 'Hmmmm, this is interesting,' but in a way it's more like 'There are two exits in this room, the window and the door. If this song doesn't end soon, I'm going to opt for the window.
Rob Sheffield
#31. May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
Leonard Cohen
#32. Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.
Leo Buscaglia
#33. If this is the end, I will rage toward it. But
Pierce Brown
#34. At birth man is offered only one choice
the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.
Jean-Pierre Melville
#35. I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
George W. Bush
#36. In terms of scale or stature, I believe that if Robert Johnson was reincarnated, he is probably BB King. Maybe it would be worth investigating the appropriate dates to see if this is even a remote possibility.
Eric Clapton
#37. A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?
Venita Ellick
#38. RON: Just to say- I didn't know about much of it so can't take responsibility- and I'm pretty sure my kids had nothing to do with it- but if this lot are standing up here then so am I.
J.K. Rowling
#39. If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unremembered seasons?
Kahlil Gibran
#40. Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public.
Ayn Rand
#41. I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.
Lauren Oliver
#42. If this ever goes anywhere, it will be because it's right: right time, right intentions, right everything.
Steph Campbell
#43. When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the 'foremost' religion. If they do not remain in unison, you should maintain the intent of 'I want to keep them in unison'; then some day it will come into fruition if this resolve is there.
Dada Bhagwan
#44. I wonder if this is the way it will be next year if I come to New York, or wherever I go - me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him. I wonder if he'll come with me, or if our built-in ending is high school.
Jennifer Niven
#45. Sorry if this little war's inconvenienced you in any way," Indris drawled. "I'll try to schedule the next one with you in mind
Mark T. Barnes
#46. What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
#47. Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.
Pieter Zeeman
#48. If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.
Dean Martin
#49. A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.
Jeremy Bolt
#50. If this is foolish, I don't want to be wise.
Cynthia Hand
#51. You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
Alan Paton
#52. I trust that I raised a strong enough woman to know who's worthy of her and who isn't. If this guy is good enough for you, and he's the one who has you floating around on cloud nine and giving you back your spark, you can be damn sure he's good enough for me.
Cherrie Lynn
#53. A girl's got to use what she's given and I'm not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don't say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It's meant to make guys think: 'I don't know if this is sexy or just weird.
Lady Gaga
#54. Sitting next to her, Amy was wide-eyed, mesmerized at the sight of Jack heading over in all his seemingly pissed-off-once-again glory. I changed my mind, Cam. If this was all a big setup and he's coming over to strip for me, I think I can handle it. I definitely can handle it.
Julie James
#55. If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.
Gabrielle Zevin
#56. If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.
Nalini Singh
#57. If this is true, then neither the past nor the present is normative. It is the canon of Scripture that renders both relative and open to correction.
Michael S. Horton
#58. The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
Roger Zelazny
#59. As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.
Doc Rivers
#61. We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#62. I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.
Robert A. Heinlein
#63. The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.
Dalai Lama
#64. Watch the speech. Really, watch: if this man gets his party's nomination, he's going to be the next president. By a landslide. And he is going to transform this country. If I were a Republican, I'd be very, very afraid. Oh wait, I am a Republican.
Rod Dreher
#65. If this is about sleeping on the floor, I'll do it," I said. "Because I don't mind."
"No, but do you want to take a picture of my nest? It's very romantical.
Catherine Clark
#66. This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin.
Becky Adams
#67. I smile, bigger than I'm sure I ever have before, and his lips are on mine, and if this isn't the best kind of chemistry, I don't know what is.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
#68. If this really were your last day, you'd want to spend it with someone, or doing something, you love. Don't ask permission. Don't wait until next week. Just go out there and get it.
Linda Gray
#69. Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
Alan Turing
#70. if this was what love was, then I didn't know how anyone could bear the weight of it.
Sierra Simone
#71. I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction really is irreversible; species that go extinct are lost forever. This is not like Jurassic Park. We can't bring them back.
Stuart L. Pimm
#72. Sam stop yelling at her!" her mother yelled.
"If this were in Japsnese," said Danny, "it could be an anime.
Kelly Creagh
#73. If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
Voltaire
#74. I cannot understand those so-called 'normal' people who believe that a man should love only a woman, and a woman love only a man. If this were so, then it disregards completely the spirit, the personality, and the mind, and stresses the importance of the physical body.
Sarah Prager
#76. I wondered if this was how it felt to sell your soul to the devil. I bet there were awesome cookies in hell, too.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#77. When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey
#78. Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
Terence McKenna
#79. how do you identify wasteful transaction costs or coordination activities? I believe that you ask yourself, "If this activity is truly value-adding, would we do more of it?" When
David J. Anderson
#80. Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Ben Stein
#81. The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'
N. T. Wright
#83. Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third - ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] - may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick Henry
#84. If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?
Ernest Cline
#85. He was the most complicated beautiful mess I'd ever seen and if this is what you feel, when you've met someone that is about to change your entire world; than I dare not hide myself away from it.
Nikki Rowe
#86. In his last days on this earth, he'd wanted to know if this was all there was.
Julia London
#87. If this is the United States, mail me home.
Junot Diaz
#88. If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
Casey Stengel
#89. You may be amazed that you are still unique and beautiful as your natural self. Only you can decide if this style is for you.
Monica Millner
#90. The most important possession of a country is its population. If this is maintained in health and vigour everything else will follow; if this is allowed to decline nothing, not even great riches, can save the country from eventual ruin.
Albert Howard
#91. To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#92. The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn't have been this way. We didn't impose it on the Universe. That's the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.
Carl Sagan
#93. I have been told that this kind of unraveling of nerves is natural, that It'll be around for a while. But if this is meant as consolation, it brings no cheer.
Seth Haines
#94. If I'd had the strength, I would have leaped on him and ripped him apart. "You're a disgusting bastard."
"I'll have to ask Tamlin if this kind of flattery won his heart.
Sarah J. Maas
#95. The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
Hamid Karzai
#96. If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now.
Kiera Cass
#97. If this is the ride of my life, I want a refund.
Wendy Mass
#98. If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#99. I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.
Jennifer Lawrence
#100. It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.'
Tina Fey
