If You Had Quotes

#1. You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God's fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'

Arianna Huffington

#3. If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.

Wayne Thomas Batson

#4. If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

Rhys Ifans

#5. Which would you rather be if you had the choice
divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

L.M. Montgomery

#6. If you had the guts to serve your country like the rest of us, you wouldn't have to work so hard to prove you're crazy.

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

#7. Because if you had your eye to business, you could see places in the sewers where a tosher could hang on in a bubble of air while all around him the world raged.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.

Truman G. Madsen

#9. It was that feeling that she had had walking along beside him that put the notion in her mind. It comes from being alone too much. Things matter that wouldn't if you had a regular life.

Marilynne Robinson

#10. Your misconceptions veil the holy. The Princess is naked
beneath the surface of every form. Your boredom would
vanish if you had more of a clue about the Reality I know.

Rumi

#11. A few weeks ago, if you had told me that being held in David Stark's arms was one of the nicest things I'd ever feel, I wouldn't have laughed at you. I would've been too busy choking on my own horror.

Rachel Hawkins

#12. It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it.

Peter Straub

#13. You always knew when Seve walked in a room even if you had your back to him. He oozed charisma and brought a whole new meaning to aura.

Lee Westwood

#14. If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Henny Youngman

#15. What if you had the chance to go back and tell yourself not to make the mistakes you made? A chance to change everything you think went wrong in your life?" "Well,

Rysa Walker

#16. Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.

John Gofman

#17. invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3

Benjamin Graham

#18. Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.

Benjamin Franklin

#20. It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

Charley Pride

#21. If you had enough despair engulfed with anger, hated and violence in your lifetime ... then take a pledge for PEACE today!

Timothy Pina

#22. When people are going to be taken from you anyway, then it would be better if you had never come to care for them.

Peter Hoeg

#23. I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

Anne Bonny

#24. September felt sure that her shadow and everyone's shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.

Catherynne M Valente

#25. I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.

Conchitina Cruz

#26. What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to?

Lisa See

#27. suppose, if you had to call it something, you could say that that was our civil war. It was too big a thing, too tied up in moral certainties to be called a mutiny, too small and ultimately futile to be called a revolution.

Frank Tayell

#28. For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.

Stefan Edberg

#29. The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls.

Nora Roberts

#30. Old saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You could have avoided ALL this turmoil IF YOU had only played fair.

Michael MacCambridge

#31. I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

Alanis Morissette

#32. Hope could betray you - but if you had no hope, life could actually
surprise you in the best of ways.

Amy Lane

#33. I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

Derek Jacobi

#34. If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge?

Carol S. Dweck

#35. If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

Kid Rock

#36. If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

Jeannette Walls

#37. Mr. Stanley if you had stayed for your entire time in Hue at the mini-motel where they do not ask for passports or visas." "Right. We should have done that. Anything else?" "Yes. How does your lady friend,

Nelson DeMille

#38. If you had to pay separately for just PBS, probably, sadly, not a majority of Americans would do that. So there's many channels, whether it's Discovery Channel or C-SPAN or many, many others, that just aren't viable.

Brian L. Roberts

#39. There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress ... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

Mark Twain

#40. If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.

Jacque Fresco

#41. A lot healthier than getting socked in the stomach. Especially if you had a big breakfast.

James Patterson

#42. You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter ... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.

Philip Guston

#43. Despite all the labels, in most ways I'm really not different from anyone else. I guess if you had to label me, you could say I'm like the girl next door. I'm like the girl a few doors down.

Ellen DeGeneres

#44. You must live every moment of your life in such a way that if you had to live it over and over again till infinity, this would be a good thing.

Tanuja Desai Hidier

#45. Look in the mirror. Half close your eyes. Pretend you are an old lady and ask yourself if you had the chance again to have sex with a stranger would you take it?

Chloe Thurlow

#46. I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

Luke Hemsworth

#47. If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

Diana Vreeland

#48. I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," ... do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Susan B. Anthony

#49. Need was a funny thing; you were never sure if you had it by the tail or the jaw. Being needed forced her to find strength; being needed too much forced her to confront failure.

Michelle Sagara

#50. I left London to migrate to Manchester because at that time it was -- if you had a personality disorder and a good record collection -- the most interesting place to be in the world.

James Maker

#51. If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

Mitch Hedberg

#52. And however it is that you think you still feel about me, I can assure you it's nothing more than a classic case of someone who wants the one thing she can't have. If you had me and got it out of your system, you'd realize the good boy's the one you really want.

Wendy Higgins

#53. It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.

Anthony Fauci

#54. If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

Jodi Picoult

#55. By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jerry Rubin

#56. night. A pretty figure you'd cut if you had your way! And after I've gone and bought you this nice new pail and filled it especial to start on!" Elnora came

Gene Stratton-Porter

#57. If you had known this: I love mercy, 45 not sacrifice, you would not have condemned those on whom is no blame.

Tatian The Assyrian

#58. If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.

Timothy Garton Ash

#59. If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

Richard Donner

#60. Graystripe pushed past Tigerheart and Whitestorm and crouched beside his old friend. "I would have taken your place if you had let me". His voice was hoarse with grief.

Erin Hunter

#61. Family could be like a cushion, Kayla thought. Something soft to protect you from the blows of life. You couldn't stop the blows happening, but if you had people who cared around you then the blows hurt less.

Sarah Morgan

#62. She had been his first love, so maybe, in a way, she had the rightful claim to his heart. Maybe it was like how when you stepped out of the grocery store line to grab bread, no one could really be mad when you returned to your spot. It wasn't cutting if you had been there before.

Brit Bennett

#63. Moreover, unready as you are, you don't need such a great martyr's cross. If you had killed father, I would regret that you rejected your cross. But you're innocent, and such a cross is too much for you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#64. So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Viktor E. Frankl

#65. Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? - Thus Spake Zarathustra

Irvin D. Yalom

#66. If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Tracy Kidder

#67. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#68. If you had to hide me amidst your thoughts, where would you hide me ? Promise me you would put me somewhere beautiful, where i can hide quietly forever ?

Srividya Srinivasan

#69. I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

Michael Winterbottom

#70. If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies. Hawking had, in fact, noted the need for a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.

Antony Flew

#71. How would it make you feel if God showed you what you could have accomplished in life if you had just believed him a little bit more?

Rick Warren

#72. Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

Blaise Pascal

#73. The other members of your party got here a few hours ago, but they weren't sure if you had made it, she says.

Veronica Roth

#74. Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain of, certain to the bone, or if you could be that to someone else.

Tana French

#75. Do you believe you'd finally be completely happy if you had a boyfriend?

Paula Hendricks

#76. When you love yourself you won't need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn't have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.

Shannon L. Alder

#77. You might not have seen a pale, plump woman, who walked the path near the front gates, and if you had seen her, with a second, more careful glance you would have realized that she was only moonlight, mist, and shadow.

Neil Gaiman

#78. Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.

Charlie Jane Anders

#79. One more tip, kids. If you had any real talent, the air would practically have been on fire when you got ready to throw down. But you losers don't have enough magic between you to turn cereal into breakfast.

Jim Butcher

#80. Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

James MacDonald

#81. One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
"Meaning you?"
"What else?

Cassandra Clare

#82. If you had tried to have sex with me Julia, you would still be feeling me inside of you.

K.C. Lynn

#83. If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!

Deepak Chopra

#84. If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#85. I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired particular words, I would say them. I would be anything you want, Jane. Just come back. Please come back.
- Matthew in a letter to Jane.

Charlotte Featherstone

#86. This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

Jerry Stahl

#87. If you had left to go train an hour ago when you first thought of it, you would be done by now.

Andre Bramble

#88. I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.

Jim Rohn

#89. It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

#90. If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

Georgie Fame

#91. He's just going to see a gorgeous woman, because she's exactly the type he goes for. Curvy, smart, sweet, a little bit shy - I hate to tell you, but if you had asked

Tonya Burrows

#92. And if she had not come back to me ... if you had not come ... if I had known for sure that both of you were dead ... Then I would still have lived ... and done what must be done. So will you.

Diana Gabaldon

#93. If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

Joe Green

#94. Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

John Lanchester

#95. This was the pretech experience, that even if you had no enemies the world itself could kill you. And

Vernor Vinge

#96. If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

Ernest Hemingway,

#97. Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?'
I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.'
Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.

C.S. Lewis

#98. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

Ray Dalio

#99. The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

William Feather

#100. How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

Daniel Day-Lewis