Top 100 If You Were Quotes
#1. If you were able to see us as separate beings, you would see us as approximately one hundred beings.
Esther Hicks
#2. If you weren't scared,
you wouldn't be human,
you wouldn't be brave."
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"If you were fearless,
you wouldn't
need to overcome it.
Bravery means being scared
and going forward
anyway," Fia says.
"That's courage.
Leza Lowitz
#3. A bully doesn't answer you; he may hear but pays no heed; he talks on as if you were of no account, and it gives him the advantage always at the start, though not always
Ursula K. Le Guin
#4. Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter if you were 18-years-old, or a child, or an adult back then. Even if you deny it you won't get rid of this suspicion.
Christian Schwochow
#5. If you were to believe that you would've never have tried anything new; when you don't you will only master failure.
Peter Abbasova
#6. Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men.
Dennis Lehane
#7. If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
William H Gass
#8. Sickness burrowed deep inside you, and even if you were cured, even if you could be cured, you would never forget how it felt to be betrayed by your own body. So when he knocked on doors, carrying donated meals, he did not tell the sick to get well. He just came to sit with them while they weren't.
Brit Bennett
#9. If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say - and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right - but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting.
Brian Schweitzer
#10. Relationship doesn't remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again
Amy Winehouse
#11. If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.
Mort Sahl
#12. If you were to ask me what I couldn't do without, it would be sashimi.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#13. If you were a shadowy, anonymous figure, it made sense to pretend everything had gone according to some diabolical plan. Never mind if it hadn't.
Courtney Milan
#14. Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#15. Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#17. If you were a novel, you'd be an adventure of sadness and happiness and love lost in between.
Courtney Peppernell
#18. If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.
Alice Cooper
#19. So, if you were to divide your school in to subsections of the animal kingdom, or, let's just say into primates ...
Kate Ellison
#20. If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#21. You can try. Not that you'll get anywhere. If you were in love, that would be one thing, but we both know this is pride talking." Audrey patted his forearm. "It's all right. I won't tell anybody about your shameful failure. I'll keep it completely confidential.
Ilona Andrews
#22. If you were a man, you'd go into business
for yourself. I know a fellow who started out last year with just a
canoe. Now he's got more women than you can shake a stick at, if
that's your idea of a good time.
Groucho Marx
#23. What if you were a booty call?" "A what?" He frowned. "You know. A good time," she waggled her brows. "Maybe she only, um ... wanted sex. Have you considered that?
Milly Taiden
#24. You'd be impatient and that's understandable, but if you were making too much noise, I'd find something better for that big sweet mouth to do.
Eve Dangerfield
#25. If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.
Slash
#26. Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#27. There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.
Frank McCourt
#28. If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
#29. If you were Satan's daughter, he'd be very proud but not proud enough since every evil deed you do fails.
Valenciya Lyons
#30. If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
Harland Williams
#31. If you were with me, you wouldn't care where your cell phone was. Soraya:
Vi Keeland
#32. Good Lord, just look at that six pack!" She sighed. "I think you could grate cheese there."
"Fran, if you were with Daniel Craig with no shirt, I think the last thing you would think about would be grating cheese.
Amanda Laneley
#33. Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.
Jacob M. Braude
#34. Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,
Michel Houellebecq
#35. Even if you were casted in Gold, it would not reflect your true value to me
Rick Ferreira
#36. There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
Oscar Wilde
#37. If you are a musician,
sing to one as if you were singing to a million.
If you are a dancer,
dance to one as if you were dancing to a million.
If you are a performer,
perform to one as if you were performing to a million.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. To any kind of sex, if you were honest. I've got a pole, you've got a hole, that's what it all came down to.
Victor J. Banis
#39. And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future? What benefits would that give you? For us, it's also a question of, "Is she or isn't she?" That's really a major part of the movie.
Zal Batmanglij
#40. The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.
Peter Hedges
#41. Three-hour layover in Seattle. If you were flying Alaska Airlines and you wanted to go to hell you had to fly through Seattle to get there.
Dana Stabenow
#42. If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.
Rajneesh
#43. Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts.
Suze Orman
#44. And now I'm here for you, Megan. I am enchanted, as surely as if you were the goddess and I the mortal.
-Owen
Laura Kaye
#45. If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?
Peter James West
#46. My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
Billy Collins
#47. If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently?
Kristen Schaal
#48. Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.
Joseph Kanon
#49. If you were casting the part of the evil scientist who would prove the Caped Crusader's deadliest nemesis, you'd likely glance at the headshot of German-born psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham, with his owl-like glasses and severe Prussian features, and think, "Nah, too on-the-nose.
Glen Weldon
#50. It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being unable to keep it.
Jowita Bydlowska
#51. You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided,
categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of
your child you still could in what he had become.
Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?
Jodi Picoult
#52. Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.
Channing Tatum
#53. If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain
We'd hunt down Love together,
Pluck out his flying-feather,
And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#54. Every time the economy goes south, art grows. If you were an actuary or an accountant you'd consider those years horrid, but if you were an artist, you'd consider them magic.
Marc Spitz
#55. I wonder, skeleton, would you still be alive? Would you be conscious if you were dice, or keys on a piano?" "Always wanted a life in music," Skulduggery mumbled.
Derek Landy
#56. If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.
Charles Kennedy
#57. I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.
Steven Pinker
#58. I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
Umberto Eco
#59. I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.
Charles De Lint
#60. There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
Larry David
#61. I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
Lawrence Welk
#62. If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.
Susan Hill
#63. If you were in paris your food might as well glitter.
Michelle Gable
#64. If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
Lois Lowry
#65. The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested.
E. M. Forster
#66. When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.
Billy Bob Thornton
#67. As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Georges Bizet
#68. I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.
Johnny Weir
#69. She still wasn't convinced. "So, if you were a guy, would you be into me?"
"Hon, if I were a guy, I'd be gay."
"Yeah, me, too.
Darynda Jones
#70. Alex, you have to be in there. I know you. My
heart would not be beating if you were truly gone.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#71. In her view, there were three
options for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If you
were ugly, you became a nun. If you were beautiful and stupid, or
ugly and dishonorable, you became a whore.
Nenia Campbell
#72. My whole thing is, haters are gonna hate, but haters are also going to click on your YouTube video just to watch it, so I don't really care. You helped me break the record. Even if you were watching just to hate on me, and now I hold the record, so I win.
Miley Cyrus
#73. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn't mean that you would be a midget if you were bald.
Lemony Snicket
#74. My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.
Hideo Kojima
#75. And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.
George Hamilton
#76. Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?
Florynce Kennedy
#77. If you were never encouraged to be yourself, you often try to blend in instead of standing out. It's a sense of "if only I was 'this,' then someone would love me.
David Mezzapelle
#78. If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate.
Sarah J. Maas
#79. What good would that ever do me if you were gone from this world, as you say? Not the slightest.
Henrik Ibsen
#80. When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
Jane Fonda
#81. If you were mine, I'd make love to you every chance I got, so whenever we were apart, you'd still feel me inside you.
Shelly Bell
#82. If you were willing to trade him away, even for an hour, then you don't deserve him. I'll keep them both to raise as my own and let that be our judgment on you for breaking and oath with us. (pg. 9)
Holly Black
#83. Try as much as you can to mention death. For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more hope and would ease things for you. And if you were having abundant affluence of living in luxury, then it would make it less luxurious.
Umar
#84. If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?
Isaac Asimov
#85. If you were an animal, what kind would it be?"
"A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.
Aline Templeton
#86. Probably played a lot of World of Warcraft or whatever it was - and that made him forget that if you were going to be a bigoted big-mouth, you'd better be able to back shit up.
J.R. Ward
#87. Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
Salman Rushdie
#88. You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.
If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.
Francesca Lia Block
#89. I don't give a fuck what you're trying to do or what you want. I'd send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.
Walter Mosley
#90. I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
Adam DeVine
#91. If you were smart, you'd probably spend more time stretching, he said & I said, If I were really smart, I'd probably spend more time just sitting in the shade drinking lemonade.
Brian Andreas
#92. Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces.
Bill Maher
#93. You know," he says, peeking inside the bag. "It's okay. Because ham and cheese is my absolute favorite ... and an apple? It's like, the lunch of champions."
I stifle another yawn. "It doesn't get much better than that, right?"
"Only if you were eating with me," he says.
Katie Klein
#94. Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.
Epictetus
#95. If you were looking for a sign from heaven, baby, I'd say they're all around you. Take note.
Willow Aster
#96. You just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?"
"if you were in here you might want that too.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
Ian Hacking
#98. If you were a brand, would you buy yourself or keep shopping?
Dean Del Sesto
#99. Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow.
Neale Donald Walsch
#100. If you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves
Jodi Picoult
