Said If Quotes

#1. My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.

Tess Gerritsen

#2. Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. "I like to be friendly she said."
"But they are not your friends," said Nabir. "You don't know them."
"Respect first," Nabir would have said if he could have explained, "friendship after.

Rumer Godden

#3. Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Goswami Kriyananda

#4. I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

Michael Marshall Smith

#5. That would be fine," she said "If we're alone, we'll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody's having to butt in, and you can whisper in my ear any crap you can think of.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. In my lifetime I have broken every law that was ever made by both man and God", he said, "If either had made any more, I should very cheerfully have broken them also.

Carl Panzram

#7. All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Warren Zevon

#8. The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship.

Ed Buckner

#9. I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

Ali Meshkini

#11. [After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

Gloria Estefan

#12. Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.

Jacky Fleming

#13. I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

Anthony Horowitz

#14. There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.

Ross Macdonald

#15. We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

Neal Shusterman

#16. Thoreau once said if you see a man approach you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life; it is hard to restrain the impulse in talking with social engineers.

William H. Whyte

#17. To begin with, we must protest against a habit of quoting and paraphrasing at the same time. When a man is discussing what Jesus meant, let him state first of all what He said, not what the man thinks He would have said if he had expressed Himself more clearly.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. What do you need?" Vadderung asked.
"Advice," I said. "If the price is right."
"And what do you think a sufficient price would be?"
"Lucy charges a nickel."
"Ah," Vadderung said. "But Lucy is a psychiatrist. You realize that you've just cast yourself as Charlie Brown."
"Augh," I said.

Jim Butcher

#19. Truth, schmuth," Captain Sham said. If you don't care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the real first letters. Somebody who didn't care about dentists, for instance, could say "Dentists, schmentists.

Lemony Snicket

#20. They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.

Matthew Sweet

#21. Hello there!" Cleasby called. "Is anyone home?" "Bravo, sir," Thorny said. "If it's an ambush, that certainly put them off their game.

Larry Correia

#22. Levi always said if you heard hoofbeats, expect to see horses, not zebras.

Kristan Higgins

#23. I can't protect you from mean people, because they're everywhere, but I would be nice. That much, I can promise."
"Fine," she said. "If I"m pregnant, you can marry me." He folded his harms and contemplated her motionlessly from the dark. Then said,
"Not that nice.

Judith Ivory

#24. She paused a moment.

"Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you say 'no,' I shan't. But, please, Pepino--"

Pepino, however, had been instructed to say 'yes,' and accordingly did so.

E.F. Benson

#25. Stephen Sondheim said : If you know where you're going, you've gone. Move on.

Jennifer Crusie

#26. They said 'if you have a 3D movie, we'll buy it' because they want it. For maybe two weeks I really thought of a silent, black and white 3D movie and I thought it could be great. I imagined it as a very special image, a very new image, but fortunately, I didn't have to do it.

Michel Hazanavicius

#27. I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."

William H. Macy

#28. Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging on it were a woman, then I would believe it.

Louis De Bernieres

#29. I have too much to lose, she said, if I cross that line. Like what? I said. She could not think of anything that day so she said she'd get back to me. Since then I've been thinking what I would lose if I cross my line & I haven't come up with anything either. There's always another line somewhere.

Brian Andreas

#30. You can win the world, she said, if you're willing to lose your soul.

Max Gladstone

#31. About how you survived when You-Know-Who tried to kill you and how he disappeared and everything and how you've still got a lightning scar on your forehead" (his eyes raked Harry's hairline) "and a boy in my dormitory said if I develop the film in the right potion, the pictures'll move.

J.K. Rowling

#32. We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'

Martin Naughton

#33. As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

Paul Di Filippo

#34. Better to be strong,' he [Lolo] said ... 'if you can't be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who's strong. But always better to be strong yourself.

Barack Obama

#35. I bet," Lula said. "If it was me I would have been burning out the motor on my intimate appliances.

Janet Evanovich

#36. I think he's real," the boy said.
"Me, too," the girl agreed.
"Well," the mom said. "If enough folks believe in a thing, I guess it becomes real enough. Don't it?

Brom

#37. There is something in all of us that has always been dead," I said. "If only because we know that eventually we will die. All of us except the smallest children.

Gene Wolfe

#38. Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

Haruki Murakami

#39. I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

Guy De Maupassant

#40. Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

Anthony Edwards

#41. If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.

Chinua Achebe

#42. As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

Sidney Blumenthal

#43. She said, If I'm leaving with a broken heart, you're leaving with a bleeding nose.

Jillian Dodd

#44. This is a terribly dangerous journey" said Bjorn, "and few would have the courage to make it except you and me". His wife said, "if you let Kari down, you had better realise that you will never be allowed into my bed again, and that my kinsmen will force a division of property between us

Anonymous

#45. I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.

Philip K. Dick

#46. All got really plastered after that. Was completely fantastic evening. As Tom said, if Miss Havisham had had some jolly flatmates to take the piss out of her she would never have stayed so long in her wedding dress.

Helen Fielding

#47. A child who's got the habit will start reading under the covers with a flashlight," she said. "If the parents are smart, they'll forbid the child to do this, and thereby encourage her. Otherwise she'll find a peer who also has the habit, and the two of them will keep it a secret between them.

Jonathan Franzen

#48. As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking.

David Levithan

#49. Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I'd be pretty satisfied with my career. It's definitely a barrier for high jumpers.

Derek Drouin

#50. Rothfuss thought about his eccentric friend who wanted nothing of life but to look on, and ... could not have said if this was asking too much or too little.

Hermann Hesse

#51. It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.

Jason Marsden

#52. Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.

Bryn Greenwood

#53. I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come

Steve Jobs

#54. Upon learning of Cardinal Richelieu's death, Pope Urban VIII is alleged to have said, If there is a God, the Cardinal de Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not ... well, he had a successful life.

Henry Kissinger

#55. A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."

Charlie Munger

#56. As the president has said, if the United Nations will not disarm Saddam Hussein, it will be another international organization, a coalition of the willing that will be made up of numerous nations that will disarm Saddam Hussein.

Ari Fleischer

#57. Great American thinker and philosopher Earl Nightingale said, "If you spend one extra hour each day in the study of your chosen field, you'll be a national expert in five years or less." What do you want to be an expert in?

Abby Beale

#58. I gave him a mocking smile. "Come on, Jack. Don't deprive me of the pleasure of watching you donate a DNA sample. I'll even pay for it."
"That offer might interest me," he said, "if it involved anything more exciting than a buccal swab."
-Ella & Jack

Lisa Kleypas

#59. Well," I said. "If we keep running, maybe we'll find a big red button that says PRESS HERE IN CASE OF ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE." "Oh, good," Sig said. "I was afraid you hadn't thought this through either.

Elliott James

#60. As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.

Mara Liasson

#61. CHAP. III. The Master said, 'If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?' CHAP.

Confucius

#62. Fun to think about," Cole said, straining to sound brave. "You get used to it," Jace said. "If you live long enough." "You should become a motivational speaker." Jace grinned.

Brandon Mull

#63. The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done.

Dennis Miller

#64. Uncle said, If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

Lewis Nordan

#65. President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.

Bill Maher

#66. Chang said, "I don't understand how you drink so much coffee." "Law of gravity," Reacher said. "If you tip it up, it comes right out. You can't help but drink it.

Lee Child

#67. Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

Tatyana Ali

#68. Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.

Bob Ross

#69. She said if anyone ever double-crosses you, especially if it's a friend, you have every right to stomp their guts and leave them with little breath.

Kimberly Afe

#70. She said that white towns had simply banded together to rid themselves of the black stronghold in their midst. That is how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can't control it, they destroy it. If

Colson Whitehead

#71. My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

Mia Hamm

#72. As John Newton said, if we are not getting much out of going to God in prayer, we will certainly get nothing out of staying away.

Timothy J. Keller

#73. Don't try to push [fear] away,' he said. 'If you fight it, you make it stronger. You gotta great it politely, like an unwanted cousin. You can't make it leave you alone, but you can do what you have to do, in spite of it.

Lian Tanner

#74. Because you may find yourself in a very bad position, Rohinmey," Dasai said. "If things go wrong, I do not want you to fight. I want you to live.

Kameron Hurley

#75. Lovely high ceilings,' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.

Phoebe Stone

#76. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

Elisabeth Elliot

#77. The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night. It said, If you're this close, you've gotta suck it.

Eric Arvin

#78. As Winston Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I know from hard experience that can be the longest journey down the darkest road. And I have learned that sometime the shortest distance isnt' forward, but up.

Tami Hoag

#79. As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

James Brown

#80. And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.

Sarah J. Maas

#81. Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.

Suzanne Collins

#82. When I first ran for governor, the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.

Rick Scott

#83. It wasn't easy, but like I've always said, if you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to? The food

Seanan McGuire

#84. I'm fine," Kate said. "In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better."
"Bad deduction," Jessie said. "If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now.

Jennifer Crusie

#85. As the physicist John Wheeler said, If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

Ken Robinson

#86. Harris said: If you never try a new thing, how can you tell what it's like? It's men such as you that hamper the world's progress. Think of the man who first tried German sausage!

Jerome K. Jerome

#87. There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Will Rogers

#88. He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

Dennis Rodman

#89. My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

Tracy Morgan

#90. If I program 'ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it," Scile said. "If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it's only sound, and that's not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.

China Mieville

#91. That's what my dad always said. 'If you're very lucky, it'll work out.' I love what it is I do, and I realize how blessed I am. So now it's just about doing the work as good as possible and enjoying the ride.

Brian Dietzen

#92. I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

Mark Warkentin

#93. Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

Thomas Sowell

#94. had come out and said - if not in so many words - that he was innocent of libel and that another truth existed. Precisely because she had not used the word "innocent," his innocence

Stieg Larsson

#95. The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. I

Austin Kleon

#96. After a while he said, If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.

Flannery O'Connor

#97. His memory is compromised,' Lidewij said. 'If only my memory would compromise,' Van Houten responded.

John Green

#98. Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

Rodney Dangerfield

#99. Me father always said if ya can find a lass who's brilliant in the kitchen and in the bed ya best not let her go.

Sara Humphreys

#100. When I thought about it, I said "if you quit now, how you gonna explain to any other kid coming up that if something don't go their way, they're supposed to get up and go hard at it next time?" You can't if you quit.

Roy Jones Jr.