Ifs Quotations | Page 3

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

If there is no God, there is no hope.

If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

Enjoy the day as if it were your last.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

If you can write it, I can be it.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

If you don't like it, learn to love it!

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.

If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

If I love a song, I make it mine.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?