What Ifs Quotes

We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

I get skinnier if I'm very busy.

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

If I'm working, then I'm working, and my focus is on that.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right?

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.

If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around.

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.

Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?

He will get through this, even if he thinks he won't.

The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.

I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?

I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.

He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. "I do not know who to be without him.

I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

My boyfriend always says that if it weren't for him I'd probably get rid of my apartment and live nowhere, and he's right.

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

My values are non-negotiable. And if it means not getting a role, it means not getting a role.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

If I love a song, I make it mine.

This is a business, and I'll deal with it when it comes. If it comes, it comes.

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?