Quotes on Ifs

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.