Quotes on Ifs

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang - the process, event, or happening that brought the universe into existence - started off the universe in an extraordinarily special, highly ordered state of low entropy.

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to kill when we think it would benefit our country!

Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.