Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Shan

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

Aidan Chambers

And trust dies from ifs and buts

John Powell

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

David O. Selznick

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

Joan Didion

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

Ayn Rand

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.

Erma Bombeck

Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.

Kajol

I'm not a what-if and could-have person. I'm happy with my decisions.

Greg James

I just have to deal with it [injuries] if and when problems happen. It's obviously a concern and I've been very careful with my training, making sure I warm up and warm down before everything and not pushing myself too stupidly.

Jim Nussle

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Lou Rawls

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

Lionel Messi

You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough

Joyce Meyer

Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

Julia Quinn

Gregory,” she said, “you cannot leave me here. What if someone finds you and removes you from the house? Who will know I am here? And what if…and what if…and then what if…” He smiled, enjoying her officiousness too much to actually listen to her words. She was definitely herself again. “When this is all over,” he said, “I shall bring you a sandwich.” That stopped her short. “A sandwich? A sandwich?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Marcus Buckingham

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

James Rollins

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Terry Goodkind

But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

Tom Clancy

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

Steve Martin

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

Thomas Nagel

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.