Ifs And Quotes

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. ~ Greg James

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything. ~ A. Lee Martinez

I shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile ~ E. E. Cummings

There are no ifs and buts in life. If they exist in life, then we are living in coincidence. ~ Santosh Kalwar

These people were smiling because they were where they wanted to be. They understood that life is too short for what-ifs and complications. Life, they found, can be as simple as reading the wind. ~ Brad Herzog

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

Ifs and buts stop you from tapping the miraculous powers within you. ~ Haresh Sippy

Once you are no longer afraid, once you are no longer prisoner to the what-ifs and the if-onlys, there's a pocket of calm in the middle of the craziness. As if you can see things as they really are instead of just how you wish them to be, or how they could be, if this place - this life - wasn't so messed up, so contrary. ~ Gina Linko

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. ~ Marcus Buckingham

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects. ~ Ian Botham

I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if ... " and it blossoms into a whole novel. ~ Jodi Picoult

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. ~ Erma Bombeck

Many can only say of Jesus that they hope they love him; they trust they love him; but only a poor and shallow experience will be content to stay here. No one ought to give any rest to his spirit till he feels quite sure about a matter of such vital importance. We ought not to be satisfied with a superficial hope that Jesus loves us, and with a bare trust that we love him. The old saints did not generally speak with "buts," and "ifs," and "hopes," and "trusts," but they spoke positively and plainly. "I know whom I have believed," saith Paul. "I know that my Redeemer liveth," saith Job. Get positive knowledge of your love of Jesus, and be not satisfied till you can speak of your interest in him as a reality, which you have made sure by having received the witness of the Holy Spirit, and his seal upon your soul by faith. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime. ~ Andre Simon

No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision ~ Sally Jessy Raphael

The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white. ~ Alfred Tarski

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

Assign a deadline to your biggest objectives and stick to it so they don't become just another litany of "what ifs" and sad regrets. ~ Carlos Wallace

If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason. ~ Mallory Ortberg

Well, if ifs and nuts were candy and nuts, then we'd all have a Merry Christmas. (Serenity) ~ Kinley MacGregor

In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden. ~ Wendell Berry

Given man's nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and how well we took our stand in its defense during the short period of time when we were potentially a part of the struggle. ~ Benjamin A. Rogge

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

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. ~ James Rollins

The Lawyers Know Too Much

THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much.
They are chums of the books of old John Marshall.
They know it all, what a dead hand wrote,
A stiff dead hand and its knuckles crumbling,
The bones of the fingers a thin white ash.
The lawyers know
a dead man's thoughts too well.

In the heels of the higgling lawyers, Bob,
Too many slippery ifs and buts and howevers,
Too much hereinbefore provided whereas,
Too many doors to go in and out of.

When the lawyers are through
What is there left, Bob?
Can a mouse nibble at it
And find enough to fasten a tooth in?

Why is there always a secret singing
When a lawyer cashes in?
Why does a hearse horse snicker
Hauling a lawyer away?
The work of a bricklayer goes to the blue.
The knack of a mason outlasts a moon.
The hands of a plasterer hold a room together.
The land of a farmer wishes him back again.
Singers of songs and dreamers of plays
Build a house no wind blows over.
The lawyers - tell me why a hearse horse snickers hauling a lawyer's bones. ~ Carl Sandburg

When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is. ~ Josh Linkner

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

Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern of community. ~ Robert Nozick

Every choice in life sets us on a different path and carries its own set of "what ifs" and consequences that we could worry about, but what's the use? Rather than plaguing our thoughts with the unknown, we should focus on and accept only what we do know – and all we know is the path we're currently on. ~ A.J. Darkholme

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. ~ Thomas Nagel

If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere. ~ Bill Mollison

But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs" and "buts"
Cause I love you just as much as I hate your guts ~ Elvis Costello

Dieting is a messy solution full of what ifs and possibilities and so many pitfalls, a thousand of them, and all of them assignable to personal failures and human weakness. ~ Jen Larsen

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home. ~ Hannah Arendt

Death is filled with whys, what-ifs, and so damn much regret that it can swallow your whole fucking world if you let it. ~ Jewel E. Ann

I have to know you'll be happy; have what you want,what you can live with. I want forever from you."
"All right." Shelby lifted her hands to his wrists, holding them a moment before she backed away. "I considered the possibilties," she began. "I thought through all the ifs and the maybes.I didn't like all of them, but the one I hated the most was life without you. You're not going to play Parcheesi without me, MacGregor."
His brow lifted. "I'm not?"
"No." She brushed at her bangs with another unsteady laugh. "Marry me, Alan. I won't agree with all your policies, but I'll try to be tactful in print-some of the time. I won't head any committees, and I'll only go to luncheons if there's no way out, but my own career's an understandable excuse for that. I won't give conventional parties, but I'll give interesting ones If you're willing to take the risk of setting me loose on world politics, who am I to argue?"
He hadn't thought he could love her any more than he already did. He'd been wrong. ~ Nora Roberts

Self-will means believing that you alone have all the answers. Letting go of self-will means becoming willing to hold still, be open, and wait for guidance for yourself. It means learning to let go of fear (all of the "what ifs") and despair (all of the "if onlys") and replacing them with positive thoughts and statements about your life. ~ Robin Norwood

The Bible tells you that real peace is found in resting in the wisdom of the One who holds all of your "what-ifs" and "if-onlys" in his loving hands. Isaiah captures this well with these comforting words: "You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you" (Isa. 26:3). Real, sturdy, lasting peace, peace that doesn't rise and fall with circumstances, isn't to be found in picking apart your life until you have understood all of the components. You will never understand it all because God, for your good and his glory, keeps some of it shrouded in mystery. So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace. ~ Paul David Tripp

You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express. ~ A.J. Ayer

The old man moaned and maundered, murmured, muttered, mumbled odds of this and ends of that, bits and pieces, shreds and edges, full of ifs and whens and theres and thens, amounting in the end and all to six times less than nothing. ~ James Thurber

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine

I wouldn't say it was lucky. We executed the play well. We should have had another one (TD). Obviously, if you do what's right on and off the field, I think the Lord steps in and plays a part in it. Magic happens ~ Austin Collie

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. ~ Cassandra Clare

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas, ~ Gillian Flynn

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice ~ Ayn Rand

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals. ~ David Maister

Yeah, well, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, then we'd never go hungry. (Syn) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of religion will be there to hide it. To cover it up. To persecute and shred, to burn and destroy. They stay in business by keeping us in the Dark Ages. ~ John Dunning

Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the "What ifs" and "If onlys. ~ Justin Young

Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past. ~ Nadia Janice Brown

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up? ~ Susan Hampshire

The number of ifs and what-ifs are infinite, and I keep listing them – trying to convince myself or Dante, or maybe you, that I'm sorry, that life and death are random, that we can't control anything except how we deal with it all now. ~ Ashley Woodfolk

May we not waver to say a blunt "No" when push comes to shove. Once we handle the truth, it must be without "ifs" and "buts." The air ought to be clean and the water clear. Since haggling with transparency is not in the cards, let us step down from the traditional "It Is What It Is" and definitively go for resilience. ("Resilience") ~ Erik Pevernagie

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

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present. ~ Richard Dawkins

She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience. ~ Judi Fennell

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center. ~ Maria Shriver

Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out. ~ Ted Cruz

He was smiling! That was it; her actual sunrise. It lit the candles of answers to every query of her life.
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Having wings is one thing and flying another. Having eyes is one thing and dreaming another. Having a heart is one thing and falling in love, quite another.
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Destiny is the root of all limitations and a dream is the seed for all liberations.
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By the way, is it darkness that gives light an identity or is it the other way round?
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If life is divided into two parts, then one part is definitely about living it and the other, about missing the moments lived.
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How can I comfort anyone with words of hope when I am myself empty of it?
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It might all sound bizarre to you because I am sharing my thoughts for her only today but believe me something happened from the first time I saw her. Something did happen. The air (or what was it?) told me she was mine though I was a little apprehensive to accept the fact then but now, I think I am in love. No, I know I am in love for the first time in my life. (Ritwika was just a crush). It's crazy, I know. It's only been few weeks that I first saw her. I haven't even talked to her till now. But does that really matter?
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What the fuck is it with first love? So many ifs and buts. Damn!
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Seriously I do have something to tell God: It's tough to be God, I know, but mind you it's tougher to be human in this crazy fucking world of yours.
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No one asked me ~ Novoneel Chakraborty

The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain. ~ John O'Callaghan

I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky. ~ Duke Ellington

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

His story is colored by the murder of a brother, the rape of a sister, the betrayal of a friend, the pounding of nails into flesh and bone, and the darkening of the sky. A world of what-ifs and could-have-beens, peopled by has-beens and might-have-beens. It is a world soaked in fear and drenched by the blood of a million martyrs. A world of men burned at the stake and babes slaughtered at their mother's breasts. A dark history with pain oozing into all its hidden corners. At the center of history is a death. Christ's death, the decisive point of history. Christianity is perhaps the most morbid religion of the world. Perpetually meditating upon death with little crosses hung around their necks, Christian disciples sing their way to martyrdom. Anticipating death and calling it gain, Christians are evangelists of the grotesque. The very hope of the Gospel rests directly upon our ability to imagine a world in which suffering serves as the soil from which resurrection springs. ~ Ben Palpant

If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts we'd all have a Merry Christmas. ~ Julia Mills

Mentally, I am in prison. The only thing I am allowed to do is think...think...think...of the 'what if's' and the consequences I have to endure."
~Love is respect ♥~ ~ Charlena E. Jackson

But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over. ~ Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

Sometimes people walk out of your life never to return, and all you have left are bitter memories and what ifs. And though you try to move on and forget them, they become regrets that cut deeper than the sharpest knife, slashing you over and over again. ~ Mia Asher

Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins. ~ Louis De Montfort

Until you destroy your body, you don't learn to appreciate it. Treat the body like a temple because the body is so beautiful. If and when you understand your body then you will respect it. The body is like a bud, until the sun rises it will not bloom, until it blooms it will not be beautiful or give perfume. So respect it, take care of it. ~ Bikram Choudhury

The ifs and buts of history ... form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet. ~ Vikram Seth

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart. ~ Steve Irwin

The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith. ~ Joyce Meyer

If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues. ~ Jerzy Kukuczka

It's not about what you wear, but about how you live your life ~ Oscar De La Renta

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. ~ Russell Brand

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982) ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer. ~ Carine Roitfeld

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize. ~ Berkeley Breathed

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it? ~ Wendell Berry

If you were really busy, you could almost forget about it, but when you stopped moving, it was murder ~ Maggie Stiefvater

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination. ~ Gloria Steinem

No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person. ~ Swami Vivekananda

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. ~ James Russell Lowell

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies. ~ Fredric Jameson

I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space. ~ George Wald

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. ~ Fannie Lou Hamer

O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy. ~ Mansur Al-Hallaj

If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself. ~ Rachel Roy

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet. ~ Mario Benedetti

Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it. ~ Willa Cather

There's one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it's no longer Black Sabbath. ~ Henry Rollins

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive. ~ Greg Gutfeld

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety? ~ Jodi Picoult

If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping. ~ Dane Cook

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down. ~ Lord Chesterfield