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Ifs Quotes - Page 273

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

"Just A Minute With: John Travolta on music, movies, misses". Interview with Jill Serjeant, www.reuters.com. November 28, 2008.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.175, Hamilton Books

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.138, Penguin

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.70

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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

John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

"Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with Ashley Hoffman, time.com. February 21, 2017.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

John Lennon's statement after meeting Elvis Presley (August 28, 1965) as quoted in Jane Ellen Wayne "The Leading Men of MGM" (p. 386), February 17, 2005.

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

"John Legend: 'I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom'". Interview with Denise Cheong and Charlene Fang, travel.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.

If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

"Ohio Governor Defies G.O.P. With Defense of Social Safety Net" by Trip Gabriel, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2013.

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.

Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.

Two, Ifs
John Heywood (1867). “The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations”, p.53