Quotes on Ifs

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.

Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the rules of grammar skilfully, you ascend to another level of the beauty of language. When you use grammar you peel back the layers, to see how it is all put together, to see it quite naked, in a way.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.