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“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

Ifs Men Should War Ends Country Would Be Enemy He Man Revolution India China Esteem Beaten Englishmen

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.”

Ifs Heart Has Beens Book America Born Views Race Talking Poverty Written Journey Taxes Comfortable Scripts Immigration Immigrants Latino

Author:Richard Benjamin

“If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.”

People Ifs Limits Casts Indian Submit Confined Reservations

Author:George Armstrong Custer

Source: My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians

“If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.”

Ifs Years War Country Individual Terrorist Innocent Foreign Countries

Author:Jesse Ventura

“If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.”

Ifs Artist Cooking Singers Opera Portraits Opera Singers Aria

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.”

Ifs Praying Holy

Author:Mark Hart

Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)

“If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.”

Ifs Men Wife My Wife Stiles

Author:Ryan Stiles

“If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.”

Ifs Should Women Education Growing Ought Prosperity Superiority

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community.”

Ifs Firsts Today Community Levels Steps Too Much Tomorrow Drink Anxiety Terrorism Contemporary Insecurity Invites Weekend First Steps Neighbour Australian

Author:Hugh Mackay

“If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”

Ifs Religion Sound Sentences Bites One Sentence Sound Bites

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If I were asked ‘Is it safe?’ by a person considering working atop the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, my response would be ‘It is a biologically unsafe workplace for sea level adapted humans.”

Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Workplace Summit Unsafe Biologically

Author:Steven Magee

“If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.”

Ifs Courses Prison Latter Execution Capital Punishment

Author:Anton Chekhov

“If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.”

Ifs Men Should Believe May Mean Stills Spiritual Known Truth Is Pursuit Violent Denial Believe In God Hinduism Creeds Relentless Non Violent Hindu Religion Relentless Pursuit Hindu God

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!”

Ifs Spirit Morning Sun Glowing Cherries Morning Sun Cherry Blossom

Author:Motoori Norinaga

“If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.”

Ifs Giving Should Ideas Would Be Heaven Capable Treasure Junk Treasures In Heaven

Author:Sterling W Sill

“If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.”

Ifs Mind Moving Names Lost Levels Focus Player Movement Weakness Shots Aspect Tennis Concentration Reflexes

Author:Ken Rosewall

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

Ifs Should Home Dream House Names Peace Protect Benefits Chiefs Dreamer Shelter Hypocrite Home Home House And Home First Home Dream House Owning A Home

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.”

Ifs Should Father Names Events Library Chiefs

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!”

Ifs Should Ideas Whole Names Stars Space Notion Rounds Doctrine Mathematical One Word Continuity Firmament Corpus

Author:James Joseph Sylvester

Source: 1854-1973

“If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.”

Ifs Should Art Important Beautiful House Answers Design Productions Interior Design

Author:William Morris

“If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us.”

Ifs Thinking Should Names Doors Temptation

Author:Gunter Grass

“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'”

People Ifs Men Today Causes Millions Happened Revolution Forgotten Repeats

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.”

Source: India: What Can it Teach Us?

“If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.”

Ifs Should Book Answers Honestly

Author:James Russell Lowell

“If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.”

Ifs Writing Important Done Language Intimate Satisfying Ignored Sublime

Author:Thomas Lynch

“If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.”

Ifs Should Would Be Careers Missing Deceit Miss Marple

Author:Agatha Christie

Source: Murder in our midst

“If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Moments Today Natural Careers Television Suspects Crossroads Natural History Conveying Up To Date Somewhere Out There

Author:David Attenborough

“If I were being honest with myself, he lit a blaze, not just a blush, but that’s too much reality for me to admit.”

Humor Romance Sexy

Author:S.L. Scott

Source: Naturally, Charlie

“If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.”

Ifs Knows Persons Blind Leading Me Blind Person

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.”

Ifs Blind Blindfolds

Author:Demetri Martin

“If I were bolder I would tell you how your existence turns my solitude into longing, my longing into poetry.”

Love Longing

Author:Atere J.R.

Source: A Secret Silent Fall

“If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.”

Ifs Stills Hard Born Work Business Hard Work Complaining Weekend Born Again

Author:Sak?p Sabanc?

“If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.”

Ifs Would Be Born Generations Skills Members Dancing Singers Dancer Rapper

Author:Yesung

“If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.”

Ifs Men Would Be Tall Stiles

Author:Ryan Stiles

“If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."”

Ifs World Should Looks Might Would Be Spirit Jesus Lord Blessed Saint Kingdoms Characteristics Brides Appearing Advent Tidings Kingdom Come

Author:Richard Baxter

“If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.”

Ifs Should Art Soul Senses Veils Reproduction

Author:Paul Cezanne

“If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.”

Ifs Men Would Be Christian Religious Century Forgotten Repeats Traits Principal Precise 20th Century Pithy

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.”

Ifs Persons Causes Capable Seeking Assistance Assisting

Author:Ameen Rihani

“If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.”

Ifs Knows Balls Harder Connected Yankees Catching New York Yankees Blindfolded

Author:Bill Dickey

“If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.”

Ifs Life Is Accepting Possibility Function Worried Peril

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.”

“If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.”

Ifs Heart Stills Voice Heard My Heart Dust Buried Rejoice Sod

Author:Dalton Trumbo

“If I were dead, I would be the last to know.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Lasts Unconcerned

Author:Paul McCartney

“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”

Ifs Glad

Author:Marcus Sedgwick

Source: Ghosts and Gadgets

“If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.”

Ifs Long Special Security Cost England Treatment Special Treatment

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.”

Ifs Crime Dictator Disrespect

Author:Richard Griffiths

“If I were directing a movie, it would scare me.”

Ifs Scare

Author:Seth Rogen

“If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.”

Ifs Shows Inspiration Struggle Five Identity Cop

Author:Bear McCreary

“If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million different interpretations of the material and people could argue with me. Certainly on Synecdoche, New York we had discussions and arguments, but I felt like I had authority because I'm a writer.”

People Book Different Authority Argument Arguing Discussion Philip

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.”

Ifs I Can Two Choices Twists Two Choices

Author:Jerry Falwell

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