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“If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.”

Fashion Objectification Male Gaze Women S Fashion Politics Of Fashion

Source: The House of Mirth

“If I were single and had my career, I'd be happy. You have to be happy with what you're doing.”

“If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'”

Ifs Sitting Partners Statistics Salary Sitting Down Dave

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“If I were somebody dealing with chronic pain, I would see it as a challenge to manage my mind; even knowing that the effect of my thoughts is not only affecting my experience, but it is absolutely affecting the state of my health.”

Ifs Mind States Pain Challenges Knowing Effects Manage My Thoughts Chronic Pain

Author:Cheryl Richardson

“If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.”

Ifs Character Beautiful Succeed

Author:Sarah Silverman

“If I were someone named Mr. Ass, I'd be really worried about doing time.”

Ifs Ass Worried Wwe

Author:Vince McMahon

“If I were standing right beside her, I probably would have heard her heart breaking. It would have sounded like the cracking of a wooden bat connecting with a baseball. No, that was too clean of a break. It would have sounded like rain from a powerful thunderstorm pounding on a tin roof. Millions of drops relentlessly pounding away on the surface until it shattered into billions of tiny pieces. Pieces Emily couldn’t put back together by herself.”

Love Tears Heartbreak Rain

Author:Lindsay Paige

Source: Sweetness

“If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce”

People Ifs Thinking Past Half Groups Modern Civilization Standards Starting Advertising Preference Modern Civilization Great Advertising Advertising Business

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.”

Ifs Knows Littles Feelings Term Starting Focused Bother Valleys Boston Short Term Silicon Silicon Valley Starting Now

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Life Should Firsts Stills Philosophy Artist Careers Know How Life Philosophy Perfection Apex

Author:Frederic Chopin

Source: Chopin's Letters

“If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. "Look at that!" "You never do that for me!"”

Ifs Men Trying Looks Wife Relationship Husband Sitting Standing Tables Bathroom Boyfriend Kicking Seducing

Author:Tom Ford

“If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.”

Book Enough

Author:Tess Gerritsen

“If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.”

People Ifs Long Successful Havens Romantic Conviction Romantic Love Long Ago Drunkards

Author:John Dos Passos

“If I were sure I would pass the physicals, I would be on the next space shuttle to Mars or some other planet. I'll leave the calculations and the navigational tasks to you while I bask in your ingenuity. Find me a place in the capsule and watch me outdo Michael Jackson's moonwalk to the music of the spheres.”

Find Me Ingenuity Watch Me

Author:Wole Soyinka

“If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.”

Self Awareness Self Confidence Self Discovery Approval Right And Wrong People Pleasing Approval Seeking

Author:Vironika Tugaleva

“If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.”

People World President Support American President

Author:Tony Benn

“If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.”

Ifs Persons Three Sports Voice Cases Issues Team Media Events Bans Announcing Sporting Events Commissioners

Author:Al Bernstein

“If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.”

Ifs Littles Sports Media Industry Civility Niceness Sprinkles Commissioners

Author:Bob McKenzie

“If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.”

Ifs Way Want Should Mind Doubt Cost Messages Devil Relevance Good Sense

Author:J. I. Packer

“If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.”

Ifs Firsts Would Be Devil Aim Folks Digging

Author:J. I. Packer

“If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.”

Ifs World Should Firsts May War War Of The Worlds Ashamed World War 2

Author:Winston Churchill

Source: The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940

“If I were the last person on earth, some moron would turn left in front of me.”

Ifs Persons Earth Lasts Turns Left Fronts Moron

Author:Louie Anderson

“If I were the Mexican-American father of a young child who was having trouble sleeping because of Donald Trump, or who was being bullied in school because of Trump, or who was becoming ashamed of her own background because of Trump, and Trump somehow slipped away from his security and was walking down a corridor alone to use the men's room at the restaurant where I worked - if I had that chance to confront him, what would I do? Of course if a Mexican or Latino harmed Trump, it would only make things worse. Let John McCain do it. He's a soldier.”

Children School Father Chance Sleep Trouble Security Walking Soldier Ashamed Mexican Latino Bullied Mccain Being Bullied

Author:Francisco Goldman

“If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.”

Ifs Knows Fall Moon Falling Down

Author:D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Rainbow

“If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.”

Ifs States Purpose President United Views United States Democracy Unions Illegal

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.”

People Ifs Way Would Be President Concerned

Author:Max Baucus

“If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?”

Ifs Life Heart Two Able Earth Together Sky Rain Eternity Bleach Two Hearts

Author:Tite Kubo

“If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.”

Ifs Knows Trying Hell Ships Feds Scare Secretary Private Sector Treasury

Author:Warren Buffett

“If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.”

Ifs Believe Said I Can Courses Nuts Powerless Fudge

Author:Camryn Manheim

“If I were thinking straight, I'd take you home right now.”

Ifs Thinking Home Right Now

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.”

Ifs Way Philosophy Would Be Pure Mechanism Scholar

Author:Kenneth Lee Pike

“If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.”

Ifs Writing Years Beautiful Agree Obligation Ties Agreement Your Beautiful

Author:Jules Massenet

“If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.”

Ifs Kind Country Feelings Speak Language Communication Architecture Locals Sensations Republic Foreign Countries Czech Czech Republic

Author:Jimenez Lai

“If I were to ask about my seven months at the Abbey, "Did it work, did I solve my problems?" the simple answer would be, "It did not work, it did not solve my problems." And I know that a year, two years, or even a lifetime as a Trappist monk would not have "worked" either. Because a monastery is not built to solve problems but to praise the Lord in the midst of them.”

Faith Monastery

Author:Henri J.M. Nouwen

“If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!”

Ifs Years Eye Asks Chance Alive Thousand Clothes His Eyes Thousand Years Corpses

Author:Meher Baba

“If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.”

Ifs Persons Moments Happens Asks Example Right Now

Author:James Lipton

“If I were to ask you to open two novels, and compare the circumstances of each protagonist, asking you to chose who is “better,” you may find this ridiculous. You may tell me these characters have been forged in two different worlds, around different people, and they each have their own inherent purposes. They’re traveling different paths, and they’ll traverse their paths at different speeds, as their meant to. Great. So as such, never again compare yourself to another.”

People Philosophy Psychology Comparison Flaws Bad Insecurities

Author:Daniel V Chappell

“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”

Ifs Years Firsts Would Be Thousand Awakening Thousand Years Proven Hypothesis Riemann

Author:David Hilbert

“If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds”

Ifs Would Be Parent Deeds Good Deeds

Author:Abdullah ibn Mubarak

“If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.”

Ifs Would Be Jealous Being Jealous

Author:Thom Yorke

“If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back.”

Ifs Way Glee

Author:Jonathan Groff

“If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?”

Self Path Journey Honest Honesty Future Goals Aspirations Myself Circumvent

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.”

Ifs New York Betray

Author:Moby

“If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.”

Ifs Soul Reason Moments Spirit Responsible Constant Delight Urges Live In The Moment Being Responsible

Author:Brother Lawrence

Source: The Brother Lawrence Collection

“If I were to be super critical, I would say Formula One is too tactical and not strategic enough. And that brings us back to the digital issue: you may have to invest in order to gain - sacrifice some short-term effects in order to make high returns in the future.”

Ifs May Enough Order Term Issues Sacrifice Effects Return Gains Critical Digital Formulas Short Term Strategic Tactical Formula One

Author:Martin Sorrell

“If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Persons Done Government Certain Taken Clear Gains Prepared Terrorism Terrorist Release Officials Hostage Government Officials

Author:Margaret Mead

“If I were to be totally sincere In every desperate attempt to save the world, I forget that there are nights I can't even save myself. I stand at the end of every line of souls I try to lift, as if I'm the least deserving of my own compassion. And maybe I am.”

Healing Empathy Self Awareness Mental Health Vulnerability Existentialism Self Compassion Burnout Inner Conflict Emotional Struggle

Author:Mohamed Yossri

“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”

Ifs Knows Reason Character Lying Answers Sincere Irrational

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.”

Ifs Earth Music Rapture Playing Music Inspirational Music Music Life Music And Life Music Is Life

Author:Sydney Smith

“if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.”

Ifs Want Life Inspirational Should Littles Eye Experience

Author:Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

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