Best ifs & lasts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.”

Ifs Stills Lasts Social Century Building Products

Author:Max Levchin

“If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.”

Ifs Years Ideas Lasts Normal Discovery Cancer Versions Genes Oncology

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.”

Ifs Feels Years Wells Real Home Might Lasts Sports Good Times Last Year Having A Good Time

Author:Sterling Marlin

“I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.”

Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Stills I Can Stories Lasts Courses Lines Honest Possibility Finished Rewriting Foolproof

Author:Amy Hempel

“I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.”

Ifs Years Wanted Lasts Guy Wall Series Pushing Cop Bad Guys

Author:William Petersen

“I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, “What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?” Like, everyone collectively decided, “We’re done!” Over time I got more confidence.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Done Lasts Used Decided Wake Up Yesterday What If Last Day Analytics Pinterest

Author:Ben Silbermann

“I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Enough Dream Kids Lasts Sports Player Journey Lucky Tennis Bonus

Author:Samantha Stosur

“America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.”

Ifs Said Matter Hard Lasts America Names Hard Work Drink Coffee Milk Anything Is Possible Where You Come Lattes

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.”

Ifs World Years Has Beens Lasts Middle Ten Built Size East Reputation Desert Middle East San Francisco Vegas Venice Dubai

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.”

People Ifs Giving Seems Action Lasts Beautiful Dies Realizing Enemy Technology Willing Giving Up Models Profit Allies Beautiful Things

Author:Justin Sane

“If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!”

Ifs Love May Two Lasts Love Is Lovers Loyalty Jealous Loyal Fake People Two Lovers

Book:Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France

Source: Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.”

Ifs Knows Book Lasts Turns Deals Written Asking Decades Good Book

Author:Stacy Schiff

“I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.”

Ifs World Want Whole Helping Lasts Fighting Voice Heard Breaths Court Prison International Whole World Ukrainian

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.”

Ifs Years Lasts Film Teach One Thing Pipe

Author:Blair Underwood

“If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'”

People Ifs Want Trying Has Beens Lasts Chance Forever Could Have Been

Author:Billy West

“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.”

Ifs Lasts Car Fronts Lays

Author:George C. Wallace

“In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.”

People Ifs Knows Lasts Culture Figures Villain Captains Figure Skating Bond Movie Tycoons James Bond Movie

Author:Thomas Frank

“Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Body Lasts Night Relationship Honesty Not Sure Considering Last Night Bisexual Gender And Sexuality

Book:Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

“If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.”

Ifs Happens Lasts Night Worst Wake Up Complaining Last Night Headlines Pictures Of Myself

Author:Matt Lucas

“You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show?”

Ifs Knows Shows Seems Lasts Remember Fit Doing You Retrospect

Author:Holly Madison

“Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.”

People Ifs Years Helping Lasts Night Social Security Benefits Debt Farmers Fewer Telephones Social Security Last Night Constituents Subsidies Vermont

Author:Peter Welch

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