43 Quotes About Ifs-and
- Author Willard Van Orman Quine
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The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.
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- Author Ayn Rand
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The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.
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- Author James Rollins
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Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
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- Author Lou Rawls
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There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.
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- Author Darren Shan
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It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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- Author David O. Selznick
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If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
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- Author Elif Şafak
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That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.
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- Author Gene Sarazen
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Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.
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- Author Jock Sturges
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I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
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