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If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.

If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

If I wanted to make over my image, I could have given 10,000 interviews in the last 10 years. I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

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.

If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.

If I were to die today, I would have some concern for Tibet. But I know that I have personally done as much as I can to use my existence for others. So I have no regret.

If I work hard and am rewarded, then I haven't really gained anything. It has been a trade: I've put in, and I've gotten back. Only if I am rewarded without having done anything have I actually come out ahead. The best way to gain the most is to do nothing.

I flew over all my masks from Sweden, including my first that I bought when I was 15. That was a little while ago so the masks looked a little different. I painted it myself, but actually the way it looks now is not the look it had when I played. I repainted it after I was done using it.

If life is to have meaning, and if God's will is to be done, all of us have to accept who we are and what we are, give it back to God, and thank Him for the way He made us. What I am is God's gift to me; what I do with it is my gift to Him.

If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.

If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?

I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

I found Jumpy on YouTube. I wrote a movie about a guy with a dog and was like, "What have I done? This is going to be a nightmare. We're a small movie and we're never going to be able to do this.

I found that most people who buy restaurants should never have done it, because they don't understand money.

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

If Party of Five hadnt done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if Time of Your Life doesnt do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.

If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

If sex is dignified it's not being done right.

if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

If something can be done 80% as well by someone else, delegate!