All Quotes

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.
‐‐ Sara Harrison

If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
‐‐ Tara Brach

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
‐‐ Tara Brach

If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
‐‐ Tara Brach

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
‐‐ Carlos Santana

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
‐‐ Theodore William Richards

If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit.
‐‐ Said Nursi

If our interests - our legitimate interests, the interests of Russians - have been attacked directly, like they were in South Ossetia, for example, I do not see any other way but to respond in accordance with international law.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
‐‐ Jacques Chirac

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.
‐‐ Sean M. Carroll

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.
‐‐ Richard Rohr

If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.
‐‐ Ken Hill

If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress.
‐‐ Raul Ruiz

If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape.
‐‐ Tim Scott

If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.
‐‐ Chrysippus

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
‐‐ Claus von Stauffenberg

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
‐‐ Jerry Goldsmith

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.
‐‐ Ami Bera

If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.
‐‐ Mark Z. Jacobson

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.
‐‐ Mark Lloyd

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
‐‐ Paul D. Boyer

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
‐‐ Lawrence M. Krauss

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.
‐‐ Nigel Lawson

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
‐‐ Mark Rothko

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
‐‐ Anna Julia Cooper

If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?
‐‐ Morning Star

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
‐‐ Paul Bloom

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
‐‐ Andreas Capellanus

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease or diabetes - and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws - there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases.
‐‐ Gregory Stock

If outsider perspectives made 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Dark Knight' into fantastic franchises, imagine what would happen if you brought in the perspectives of women and people of color.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'
‐‐ Andrew Lansley

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
‐‐ Dan Quisenberry

If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
‐‐ George Santayana

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
‐‐ Lal Bahadur Shastri

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
‐‐ Magnus Scheving

If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.
‐‐ Mike Gordon