All Quotes

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.
‐‐ John Roberts

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
‐‐ Tamae Watanabe

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
‐‐ Lance Armstrong

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
‐‐ Sugata Mitra

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
‐‐ Ron Finley

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.
‐‐ Jung Chang

If China can't even given LinkedIn enough breathing room to operate in China, that would be a very unfortunate signal for a government to send its professionals about its priorities.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
‐‐ Dan Glickman

If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

If China wants to spend $10 producing a product and sell it for a buck, who benefits from that? I think we do. I'm the free market guy. I think free markets work.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.
‐‐ Basmah bint Saud

If China were to explode, I'd want to be there in a flash. If there's a big story, I want to be there.
‐‐ Bob Simon

If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?
‐‐ David Augsburger

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
‐‐ J. C. Ryle

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
‐‐ J. C. Ryle

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
‐‐ J. C. Ryle

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
‐‐ Mary Baker Eddy

If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a football player's brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can't fully protect the head from damaging impact.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.
‐‐ Joni Eareckson Tada

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.
‐‐ Gerard Depardieu

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
‐‐ Stuart Symington

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.
‐‐ Peter T. King

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
‐‐ Vin Diesel

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
‐‐ Gary Johnson

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
‐‐ Arthur Holly Compton

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.
‐‐ Nicholas Stern

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.
‐‐ Gordie Howe

If college expectations are not taught at home, teach them in school.
‐‐ Lionel Sosa

If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
‐‐ Arthur Goldberg

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.
‐‐ Matt Roper