All Quotes

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant

If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
‐‐ Hans Jonas

If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
‐‐ Clifford D. Simak

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.
‐‐ Fritz Zwicky

If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone.
‐‐ Sukarno

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
‐‐ Malcolm Turnbull

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
‐‐ Simone Signoret

If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.
‐‐ Sarah Lacy

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?
‐‐ Keith O'Brien

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
‐‐ Tony Campolo

If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'
‐‐ Parvesh Cheena

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.
‐‐ Timothy Olyphant

If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.
‐‐ John Heard

If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
‐‐ Alex Steffen

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
‐‐ Johnny Ball

If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.
‐‐ Sophie McShera

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.
‐‐ John Podesta

If members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way.
‐‐ John Fleming

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
‐‐ Harold H. Greene

If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
‐‐ Saint Basil

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
‐‐ Isaac Barrow

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.
‐‐ John Gerzema

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
‐‐ Linda Ellerbee

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
‐‐ Henry Miller

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
‐‐ Florynce Kennedy

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
‐‐ John Updike

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.
‐‐ Caroline M. Nichols Churchill

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
‐‐ Princess Diana

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
‐‐ Alphonse Karr

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
‐‐ O. Henry

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
‐‐ Ulysses S. Grant

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
‐‐ Maimonides

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.
‐‐ James Stephens

If men want sex they'll find it.
‐‐ Cynthia Payne