All Quotes

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
‐‐ Max Stirner

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
‐‐ Anne Sullivan

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

If the Chinese bubble bursts one day, which inevitably will happen - maybe not tomorrow, maybe in three months, maybe in three years - when it happens, it will have devastating consequences for the global economy.
‐‐ Marc Faber

If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
‐‐ Gary Locke

If the Chinese economy can be opened so that currencies are convertible, Chinese tourists can take money and go see the world. Chinese businessmen can go and buy property in the U.S. and France and every place. All of a sudden, it's just going to be a blossoming global economy. I think it's going to be good for everybody.
‐‐ Robert F. Engle

If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
‐‐ Zhang Zhidong

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
‐‐ Robert Mugabe

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.
‐‐ Pope Francis

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
‐‐ Randall Terry

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.
‐‐ Charles Hodge

If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, we must first thoroughly reexamine and learn about each of them, and uphold America's founding documents by testing every political action in light of them.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
‐‐ Sal Albanese

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.
‐‐ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
‐‐ Hansie Cronje

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
‐‐ Francis Crick

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
‐‐ Rachel Maddow

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.
‐‐ Alex Chiu

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
‐‐ Levi Strauss

If the concept of the Enterprise crew meeting the Legion of Super-Heroes doesn't appeal to you, there may be something wrong with you.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.
‐‐ Sidney Buchman

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
‐‐ Iris Chang

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
‐‐ Jefferson Davis

If the constitution goes, I go.
‐‐ Kamisese Mara

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.
‐‐ Dennis Chavez

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.
‐‐ Giorgio Napolitano

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
‐‐ Peter Mandelson

If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are occasionally (and temporarily) thrown together by the random combining of atoms. Such 'Boltzmann brains,' as they're called, are a disturbing consequence of an unlimited universe.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.
‐‐ Margaret Chan

If the country's poorer, it's got less money.
‐‐ George Osborne

If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.
‐‐ John Yoo

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.
‐‐ John Harrison

If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
‐‐ Tanya Tucker

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.
‐‐ Daniel Espinosa

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
‐‐ Barack Obama

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
‐‐ Peter L. Berger

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.
‐‐ John P. Kotter

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
‐‐ Jim Rogers

If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
‐‐ Owain Yeoman

If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I'm writing to you.'
‐‐ Jon Scieszka

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz