All Quotes

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
‐‐ A. R. Ammons

If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.
‐‐ Eugene Cernan

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
‐‐ Andy Summers

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.'
‐‐ Michael Moore

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.
‐‐ Frank Robinson

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
‐‐ Andrew Pyper

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
‐‐ Robin Gibb

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
‐‐ Navjot Singh Sidhu

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
‐‐ Leo Strauss

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
‐‐ Daniel Dennett

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

If the Holy Spirit lives in you, that makes you my brothers and sisters.
‐‐ Robert J. Bentley

If the home is good, all will be good.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
‐‐ John Hope Franklin

If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that.
‐‐ Jerrold Nadler

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
‐‐ Carlton Fisk

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
‐‐ David Mitchell

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
‐‐ Charles Mengel Allen

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.
‐‐ Kim Collins

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
‐‐ Herbert Read

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
‐‐ Thomas Cochrane

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
‐‐ Ezra Pound

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
‐‐ Henryk Sienkiewicz

If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
‐‐ Jose Mujica

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.
‐‐ Sri Chinmoy

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.
‐‐ Lawrence Lessig

If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

If the investor doesn't have enough time and skill to investigate individual stocks or enough money to diversify a portfolio, the right thing to do is to invest in exchange-traded funds that give you exposure to asset classes. It does make sense for the individual investor to think in terms of holding individual asset classes.
‐‐ Harry Markowitz

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

If the Italian is the most passionate lover in the world, it may be because he is the most restrained. Rigid convention denies him all contact with the lovelier girls, who never are free from chaperons.
‐‐ Rudolph Valentino

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
‐‐ Ken Auletta

If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.
‐‐ Roman Sebrle

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner