All Quotes

If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

If the United States has normalized relations with Cuba, why would we treat illegal immigrants from that nation any different than those from other countries? It is time we level the playing field and end the outdated, preferential treatment for Cubans.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967.
‐‐ Al-Waleed bin Talal

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
‐‐ Tommy Franks

If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.
‐‐ Ryan Potter

If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
‐‐ John Shadegg

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
‐‐ Peter MacKay

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
‐‐ Azim Premji

If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.
‐‐ Dennis Cardoza

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

If the universe is friendly, then it is indeed aware of us and works to help us. So there are no 'unfortunate accidents,' and everything that happens is orchestrated in an elaborate and complicated manner to be of benefit to us.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
‐‐ Dean Inge

If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.
‐‐ Neil Turok

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
‐‐ John Boyd Orr

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
‐‐ Nguyen Cao Ky

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.
‐‐ David Harsanyi

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
‐‐ Gustav Klimt

If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.
‐‐ Jeremy Sumpter

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.
‐‐ James Patterson

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
‐‐ Fannie Lou Hamer

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
‐‐ Maimonides

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.
‐‐ Tim Harford

If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.
‐‐ Alexandra Paul

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
‐‐ Jane Harman

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.
‐‐ James MacArthur

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
‐‐ Anna Howard Shaw

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.
‐‐ Floyd Abrams

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
‐‐ Ralph Ellison

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
‐‐ John Hume

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
‐‐ Richard Gere

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
‐‐ James Franco

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
‐‐ Jacques-Louis David

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
‐‐ Ian Hamilton Finlay

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.
‐‐ Steven Sinofsky

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
‐‐ Joe Hill

If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others?
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
‐‐ Mark Twain

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
‐‐ Conor Oberst