All Quotes

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.
‐‐ Ross Perot

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
‐‐ Anthony Storr

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.
‐‐ Keith Emerson

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
‐‐ Barry Mann

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.
‐‐ Steven Johnson

If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.
‐‐ Nouriel Roubini

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
‐‐ Michael Moore

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
‐‐ Fatos Nano

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.
‐‐ David Lynch

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
‐‐ Christopher Morley

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
‐‐ Nelson A. Miles

If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley

If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.
‐‐ Paul Davies

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a 'Big Bang' 13.8 billion years ago.
‐‐ Martin Rees

If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
‐‐ Carol P. Christ

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
‐‐ Chris Chocola

If we do not act quickly, Jaxport will fall behind competitors on the East Coast - and the economic engine that has driven this community for the past decade will be put in danger.
‐‐ Ander Crenshaw

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
‐‐ Michael Franti

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
‐‐ Ruben Hinojosa

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
‐‐ Abigail Adams

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.
‐‐ Virginia Foxx

If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
‐‐ Lemuel K. Washburn

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
‐‐ Chief Seattle

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
‐‐ Joseph Wood Krutch

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
‐‐ Patrick J. Kennedy

If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.
‐‐ Mario Draghi

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
‐‐ Paul Martin

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
‐‐ Henry W. Kendall

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
‐‐ Morarji Desai

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.
‐‐ Dick Durbin

If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.
‐‐ Dan Webster

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
‐‐ John Edwards

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
‐‐ Charles Buxton

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.
‐‐ Francis Maude

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.
‐‐ Ric Keller

If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.
‐‐ Kit Bond

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
‐‐ Bill Nelson