All Quotes

If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive.
‐‐ Cory Booker

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.
‐‐ Blanche Lincoln

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
‐‐ Tamora Pierce

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.
‐‐ Diane Hendricks

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
‐‐ Richard Perle

If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.
‐‐ Stjepan Hauser

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
‐‐ Ruth Benedict

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
‐‐ Natalie Clifford Barney

If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.
‐‐ Eric Braeden

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
‐‐ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
‐‐ John Churton Collins

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
‐‐ Idi Amin

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
‐‐ Albert Einstein

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
‐‐ Larry McMurtry

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
‐‐ Sri Chinmoy

If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve.
‐‐ John William McCormack

If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.
‐‐ Rachel Perry

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.
‐‐ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.
‐‐ Horst Koehler

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
‐‐ John Jewel

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
‐‐ Dean Acheson

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
‐‐ Sarah Gadon

If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a risk to people in work.
‐‐ George Osborne

If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.
‐‐ George Osborne

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.
‐‐ David Cameron

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
‐‐ Galen Rowell

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
‐‐ Kit Williams

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.
‐‐ Jessie Pavelka

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
‐‐ Seth Godin

If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.
‐‐ Carlton Cuse

If we lived in a world where we had the rule of a judge, rather than the rule of law, you would have seen an absolute sea change, an avulsive change in the law as it was interpreted, applied and rendered by our court.
‐‐ Sri Srinivasan

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
‐‐ Jose Mujica

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
‐‐ Carl Sagan

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
‐‐ Danny Glover