All Quotes

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
‐‐ George Crumb

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
‐‐ Murray Gell-Mann

If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.
‐‐ Shakti Gawain

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
‐‐ James Monroe

If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.
‐‐ Roxane Gay

If we look upon fulfilling of assignments as building the kingdom of God and as being an opportunity as well as a privilege and an honor, then assignments and challenges should certainly be given to every member of the quorum.
‐‐ James E. Faust

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
‐‐ Bernard Law Montgomery

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

If we make a difference in Ohio, we can make a difference on a national scale.
‐‐ Gordon Gee

If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are. Want good markets? Change the people.
‐‐ Dave Brat

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.
‐‐ Chris Christie

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
‐‐ LeVar Burton

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
‐‐ Abigail Adams

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
‐‐ Randall Jarrell

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
‐‐ Salvatore J. Cordileone

If we must die, we die defending our rights.
‐‐ Sitting Bull

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
‐‐ Lord Byron

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
‐‐ Franz Grillparzer

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
‐‐ Cesare Beccaria

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
‐‐ J. B. Priestley

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
‐‐ Samuel J. Palmisano

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
‐‐ Oliver Kahn

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
‐‐ Neville Marriner

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.
‐‐ Ben Vereen

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
‐‐ Travis Barker

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
‐‐ David Suzuki

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
‐‐ Alfred Kazin

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
‐‐ Barbara Jordan

If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.
‐‐ Jacques Chirac