All Quotes

If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.
‐‐ Nellie McKay

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.
‐‐ Nick Vujicic

If we went to the Tour, I'd have to think, what would our purpose be? Would it be to win the Tour de France? I'm not sure I want that pressure.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
‐‐ Robert Schumann

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
‐‐ Paul Eldridge

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.
‐‐ Dennis Weaver

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
‐‐ Francois Fenelon

If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.
‐‐ George Papandreou

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.
‐‐ Jim Walton

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.
‐‐ Aravind Adiga

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
‐‐ David Ricardo

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
‐‐ Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the jokes would be more hijinks and more like slapstick.
‐‐ Daniel J. Goor

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.
‐‐ Steve Carell

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
‐‐ Larry Page

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
‐‐ Carrie P. Meek

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
‐‐ Carrie P. Meek

If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.
‐‐ Kevin Brady

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.
‐‐ George Papandreou

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
‐‐ Barry Mann

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
‐‐ Howard Gardner

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
‐‐ Edward R. Murrow

If we were to expand Medicaid, for every uninsured person we would cover, we'd kick more than one person out of private insurance or remove their opportunity to get private insurance. We're going to have too many people in the cart rather than pulling the cart.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.
‐‐ Jerry Only

If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
‐‐ Arundhati Roy

If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
‐‐ Franz Boas

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.
‐‐ Charles Kelley

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.
‐‐ George Aiken

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
‐‐ Taylor Dayne

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
‐‐ Dennis Prager

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.
‐‐ Frank B. Kellogg

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
‐‐ Neale Donald Walsch

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.
‐‐ George Nethercutt

If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
‐‐ Paul Watson

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
‐‐ Vinoba Bhave

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.
‐‐ Jay Weatherill

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
‐‐ Jean-Francois Lyotard

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
‐‐ Robert Quillen

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
‐‐ Friedrich August von Hayek

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.
‐‐ Alfred Hermann Fried