I Quotes
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“If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.”
Source: Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
“If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.”
Source: Maximum Ride, Vol. 3
“If we had done that differently, we wouldn’t be here now. We are both our successes and failures—an interconnected web of moments forever set in time.”
“If we had enough cadaver organs to go around we wouldn't do living donor liver transplants because one is we don't want to put a donor at risk, but the second is that it's a more difficult surgery for the recipient because you're getting a piece of a liver rather than a whole liver. It takes you longer to recover, and it has more complications related to where we sew together the blood vessels and the bile ducts.”
“If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because we haven't got enough documents for the statistical approach to be wholly valid. I know you can calculate levels of probability and so forth, but to establish this really clearly we want a lot more information than we have actually got available. This is surely our major problem that we are still at the very limits at which you can use a technique of this sort. - John Chadwick”
Source: Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
“If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.”
“If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.”
“If we had flown Victoria to New Zealand, she would have been at a funeral home, with private viewings in an atmosphere of stilted, muffled unquiet. I would have had little opportunity to sit with the body and pour out my lament.
The Singaporeans would not have been there with their reassuring ease in the ritual of mourning. My family might have come bristling with disrespect, and rent the air with accusations and blame. Some mourners would have been embarrassed by my tears. They and others would have wanted the whole thing done and dusted quickly. The funeral director or an assistant might well have been the ones dressing the body. I would have not realised the normality of death so
quickly, and more importantly at this point, the absolute necessity to go briefly mad with grief, to cover yourself— metaphorically—in the dowdy burlap of mourning.”
Source: Loss Adjustment
“If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.”
“If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.”
“If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.”
“If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.”
Source: Eclipse
“If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile.”
“If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.”
“If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.”
Source: God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas
“If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.”
“If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.”
“If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!”
“If we had known it would eventually involve the KGB, the French National Police, and the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, we would have left that body in the river and called the Polizei like any normal German citizen; but we were Americans and addicted to solving other people’s problems, so naturally, we got involved.”
Source: Second Fiddle
“If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years.”
“If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?”
“If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.”
“If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.”
“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness to die for it. We had learned what the Negroes long knew. And thus we merely did what the Negroes themselves had done over and over in the past—in Haiti, in the mountains of Jamaica, and in the swamps of Virginia—but could not do out there on the plains of Kansas. We did what we wanted the Negroes to do in Kansas. By slaying those five pro-slavers on the Pottawatomie that night, we placed hundreds, thousands, of other white men in the same position that we along amongst the whites had held for years: for now every white man in Kansas, anti-slaver and pro-slaver alike, had to be ready to die for his cause.”
Source: Cloudsplitter
“If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.”
“If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.”
Source: Middlemarch
“If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.”
“If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.”
“If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.”
Source: Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
Source: Revival God's Way
“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
“If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.”
Source: My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
“If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.”
“If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?”
“If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.”
“If we had no language we'd have nothing.”
“If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.”
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
[Meditations Divine and Moral]”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse
“If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.”
“If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the passion, would we have been able to say, from their actions alone, whether it was the jealous Judas, or the cowardly Peter, who loved Christ.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us.”
“If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.”
Source: Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
“If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet
“If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.”
“If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.”
“If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.”
Source: The Dovekeepers: A Novel
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.”
“If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.”
“If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.”