Best generations & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Age Player Generations Tennis This Generation Tennis Player Best Ever

Author:Samantha Stosur

“A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.”

Ifs Generations Lucky Comfortable Genre Generous Phenomenon Lively

Author:George Saunders

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.”

People Ifs Want Needs Children Suffering Next Interest Natural Doubt Generations Mountain Consequence Appreciate Climbs Surroundings Next Generation

Author:Tamae Watanabe

“People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.”

People Ifs Eye Christian Used Sin Generations Ought Christian Inspirational Ashamed Modesty No Fear Brazen

Book:Day by Day

Source: Day by Day

“I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.”

Ifs Shows Five Comedy Generations Female Asking Comedian Mail Festivals Pitching Amy Stand Up Comedian

Author:Wendy Liebman

“I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.”

Ifs Knows Said Book Whole Stories Generations Development Personal Development Whole Life Practicals Relatable Life Story Combining

Author:Jeff Olson

“In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.”

Ifs Years Looks Doe Stills War Speak Steps Issues Generations Happenings Despite Remarkable Massive Genocide Plates Inability Step Up Analyzing Darfur

Author:Stephen Daldry

“If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.”

Ifs Individual Justice Rights Generations Security Succeed Concepts Capitalism Guarantees Enterprise National Security Sovereignty Guarantees That Free Enterprise Individual Rights

Author:George Nethercutt

“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.”

“We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”

Ifs Faces Next Impossible Generations Century Add Ecology Impossibility Solemn Unthinkable Petra

Book:Nonviolence Speaks to Power

Source: Nonviolence Speaks to Power

“It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.”

Ifs Want Shows Energy Generations What You Want Good Energy Doing What You Want

Author:Amanda Burton

“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.”

“If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.”

Ifs Next Company Generations Models Investment Congress Next Generation Halt Business Models Dictating

Author:Claudia Jones

“If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.”

People Ifs Poor Generations Filled Urban Carpe Diem Mistrust Carpe Cripples Affluent Tow

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.”

“If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.”

Ifs World Two War Stories Fighting Asks Generations War Of The Worlds Future Generation World War Two

Author:Frank Knox

“We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued by future generations as authentic and reliable, ... Errors in history and doctrine, if left uncorrected by us who are conversant with the events, and who are in a position to judge of the truth or falsity of the doctrines, would go to our children as though we had sanctioned and endorsed them.”

Ifs Children Names Left Wish Generations Events Position Judging Our Children Errors Doctrine Future Generation Posterity Sanctions Falsity

Author:Brigham Young

“Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.”

Ifs Order Secret Generations Ready Standards Size Imperfection Garments Couture Haute Couture

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.”

Ifs Problem Motivational Faces Generations Perspective Approach Difficulty Temporary Future Generation Expediency

Book:How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Source: How to See Yourself As You Really Are

“I believe that we are the generation that will rise and fulfill the Great Commission. But if we don't; some generation will. God has decreed it!”

Ifs Believe I Believe Generations Great Commission

Book:A Force in the Earth: The Move of the Holy Spirit in World Evangelization

Source: A Force in the Earth: The Move of the Holy Spirit in World Evangelization

“If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!”

Ifs Men Want Heart Children Doe Action Spirit Wish Generations He Man My Heart Models Our Children Depth Educated Our Time Future Generation Hesitation Stains

Author:Fidel Castro

“The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.”

People Ifs Way School Break Written Generations Tomorrow Break Out Exam School System Enclosure

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.”

Ifs Social Generations Effects Products Experiments Intimacy Relentless My Generation Newness Meaninglessness

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.”

Ifs Wells May Stills Walks Generations Truth Is Shoes Painful Worn Worth It Terrain

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.”

Ifs Men Mean Opinion Generations Salvation Eras Liberation Lazy Laziness Public Opinion Reluctant Pseudo Relics

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.”

Ifs Men Should Given Moral Generations College Ought Intellectual Training Ideals Welfare Effectiveness College Education Scholarly Best Education

Author:M. Carey Thomas

“Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.”

People Ifs Way Real Would Be Beautiful Nice Generations Theater Faults Vampire Being Real Robots Convenient My Generation Movie Theater

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.”

Ifs Looks Happens Wanted Desire Generations Rocks Grew Grew Up Rock And Roll Angst My Generation Heyday

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Wells Shows Young Generations Tvs Creating Musician Filmmaker Idols Embarrassed Tv Shows Contests My Generation Wrong Way

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Everyone with the new generation is about the social network and YouTube, so if you put a proper version of what it should ideally be, I think it's great. All the stuff on YouTube is there as a back-up! I think that's the way it should be.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Social Stuff Generations Versions Youtube New Generation Social Network

Author:Kerry Ellis

“If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.”

People Ifs Generations Figures Capable Passing Passings Who We Are Professors Future Generation Passing On

Author:Khalil Gibran Muhammad

“Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.”

Ifs Knows Talking Generations Program Currents Mail Checkers Current Generation

Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.”

Ifs Thinking Today Lying Sex Differences Lines Generations Degrees England Mistaken Commonplace Victorian Pompeii

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.”

“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

“We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Use Reality Moral Progress Failing Generations Judging Achievement Standards Tests Currents Vigorous Forward Thinking

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.”

“Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Lasts Stuff Generations Finals Stores Something New Last Year Gadgets

Author:William Gibson

“We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.”

Ifs Needs Mind Persons Art Ends Helping Next Generations Majors Crisis Spread Posts Sensible Abstraction Next Generation Clumsy Jargon Pedantic Structuralism

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Generations Who You Are Yesterday Younger Generation Sad Things

Author:Hugh Hefner

“If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.”

Ifs Long I Can Happens Loses Alive Generations Promise Deserve Balls Magazines Vigorous Editorials Playboy I'm Alive

Author:Hugh Hefner

“The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.”

“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Matter Would Be Individual Wish Generations Influence Subjects Opposites Species Bones Accidents Flesh Reconcile Two Opposites External Influences

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Hands Would Be Lost Loses Perfect Behinds Gone Generations Century Limits Gains Perfection Improvement Invention Great Men Reaching Receiving Lag

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.”

Source: The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems

“If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.”

“If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.”

Ifs Trying Believe America Generations Don't Believe Capability Greatest Generation

Author:Josh McDowell

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