The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
To see that I have this huge platform now, and so many people are listening to what I have to say, it really makes me want to orientate toward something that would really educate people, create awareness, do something more than just show them a cute outfit or what I’m having for lunch.
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.
Few would deny the importance of tackling online hatred or child abuse content. The internet, after all, has become a key weapon for those who disseminate and incite hatred and violence against minorities, and for those who pose a horrifying threat to children.
Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don’t realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.
If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
If you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very good, I’m a loyal person and I would never treat anyone badly – what goes around comes around. But I do go for the bad boy. I haven’t outgrown that.
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
If it weren’t for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness – and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
I would honestly say I’m in the turtle’s race. My journey is a marathon.
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Just remember your thoughts control your whole reality. Everything you think of you can accomplish. Your thoughts are your reality. People realize that and everybody would be up.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
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.
I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
I would encourage you: be informed – knowledge is power.
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father’s funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer’s is concerned, we don’t have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
Everything happens kind of the way it’s supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can’t control it. Looking back, you can’t say, ‘I should’ve… ‘ You didn’t, and had you, the outcome would have been different.
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
If I were to be Miss Universe, I will use my voice to influence the youth and I would raise awareness to certain causes like HIV awareness that is timely and relevant to my country which is the Philippines.
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
