Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are ‘famous,’ so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you’ll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
I’m not a gay-basher, because gay people buy my records. Why would I be offended by your sexual preference, unless I’m in the closet? If ya like boys, go get all the boys ya want.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Where there’s water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it’s bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility – along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure – would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.
If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
If I wasn’t a singer, I would be a fairy princess.
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
I never thought I’d live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
The public doesn’t know what to believe anymore. We don’t know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of ‘fake news.’ We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It’s half entertainment and half mystery.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
I’m going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She’s thicker.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing… It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day’s end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
Eskimo: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ Priest: ‘No, not if you did not know.’ Eskimo: ‘Then why did you tell me?’
A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
