The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin’ chickens.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn’t for Jupiter.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass’; ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.’
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods’ bodies the same shape as their own.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
We can not love everyone and be loved by everyone. It would be perfection, and nothing is perfect in this world.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
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.
I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
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.
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we’d get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
I’m not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
So many diseases and illnesses have fundamental roots in the lack of clean water. Resolving the clean water crisis would mitigate a lot of problems.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they’d be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
I don’t excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
People say ‘dream big,’ that’s kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.
I never thought I would say this, but I’m desperate to do an action film.
