There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.
I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
As a young teen, Satan and the idea of some sort of world that you could be in touch with that could empower you was very much the symbol for freedom.
We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don’t need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.
You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage’s sake doesn’t make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
I dream pretty big, but truly had no idea my life could be this awesome. I am the luckiest girl in the world, without question!
When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‘Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.’
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them.
But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn’t take much for this to disappear overnight.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don’t want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I’m building. I am privileged to play golf for a living – look around St Andrews, that’s my office.
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‘then’ and ‘maybe,’ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
From where they stood, they could see the castle.
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who denounces the insipidity and mediocrity that result from democracy’s levelling impulses could not be more acute.
There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.
I didn’t learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of ’em.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her that you will grow into the woman you’ve always wanted to be. You will find love. You will be successful. You will be happy.
Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Apple already had everyone’s billing information from iTunes… you could buy things just by typing in your password… That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.
The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
First and foremost, it’s my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that’s when your positive thoughts work.
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’.
You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.
I’m so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain’t affecting my life at all.
My whole story is straight mythical. It’s tangible, but it’s also what life could be.
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
