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If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.
Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.
I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.
I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.
Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you say " I knoe " tht is trulie wht love is. <3
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.
Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.
If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that.
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
How do you fall into a lion's den, that is my first question there, you think you would be extra carefull around a den of lions.
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.
In heaven I'll be shocked by those who aren't there, those I didn't think would be there but are. And the fact I'm there at all.
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.
In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.
My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.
If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
What I thought 41 would be at 26 is definitely not what I feel now. I still feel incredibly youthful on the inside, in my brain.
...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.
If I'm going to follow a god, why would I want to follow a god of my creation? That would be an alcoholic idiot nitwit jerk god!
England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)
Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.
To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.
There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.