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The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.
I think it would be worse to get mauled by a dancing bear than just a regular bear because you can't totally blame the dancing bear.
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting.
It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.
How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
I am everything and I am nothing. I am just kidding; I am not everything and nothing. That would be ridiculous. I am just everything.
I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.
I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large.
So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give a lot of consideration to.
Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.
It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.
Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.
If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.
I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.
I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.
I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.
It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.