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I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.
I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.
A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.
Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.
I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.
Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?
It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.
If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.
I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.
I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.
would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.
If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.
I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.
I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.
It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.
Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
One thing I had hoped Barack Obama would be is a good cheerleader for the country. He's really brought the opposite in spirit to the country.
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.
She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.
I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'.
It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.
No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.
I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.
Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."
Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.
For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.
You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.
The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
Ladies, you wake up tomorrow and the newspaper reads Scientists have discovered a way for men to experience childbirth. That would be awesome.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.