Would Be Quotes - Page 15

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

If God isn't giving you money, He is giving you a way to make money All your circumstances are to empower you to increase your sense of wonder in God The more difficult the circumstance, the more brilliant the sense of wonder would be

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business. They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with approximately stable intrinsic value, and those with steadily growing intrinsic value. The preference, always, would be to buy a long-term franchise at a substantial discount from growing intrinsic value.

You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.

If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me.

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.