Would Be Quotes - Page 17

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

If there is ever a time that impeachment would be appropriate, this is certainly the time.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant... You will not be able to set up in a pagan or an heretical or a wholly indifferent society the institutions characteristic of economic freedom; you will not be able to curb competition which alone would be sufficient to destroy such freedom, nor pursue permanently and consecutively any one part of the program. The thing must be done as a whole, and it can be done as a whole only by the ambient influence of Catholicism.

If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.