Would Be Quotes - Page 19

If everyone was the same, it would be boring as sh*t

A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

The divide between me and the modern world is growing further because I to a larger degree manage to rid myself of my dependence on the modern world. If the modern world collapsed tomorrow I would be fine, and I see so many others who would not be.

We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, "Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic."

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.