Would Quotes

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?