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“It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.”

Wells Would Be Fighting Half Mankind Goes On Brave Mutual Coward Cowardice Uneasy One Half Easy Life

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this also must needs be put in motion by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover; seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are put in motion by the first mover; as the staff moves only because it is put in motion by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.”

Ifs Needs Firsts God Hands Would Be Moving Seeing Goes On Infinity Staff

Book:A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica

Source: A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica

“I had this whole hippie idea of how easy raising a baby would be. How he would just eat and sleep and listen to Mozart, and I could just go on with my life the way it was. I was very wrong. It [being a mother] has taught me to be present and to live inside my body rather than in some out-there fantasy world.”

World Way Ideas Whole Body Would Be Mother Easy Sleep Fantasy Taught Baby Goes On Hippie Being A Mother Fantasy Worlds

Author:Chiara Barzini

“After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.”

Thinking Done Seems Would Be Jobs Acting Goes On Shops Copies Clerks Shipping

Author:Wallace Shawn

“If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.”

Ifs Ends Would Be Desire Process Goes On Empty Rate Sake Chiefs Vain Infinity If Then

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.”

People Want Mind May Ideas Done Seems Would Be Values Politics Taken Position Goes On Ought Waste Busy Various Boards Temporary Senators Impress Congressman Great Value

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”

God Would Be Night Order Dies Difficult Christ Knowing Mankind Crime Goes On Guilt Oneself Innocent Innocence Elsewhere Survived Day And Night

Author:Albert Camus

“The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for a Christian anti-defamation league. To some degree, there is such an organization emerging on the horizon, the Catholic League... I have had it on my heart for about a decade - and have even expressed the thought - that a Christian anti-defamation league would be helpful.”

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Author:D. James Kennedy

“Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of one family and one girl, living in that part of the world, and that's what goes on over there. I thought that maybe it would be informative and useful for people to know more about it.”

People Thinking Knows World Stories Would Be Girl Perfect Goes On Informative Indictment

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I just got in music because it was a hobby. I got into clubs for free, got to drink for free and left with the hottest girl from the night. I never dreamed it would be for me to go on this kind of ride at all.”

Kind Would Be Night Girl Left Goes On Drink Music Is Clubs Hobbies Hottest

Author:Shaggy

“While other rich people might be like, "Once I'm rich I'm going to go on a vacation to wherever," but instead they just keep wanting to be more rich. It just seems like it would be fun to do whatever you wanted. If I were really rich I would be flying places, I think.”

People Ifs Thinking Seems Might Would Be Wanted Fun Rich Goes On Flying Vacation Rich People

Author:Tao Lin

“It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.”

Would Be Political Interesting Goes On Hearing Palaces Bothered Not Bothered Buckingham Palace

Author:Pauline Quirke

“The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well; Why change them? 'Chi sta bene, no si mueve,' said the Italian, 'let him who stands well, stand still.' This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.”

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.”

Ifs Would Be Goes On Safari

Author:Isak Dinesen

“I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.”

Ifs Writing I Can Would Be Wanted Song Stage Goes On Lays

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.”

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Author:A. R. Rahman

“I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".”

“A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.”

Ifs Way Book Shows Would Be Virtue Goes On South Musical Creator Parks Cartoon Broadway Offended Charlie Analogies Pretension Mormonism Broadway Musical Charlie Hebdo Cartoon Shows

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.”

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Author:Stef Penney

“I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating.”

Thinking Way Needs Writing Trying Bigs Happens Would Be Worst Goes On Best Way Repeats Formulas Worst Things Suffocating

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.”

“Well, it wasn't like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke - but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.”

Wells Would Be Running Week Stage Goes On Come Up Demon Score Heroin Coke

Author:Iggy Pop

“[Puerto Rico] losing not just taxpayers, but professionals, people who are vital to their communities. I don't think that is good. So undoubtedly, if what we are facing in Puerto Rico in terms of budget and debt goes on, if it continues, it would be a disaster for the island.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.”

Thinking Children Problem Would Be Goes On Assuming Dialogue Internals Only Child

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Let's say I was like, "I'm going to write a book this year," which I'm not. Let's just say that was it. Then it would be for the joy of writing it. It wouldn't be like, "And it's going to be No. 1 and I'm going to get rich and go on a book tour and own a library." I don't know the difference between doing what I normally do and making a resolution. And if it doesn't happen, then I'm going to be miserable.”

Ifs Knows Writing Years Book Happens Would Be Joy Differences Rich Goes On Library Miserable Resolution Get Rich

Author:Jen Kirkman

“With this show [Stand-Up Revolution ], I loved the idea that I would be picking the talent that goes on, not the network. It was me handpicking people who might not have gotten the chance to be on TV. So, I thought it was real cool that I was putting people up there.”

People Ideas Real Shows Might Would Be Chance Talent Tvs Revolution Goes On

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

Source: Joyful Christian

“I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.”

People Real Would Be Age Wanted Guy Fall Goes On Musician Falling In Love Hanging Out Phases Daddy Real Relationship

Author:Olivia Wilde

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