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“Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.”

Ifs Thinking World Real Would Be Morning Magic Tears Get Up Real World Veils Dreary

Author:Victoria Moran

“...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.”

World Problem Would Be Fighting Energy Force Enemy Movement Duty Bounds Congress Jew Destroyed Germany Civilized Acceptable Cried Boycott

Author:Ze'ev Jabotinsky

“In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.”

World Would Be Jobs Actors Ideals Jealous Unemployment Employed Starbucks Ideal World Get Jealous I Get Jealous

Author:Hamish Linklater

“There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.”

Thinking World Want Enough Shows Would Be Turns Millions Couple Singing Beyonce

Author:Billie Piper

“When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.”

World Firsts Ideas Different Real Would Be School Romance Girl Waiting Sleep Novel Sweet Hero High School Decided Moved Driven Real World Valleys Romance Novel Microcosm Sleeping Beauty

Author:Francine Pascal

“It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.”

World Important Would Be Black White Color Easier Clothes Brown Black And White

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.”

Ifs World Way Believe Ends Self Would Be Serving Artificial Self Serving Presumptuous

Author:Sean Parker

“My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.”

People Thinking World Children Whole Seems Would Be Kids Faces Stuff Understanding New York Easier Raises Bunch My Children Your Face

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.”

Ifs World Want Would Be My Own Tree Places In The World Neverland

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.”

People Thinking World Ideas Enough Would Be Moving Fighting Evil Vision Good And Evil Better Place Good Against Evil Good Evil

Author:Pope Francis

“I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!”

World Humans Would Be Running Human Beings Not Sure

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.”

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Author:George Voinovich

“I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.”

People World War Ends Would Be Challenges Wonder Economy Century Approach Meetings War Of The Worlds World War Ii Capitalist World War I 21st Century

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.”

Thinking Knows World Want Problem Would Be Economy Serious Right Now Producers Shock Down The Road World Economy

Author:Daniel Yergin

“Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!”

World Facts Would Be Audience Clock Annoying Alarms Alarm Clocks Annoying Things

Author:Duncan Jones

“If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.”

Ifs World Would Be Space Meditation Conditions Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.”

Ifs Knows World Kind Would Be Understanding Interesting Childhood Scientist Relevant Outside World Inner World Chemist Early Childhood

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.”

World Different Would Be Air Limits Air Travel

Author:Charles C. Mann

“I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.”

Thinking Men World Writing Kind Character Would Be Actors Enjoy Interesting Deals Males Tendencies Really Interesting Interesting Characters Storyline

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.”

Ifs World Children Country Would Be Responsibility Company Dying Determination Investing Very Good Developing Japan Good Business Muster Sense Of Responsibility Xerox

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.”

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Author:C. Vivian Stringer

“Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.”

World Believe Kind Made Would Be Lost Fun Wish Gun Horse Riding Make Believe

Author:Ricky Schroder

“Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.”

World Mind Would Be Boys Five Six Champion Boxing Boxing Champions

Author:Joe Frazier

“I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.”

World I Can Done Would Be House Imagine Clothes Caught Warm Decent Labyrinth Mazes Minotaur

Book:The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.”

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Author:Lynda Barry

“Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.”

“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”

“If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.”

Ifs World Would Be Worthy

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.”

Ifs World Should Important Would Be Asks Shots Important Things Dry Korean Cleaners Dry Cleaners

Author:Billy Eichner

“As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.”

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Author:David Javerbaum

“It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.”

People World Want Trying Ends Bigs Would Be Energy Challenges Company Nice Willing Amount Spending Being Nice Exhausting Get Money Big Challenges

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.”

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Author:John Graves

“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?”

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Author:Tarsem Singh

“In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.”

World Would Be One Thing This World Remains Uncertainty Friendly Sugar Cream Woe Delicious Juice Tomatoes

Author:Laurie Colwin

“I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.”

People Ifs World Wells Would Be Young Found Practice Taught Only Love Love One Another Lovable

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.”

Ifs World Would Be Enjoy Deserve Vietnam Obscurity

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.”

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.”

World Years Said Reason Would Be Able Next Difficult Natural Planets Degrees Years Ago Decades Arguing Global Warming Quarters Equilibrium Variability

Author:James Hansen

“All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.”

Ifs World Would Be Christian Christ Taught Pure

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.”

Ifs World Should Would Be Clear Drink Streams Pet Giver Pulse Temperance

Book:Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. [With engraved plates.]

Source: Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. [With engraved plates.]

“Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.”

Ifs World Feels Would Be Nature Tools Symbols Significance Mathematician Physicist

Book:The nature of the physical world

Source: The nature of the physical world

“The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.”

World May Doe Two Would Be Order Speak Language Remains Two Worlds Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.”

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Book:Essential Muir

Source: Essential Muir

“The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.”

World Would Be Science Religion Blind Dazzle

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.”

World Would Be Values Decision Environment Bird Wings Environmental Supreme Flight Insects Birds In Flight

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.”

World Would Be Prison Cuba Castro Hypocritical

Author:Pitbull

“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”

Ifs World Would Be Politician Fishing Spokes Great Fishing

Author:Will Rogers