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"I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system."
"While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read."
"[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody."
"The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?"
"Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."
"It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand."
"(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony.""
"The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all."
"Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong."
"Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone."
"Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string."
"All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony."
"I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard."
"When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected."
"I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together."
"My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better."
"I wish there would be more movies about scientists."
"Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters."
