Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
Ann Coulter

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles de Gaulle

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
Donald Trump

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Donald Trump

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
Katharine Hepburn

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine Hepburn

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
Joseph Stalin

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

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.
Carl Sagan

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
Alexander the Great