Would Be Quotes

Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.

Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

I thought using one device would be simpler.

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

I mean, of course that's a theoretical question, and we don't know what it would be for, and we don't know how many numbers there are. I am against American combat troops being in Syria and Iraq.

It's really hard to get to know me, or any candidate. And I would be asked questions like, well, why are you really running for president?

We'll keep guessing at what it might be that he's hiding. But I think the question is, were Donald Trump ever to get near the White House, what would be those conflicts?

Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.

I call it [Donald's Trump plan] trumped-up trickle-down, because that's exactly what it would be. That is not how we grow the economy.

I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.

I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

I am very lucky to have people who care about me and care about my music. I think it would be irresponsible to not show them as much love back as they show me.

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.