Would Be Quotes

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.

If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.

There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

If there is ever a time that impeachment would be appropriate, this is certainly the time.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Would that everyone might know that I would be already damned if it were not for Mary!

We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.