Would Be Quotes

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

I don't like catchphrases either. A current one would be, "Bye, Felicia." It's used so much that we don't even know the origin anymore.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It's modeling - I didn't find the cure for cancer.

I am the youngest of four siblings, and were all so close. I dont know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most!

Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness

I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with - he doesn't deal with members of Congress.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.

The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.

There's nothing too interesting about me, I'm just a dude that draws, I know there's nothing special about me that people would be standing in awe in front of me.

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.