Would Be Quotes

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books.

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

I don't know why people would be interested in what I do. Maybe they feel how I feel. Maybe it's because we're all missing something, and I just happen to wear that on my sleeve.

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

I wanted to be a filmmaker, actually, when I was in high school and college. But I just decided it would be more expensive to do, so I sort of decided music would be more fun.

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.

[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.

A few years back, this guy [Barack Obama] would be serving us coffee.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...

You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.