Would Be Quotes

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.

If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price.

In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.

We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

I have people that are affected by what I do, what I say, and that would be the one place where it gets complicated. But being honest and truthful - I just believe that's the best way to be.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

If voting made any difference, it would be illegal.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.

I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.

If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.