Would Be Quotes

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.

I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, if the South would have won, we'd had it made.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

If Jesus were alive today, He would be a guerrillero.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

The Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.

Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.

If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

The White House is now urging Americans not to 'read too much' into last week's jobs report. In fact, they said it would be best if you didn't read it at all.

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.

If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

I have never even had a sip of alcohol, never have done drugs. The hardest thing I have ever done would be Pepsi.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

If we could throw away the hate and make love last another day, don't give up just for today, life would be so simple