Would Be Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.

I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.

A God you understood would be less than yourself.

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.

Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.