Would Be Quotes

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

It would be good karma.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't think I'd ever leave

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.