Would Be Quotes

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.

If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.

I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!

If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

My ideal trident would be myself alongside Rooney and Messi. They are the players who make me dream - not Cristiano.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Without rain, there would be no life.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

I was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now.