Would Be Quotes

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense.

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being.

If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

I am wearing a vest. If I had no arms, it would be a jacket.

If you ask me, I'd like to become the first female president. That would be really cool. The first thing I would do is redecorate the White House, it doesn't look very cozy.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.

I think it would be a good idea.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.