Would Be Quotes

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.

I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I can't think of anything I would do differently in my life. It would be nice to undo some of my mistakes I made over the years, but then I wouldn't have grown professionally or personally.

If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure...Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion.

That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.

Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.