Would Be Quotes

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Start looking around you... and all you see are people the world would be better off without.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing.

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'