Would Be Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Without Yunho, there would be no TVXQ

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.

My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

Life would be boring without gossip.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life.

In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.

If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!