Would Be Quotes

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry for her.

Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.

Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

Who are you?”, my answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.

The last five-six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.

There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

To be really successful and win a title with a great club like Liverpool would be 100% one of the greatest things I could ever imagine.

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

I never thought I would be impeached.

It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital.

Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.

The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive.

You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.