Would Be Quotes

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

I'm a lot happier in people's living rooms weekly than I think I would be if I was really, really relying on a movie career to keep me fulfilled and excited.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.

Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.'

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.

If I was a guy I wouldn't be bossy, I would be strong. If I was a guy I wouldn't be a micro-manager, I would be across the detail.

On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there’s a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

It would be good if you opened your heart to the fullness of time and spirit.

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

What I thought 41 would be at 26 is definitely not what I feel now. I still feel incredibly youthful on the inside, in my brain.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

I have a strong lead so far, and I would be proud to win it because it remains the summit for a skier. I also aim to collect several smaller crystal trophies at Are, especially the GS Cup.