Would Be Quotes

I am basically a blazer. If I were a clothing item, I would be a legging and a blazer.

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

My suggestion for a fast style upgrade would be to embrace a pop of color or pattern. Try layering a bright, pullover knit on top of a dress shirt with a subtle or bold pattern.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

I would be comfortable to bat anywhere.

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.

I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask: "How did you decided to be a spice?"

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

For the drivers, a weekend off would be nice, but for the fans, it would not be a very good deal.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night.

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.