Would Be Quotes

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.

If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.

Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.