Would Be Quotes

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

When we met, I never thought in a million years that Will Smith and I would be together.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing. It's something I would be incredibly honored to be a part of.

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

My life is so different than I thought it would be.

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that, it would be wonderful.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

It would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

You would make a very ugly woman" "I would not. I would be stunning

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.