Would Be Quotes

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing.

Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

No one said it would be easy But no one said it'd be this hard

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

I would prefer to grow with the team inside Nintendo rather than taking anyone from outside. It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started

If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - -it's eerie.

We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring

I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.