Would Be Quotes

Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.

If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason.

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

A lot of the clothes out are very adult-driven and it would be cool if they were a little bit more fun and trendy. Clothes should be fun.

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.

If I'm fortunate enough to play in the NFL, anywhere for anybody would be great. But if I had to pick, it would be the hometown [Atlanta] Falcons because I used to work for them.

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

I think if NATO haven't expanded, we would have a no-man's zone between the E.U. and NATO and Russia, and that would be very dangerous.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

An example would be handy right about now

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"