Would Be Quotes
I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.
The people who I thought would be the hardest to work with were the easiest, and the people I thought would be the easiest were actually the hardest.
What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.
Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
I would never want to be a trend-spotter, in any field. I just think I would be bad at it. I have very limited range, in terms of the tone of the show, that I'm capable of making.
If the whole country had to have the same conversation that was safe for everybody, it would be a pretty awful place to live. There wouldn't be a conversation.
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.
We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.
For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.
Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.
I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.
There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs?" the conflict would be easy to resolve.
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered. "That would be awesome," Puck said. Sabrina flashed him an angry look. "Awesome in a terrible, heartbreakingly tragic way," Puck continued.
A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.
My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'
I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.
If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.
That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".
I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.