Would Be Quotes

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be...herpes.

It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

I'm sure that if I had a partner and that partner cheated on me, that I would be devastated if we were in a committed, monogamous relationship. So of course, it's a devastating thing.

If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.

Try saying hello to someone who wouldn't expect you to - today would be good.

How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.

It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.

It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

Where do you think you would be now if Jesus would not have saved you when He did.

It would be better for me to die than to live.

Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

It would just be nice if everybody would be nice.

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa.

I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.

If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would be only you and your memories, the choices you've made and the people you've touched.

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

Donald Trump has been nothing but gracious, and a gentleman and a wonderful mentor and boss to me, and to other women. So that's all, that would be my personal choice; not a demand on me.

Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.