Would Be Quotes

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie.

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.

I do not do my own taxes. It's too many forms. "Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea."I would be in jail.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

If my face was covered, I would be useless.

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me

Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.

Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

I thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.

There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.

Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.

[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.