Would Be Quotes

I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

My co-star would be... One of my actual best friends. I am blessed to have so many beautiful talented people around me, I would like them all in my film please!!!

I'm not too afraid of much but I do fear not being able to race some day. I can imagine it would be quite sad.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to that question would be no.

If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did appearing at that [Vladimir] Putin press conference was not worth the price.

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care - so if it wasn't about love, what would be the point?

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.

Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.

I'll always remember taking your hand and telling you that everything would be okay.

The thing that I am most passionate about would be acting.

To do a world tour with my album, that would be really incredible. I love travelling, and I love travelling through my music.

And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something.

It would be horrible to live with someone who didn't like the same things you like.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!