Would Be Quotes

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

I thought I would be a go-kart mechanic - not an F1 driver

Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.

I think it would be unfortunate if people in Saudi Arabia or some parts of the world influenced what we speak about in Denmark. [But] it's a fact of globalization, and we must consider it.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.

This is unbelievable to me. I always wanted to be famous, be the best, but I didn't think it would be like this.

The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.

Work in a place that feels good to you. Select the best of that which is available. The Zen of working is just to do it, not to worry about it. Feel you would be doing it without the money.

Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject.

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

While it is possible to create all your own energy, most people feed off the energy of others. If you could see on multiple planes of attention you would be astonished!

If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled.

Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.

An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.