Would Be Quotes

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

I just want to be in the moment and enjoy the outdoors and nature. Be able to take advantage of all the things God provided for us. That would be really nice.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

It would be hard to get worse. I had only one direction to go.

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

A [Donald] Trump win might be bad for stocks, but it would be very positive for the dollar and Treasurys.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

Erik ! Erik! I saved your life! Remember!You were sentenced to death! But for me, you would be dead now!

If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be?

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.

In a place like the Guggenheim, I would like to be a representative of arte povera. This would be my ideal.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. [He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]

Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.