Would Be Quotes

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

President Donald Trump has said, he would be honored to meet Kim Jong-un under the right circumstances. What are those circumstances?

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.

My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

I don't know if I could [do a TV show]. I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It would be really weird and maybe not feature any of The Umbrella Academy characters.

I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.

If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

If I'm nominated [for Grammy] I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.

Honestly I can truly say, it would be, nice, but I don't feel like I got to get a Grammy or something to feel official. I'm cool but it would be nice Grammy Awards!

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

I like to use recognizable songs, but other than that, this song would be perfect.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.