Would Be Quotes

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.