In this post, you will find great Would Quotes from famous people, such as Ashley Bell, Saint Augustine, Confucius, Arthur Ashe, W. H. Auden. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it’s just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I’ve done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she’s 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man‘s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Girls and boys would call me the Pillsbury Doughboy because I was overweight and pasty.
If oil prices will go too high, it will slow down the world economy and would trigger a global recession.
When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in ‘guang-shi,’ face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There’s no trust system in China.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
Without gambling, I would not exist.
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
People say ‘dream big,’ that’s kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.
I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I’ve accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it.
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
We shot ‘Breaking Bad‘ on film; we capture ‘Better Call Saul’ digitally. In the shooting of ‘Breaking Bad,’ we would have this steady, handheld, cinema verite sort of look, so we purposely went the opposite way with ‘Better Call Saul’ – locked in the cameras and made the movements smoother and more mechanical.
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life – I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it’s very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they’re doing.
I’m obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there’d be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
To doubt God is to doubt one’s own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life. I wish I’d never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I’m glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.
I’m not a gay-basher, because gay people buy my records. Why would I be offended by your sexual preference, unless I’m in the closet? If ya like boys, go get all the boys ya want.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
‘Changes in Latitudes’ began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.
Eskimo: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ Priest: ‘No, not if you did not know.’ Eskimo: ‘Then why did you tell me?’
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer‘s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
I would love to date a chef. I’d probably get really fat, but I don’t care.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.
I think anybody who is interested in keeping their money safe from the criminal banking system would want gold, silver, and Bitcoin.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
I’ve never done anything because I thought it would look cool.
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief.’
Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It’s not negotiable.
I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. ‘Educated‘ is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means ‘serving officers daughters association.’ I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I’d kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it’s up to me to get where I want to go, but it’s a lot to take on.
I’m going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one – that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they’d be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin’ chickens.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
I really haven‘t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
I would describe my style as refreshing.
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.
Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
If I could teach people to be grateful, we could have an amazing world where negativity could not grow and foster, and children would have a smile on their face.
Being a chef would be too much hard work.
Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won’t buy. It bought me a house but it won’t buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won’t buy me a friend.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
I never thought I would say this, but I’m desperate to do an action film.
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
I would hope that young girls could relate to me and see that the lives of people on the internet are not as perfect as they seem.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
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.
And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
Few would deny the importance of tackling online hatred or child abuse content. The internet, after all, has become a key weapon for those who disseminate and incite hatred and violence against minorities, and for those who pose a horrifying threat to children.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
I’ve learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I’m looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial – what I present to people outwardly – but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Some people would call me a workaholic. I don’t consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it’s my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
Death is such a strange thing. One minute you’re here and then just gone. You’d think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
As we grow, we learn to handle situations differently than we normally would.
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I’m talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I’m hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
I was never a Certified Public Accountant… I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician… tailor.
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.
If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, ‘Eh, I think she can handle more.’ And the angels thinking, ‘What are you doing? You’re a lunatic.’ And God being like, ‘No, no, trust me. She can handle this.’
Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord’s.
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn’t marry someone for the ‘operational efficiencies’ they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.
If Heaven exists, to know that there’s laughter, that would be a great thing.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
I have a long way to go as far as my acting career is concerned. Lots of milestones are to be achieved and dreams to be fulfilled. I would someday want to do playback singing, too, as I am a very passionate singer.
Where there’s water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it’s bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you’re available.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.
I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much as seems reasonable because the economists who use more mathematics are somehow more respected than those who use less. That’s the trend.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we’d get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.
I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just – there wasn’t a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.
