Would Quotes

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.