Would Quotes

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.