Would Quotes

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

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.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.