Would Quotes

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.