Would Quotes

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?"

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies.

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.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.