Would Quotes

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.