Would Quotes

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.