Would Quotes

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

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.