Would Quotes

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.