Would Quotes

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, 'I'd like to star in the play.'

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?