Would Quotes

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

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

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.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

I always play women I would date.

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?