Would Quotes

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?

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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