Would Quotes

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.