Would Quotes

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

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

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.