Would Quotes

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.