Would Quotes

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say,'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'