Would Quotes

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.