Would Quotes

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I would always want printed books.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.