Would Quotes

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

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 my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

I always play women I would date.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

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?