Would Quotes

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?"

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.