Would Quotes

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

For your information, I would like to ask a question.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.