Would Be Quotes - Page 10

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

If it's me, it would be a waste not to dance no matter what.

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

It would be a very short pint. It would be gummy bears and matzah, and be called Chewy Jewy.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.

People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

For me, wearing lingerie isn't about anyone else but me. If I dressed for others I would be a miserable person.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set of reasonable rules, than to pretend that Ricardian trade is the norm and allow mercantilist states to overwhelm U.S. industry and ratchet down wages, in the name of free trade.

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat [would-be hecklers] to the punch.

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.