Would Be Quotes - Page 103

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage band movies." But even the same musicians from garage bands would go to my movies and you could tell what they liked from the way that they dressed and they would be the first ones to walk out.

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

The Bible says that in the last days, there would be false teachers. And, it also says that in the End Times that... there would be an apostasy.

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else - that would be fatal.

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about Portugal? What about Italy? What about the whole of the Eurozone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice about what has to happen.

Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.

If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.