Would Be Quotes - Page 106

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good.

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

A win would be better than a draw.

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also... paralyses our powers of resistance to them.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and the debate was as misframed as would be a debate between the private or public ownership of slaves.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.