Would Be Quotes - Page 111

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasnt the case. I struggled.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.