Would Be Quotes - Page 125

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.

I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.

Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would be especially advantageous to Maine. Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

If someone's pointing a gun at you, you get a surge of adrenaline, but it would be a lot better if they weren't pointing the gun at you in the first place.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once

It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

Looks aren't the number one thing. They have to have class, intelligence, then looks. If I was the ugliest SOB in the world it would be a lot easier.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.