Would Be Quotes - Page 127

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops..." I was what you call the buzz kill.

Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.

We knew from the beginning the level of commitment needed. We felt honored to work with Stanley Kubrick. We were going to do what it took to do this picture, whatever time, because I felt - and Nic [Nicole Kidman] did, too - that this was going to be a really special time for us. We knew it would be difficult. But I would have absolutely kicked myself if I hadn`t done this.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

I once said to someone, If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.

We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.

Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

I knew I would be able to come back from the injury 100 percent.

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.