Would Be Quotes - Page 131

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Hmm... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality).

It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.

By morning, she was raw and sore, and knew walking would be an effort. By morning, she could barely remember what it had been like to not know his body, not to have felt him inside her and held him in her arms and absorbed the power of his thrusts as he came. By morning, she was his.

There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.

People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

Rudy Giuliani would bring conflicts of interest into any Senate confirmation hearing that would be impossible to clear if confirmation hearings operate under the same gravitational forces that they used to in the pre-Trump era.