Would Be Quotes - Page 135

I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that.

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

Health care is a far more serious, immediate and destructive problem than social security. . . . The upfront investment needed to fund system wide [health care] reform . . . would be far offset by the savings.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done…Who has ever maintained that by judging a wrong I presuppose that I myself would be incapable of committing it?

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.

I think that the Peeps or Peppies or Pipes diaries would be much more popular had there been a universal pronuncation of his name.

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.