Would Be Quotes - Page 147

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.

Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried "Back!

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.

You need to be able to do that to market these possibilities to these specific investors who would be interested in a sector of that kind. It's what would be normally done by anybody with regard to attracting investment to particular sectors of the economy.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir.

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.