Would Be Quotes - Page 173

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center of the marriage. This would be a grave mistake, however, as marriage itself is designed to be a great reflector of that gospel.

To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must eat. You don’t really entertain the notion of going back. You, with some startling new level of clarity, realize that going back would be far worse than simply being as you are. This is obvious to anyone without an eating disorder. This is not always obvious to you.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.