Would Be Quotes - Page 174

I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with - he doesn't deal with members of Congress.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it. There would be, perhaps, a few skirmishes on the frontiers, and then everything would be arranged diplomatically.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

You’re better off fighting hand to hand than wielding a weapon you don’t know how to use. A skilled opponent would simply disarm you. Then your troubles would be doubled. Not only would you be under attack, but you’d have to counter your own weapon

[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.