Would Be Quotes - Page 175

(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

I don't like catchphrases either. A current one would be, "Bye, Felicia." It's used so much that we don't even know the origin anymore.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

I don't know anything about bankrupting four companies. Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.

Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream.

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].

The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.

I just thought it would be a fun rush of adrenaline to jump out of a plane three times.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights.

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.