Would Be Quotes - Page 179

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.

I would love Kate Middleton to be in 'Glee.' Wouldn't that be fantastic? That would be great.

There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.

I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.

I had to come up with some criteria to help me; i.e., what the favor was, if it was legitimate, if it was in no way compromising, and if there would be a benefit some way by my participation.

If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.

I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.

For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons. You were right; I was wrong. Get it out.

I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.

I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.