Would Be Quotes - Page 189

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.

I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?

The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about a better society which should then improve education, and so on indefinitely. Correct education could not come into existence until an ideal state existed, and after that education would be devoted simply to its conservation. For the existence of this state he was obliged to trust to some happy accident by which philosophic wisdom should happen to coincide with possession of ruling power in the state.

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.

Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!

There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.