Would Be Quotes - Page 21

If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

Once I sold my shares and figured I wanted to get out of the magazine business it was like, "Now I can do whatever I want, anything I want in the world." And I guess I subconsciously hoped it would be something a little more adult. But I just want to do funny shorts, and TV is the ultimate endpoint for that.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.

I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.