Would Be Quotes - Page 22

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.

Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.

Stefan would be so great for her, because it's just so annoying watching those two on screen all the time!

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.

If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

When Michael (Jackson) died, it felt like part of my family died. I want [my fans] to know that my music is for them and if, god forbid, anything happened [to me], it would be like a piece of them is gone.

Without death there would be very little progress.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.