Would Be Quotes - Page 3

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.

It would be a foetus of monarchy!

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.

It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.

It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism!

If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions.

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.