Would Be Quotes - Page 34

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.

My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.

The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.

Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.

And everything would be different, different.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

I think this would be a good time for a beer.

You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.