Would Be Quotes - Page 37

What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are great at rocket science. We love rocket science. What we’re not good at are the things that are so simple and basic that we overlook them.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

It would be good karma.

Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state of dynamic disequilibrium and behave quite differently from what would be considered normal by the theory of efficient markets. Such boom/bust sequences do not arise very often, but when they do, they can be very disruptive, exactly because they affect the fundamentals of the economy.

The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion