Would Be Quotes - Page 39

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me.

The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.

I've always felt like you should love who you love - sexuality doesn't matter. It would be so cool in the future if it weren't even an issue to anybody anymore.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.