Would Be Quotes - Page 43

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.

Ive always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!

The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it's correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.

So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.

The experience would be that a customer would have total access to Burberry across any device, anywhere, and they would get exactly the same feeling of the brand, feeling of the culture, regardless of where, when, how they were accessing the brand.

The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?