Would Be Quotes - Page 47

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.

If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?

When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive

Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.