Would Be Quotes - Page 48

The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

I was telling people if every time I answered a question about Multan I got a rupee, I would be a multimillionaire by now.

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

I would be so scared if I was a gay guy...you'll, like, die of AIDS.

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.

No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.

I am wearing a vest. If I had no arms, it would be a jacket.

It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.