Would Be Quotes - Page 56

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense.

One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely

Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads.

Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.

I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.