Would Be Quotes - Page 59

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher to deny phenomena simply because they are inexplicable at the present state of our knowledge. The more difficult it is to acknowledge their existence, the greater the care with which we must study these phenomena.

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

If the US were to attack North Korea, they'd certainly destroy North Korea, but South Korea would be pretty well wiped out too.

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.

I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.

The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.

If I could make anything disappear, it would be hate.