Would Be Quotes - Page 63

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

There is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier. Let's do a huge naked photo shoot!

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.

The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation.

It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

I never thought I would be divorced.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.