Would Be Quotes - Page 68

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn’t done... the paths you hadn’t taken, the things you hadn’t experienced.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

It's [Ted] Cruz and [Donald] Trump until the establishment or unless the establishment figures rally around one person. I still think the best person for them to rally around is Chris Christie. Chris Christie would be the most interesting.

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious.' And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want a cross with me at all times.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.

The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.