Would Be Quotes - Page 72

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.

I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better service, etc.], I think it would be better - and I think we'll eventually get there. It wouldn't be better at the top - [our current system] is the best in the world at the top. But the waste in the present system is awesome and we do get some very perverse incentives.

It would be nice if this [finding really cheap stocks] happened all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't.

True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.

If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and that someone else would take care of everything. How easy life would be without having grown-up problems to worry about. And then she could grow up all over again.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren't working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.

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.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.