Would Be Quotes - Page 83

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.

My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.

On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."

If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.