Would Be Quotes - Page 91

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones...Historic.

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder ― or impossible ― to lose.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?