Would Be Quotes - Page 93

Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world

We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happened. I think the world would be a much nicer place.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.

The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!