Would Be Quotes - Page 96

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.

A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I?

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.

Well, I'll be honest with you, sometimes you don't know you're playing a moment that's going to be in a montage. Sometimes it's a scene that didn't work out the way you hoped it would be and ends up in a montage.

It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.