Would Be Quotes - Page 98

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.

Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't

It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.

In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he might have believed it to be the work of Providence but it seemed to him now that to thank God for his life would be to suggest God had shrugged off all the others flicked them away like cigarette butts by the thousands and that seemed like abominable conceit. James Dorsey took no credit for being alive. His higher power these days was Chance.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

I never expected that this would be my life.

Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?

If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.