Would Quotes

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.