Would Quotes

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?"