Would Quotes

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.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.