Would Quotes

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.