Would Quotes

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.