Would Quotes

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.