Would Quotes

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

I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!