Would Quotes

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.