Would Quotes

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, 'I'd like to star in the play.'

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.