Quotation Explorer - 'Would'

She reads books as one would breathe air,to fill up and live. - Anne Dillard

Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon. - Clarice Lispector

Like life, revenge can be a messy business... And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which reason cannot know. - Emily Thorne

If God wanted us in the ocean, he wouldn’t have made the land. - Lauren Child

Think of a world where Detachment, Gratitude and Empathy were subjects included in every grade school’s curriculum. A new generation would emerge with an attitude of peace, contentment and an overall appreciation for everything and everyone - Gary Hopkins

Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group. - Jared Taylor

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination. - Fernando Pessoa

If the world were perfect, then I would not exist. - Gavriil Stiharul

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller

I would say happy new year but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder. - Robert Clark

No m’lord. It wouldn’t be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence. - Gary Edward Gedall

I would rather say that I messed something up, than that I was to afraid to try! - D.M. Pariso

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?' - Jay Leno

Never think you can convince God through prayer for a blessing. Praying for prosperity is a wrong weapon for war. If prayer could bring money, all intercessors would be billionaires. - Apostle T. Vutabwashe

...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine. - Winston S. Churchill

He realized without being aware of it that he had had the possibility to know her, before – had he known her? – but now that had changed. The possibility was gone. Now no one would know her unless she herself willed it. And there was nothing quite like the will he sensed in her now. - Amanda Coplin

Imagine if you were performing at your full potential, the lives you would change - including yours. Just imagine... - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. - Anne Enright

We don’t ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul. - Joseph Smith Jr.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told. - André Gide

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

If you always lived in comfort you would miss the adventure that is uncomfortable, but of great reward. - Chris Burkmenn

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. - Jean Rhys

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. - Winston S. Churchill

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. - Gore Vidal

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best. - Woodrow Wilson

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? - W. H. Auden

Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise. - Beverly S. Harless

I think we're moving toward a world where all the consumers under a certain age will probably tend to identify more with their consumer status or with the products they consume then they would with ... any sort of antiquated notion of nationality. - Gibson, William

If the creation of the Universe was left up to a atheist, we would still have nothing. - Josko J. Sestan

For a free PALESTINEYour tears,I want to dry it.If I could make a deal with God.Your freedom,I would like to return it to you.If I could make a deal with God. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness. - Lina Dimitrova

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say. - Michelle M. Pillow

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea. - Sanober Khan

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued. - John Holt

Mavis' bear sailed through the air in Cassie's room, falling onto the bed. 'What's he in aid of?' 'He's reconnaissance expert. He wouldn't hear of me enterin' potential hostile ground without testin' for fire. Has his sacrifice been in vain? - Christine M. Knight

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again. - H.W. Brands

Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves. - Shannon L. Alder

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment. - Danny Wallace

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest. - Martin Luther

Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right - Arthur W. Pink

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. - Terry Pratchett

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. - Orison Swett Marden

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. - Ronald Reagan

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . . - Joss Whedon

If Layla and Majnoon had seen Rasoolallah and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr, they would have bowed their heads and admitted they knew nothing about love and sacrifice. - Shaykh Mohammed Aslam

Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I would rather wear a suit everyday and be respected than dress half naked and be disrespected. - Bianca Frazier

I wish all the dead ideas would stay dead. - Marty Rubin

If we could be seen thinking, we would show blown bright one moment, dark the next, like embers; subject to every passing word and thought of our own or other people's, mostly other people's. - Dorothy Whipple

To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion. - Mitch McConnell

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. - Mitch Hedberg

asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France. - Thomas Jefferson

Never do anything for money you wouldn't do for free. - Marty Rubin

The 2 prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.As the tag line of my favorite dirty joke would have it: "Keep your hat on. We could wind up miles from here. - Kurt Vonnegut

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past. - Ruth Reichl

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work? - Daniel Quinn

Had I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And followed me. - Nizar Qabbani

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. - David Assael

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government. - Sheldon Richman

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough. - Meister Eckhart

His chuckle was low and soft against my earlobe. I think it’s more like ‘what wouldn’t I do for you? - Amanda Lance

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary. - Albert Einstein

THEY are afraid of nothing,' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they would brave Satan and all his legions. - Emily Brontë

If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again. - Guy de Maupassant

I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it. - Elvis Presley

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. - Stephen King

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Now please don't refer to yourself ass some woman I fuck occasionally because, quite frankly, it makes me mad, and you really wouldn't like me when I"m angry. - E.L. James

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. - Benjamin Franklin

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

Dreams take us to levels we would otherwise be afraid to strive for.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. - Peter Drucker

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful. - Oscar Wilde

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. - John Keats

If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously gifted me with an imagination that renders such a death entirely unimaginable? - Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard? - David Wong

I would rather be kind than wise. - Debasish Mridha

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill. - Holly Lisle

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something. - Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Sometimes things that are crippling to hear may be true or they wouldn't be so crippling. - James E. Cohea Jr.

We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller

If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle. - Matshona Dhliwayo

There is one thing you need to do to people who hate you for the way you are and what you do. What's that? The thing you do best. And that would be? Give them hell,and fight back,not violently,but give them reason to not like you. - Advice my friend gave me

When she wished for love, she wanted a perfect concoction of - respect, care and understanding. You dusted kisses, and hoped she would find all those in the debris.Love, my dear, is more mental than physical. - Saru Singhal

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. - John 21:25- Holy Bible

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me. - Alison Bechdel

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak? - Jay Leno

And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state. - Aminatta Forna

Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. - Alfonso X of Castile

Out of the abundance of the imagination rises the beast called worry and it is soon joined by its partners, anxiety and stress. If you would care to do away with all three at once, simply change your imagination. - G.V. Richards

If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not. - Nick Hornby

Instead of saying; "WWJD (What would Jesus do)?" I will be asking myself "WIDTM(Will I Do This Do Myself"Because Jesus said, "Love your neighbors as if you love yourself."So I will quote I will treat others as if I am treating myself - Temitope Owosela

If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. - Mikhail Bakunin

He accepted new ideas as readily as new trends. Knowing those worth it would last and the lessers will pass. - Hubert Martin

The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears. - John Vance Cheney

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. - David M. Ogilvy

You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya? - Lynda Barry

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention. - Jill Alexander Essbaum

You forsake all that you hold dear,for a dream that is not your own;you would rather live a liethan live your life alone - Lang Leav

Unchain the beast which lurks beneath your skin; for if you were to throw it the key to freedom, you would watch in ore as you transform into your true self. - Cory R. Lewis

Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside. - Chris Messina

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me! - Greg Curtis

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways. - Shannon L. Alder

Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way? - N. Eldon Tanner

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides. - Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't? - Nema Al-Araby

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. - Zora Neale Hurston

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. - Thomas Paine

just like the rain that patters on the ironsheets when your are having your best dream on the most important day of the of your life .thats the kind of happiness awaiting for us: would you marry me my sweatest word - mashood dash

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. - Mark Twain

The world would be a sadder place without stories. - David Gemmell

Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Loving yourself is the first step towards knowing what you would and wouldn't take from people - it determines not just the way people treat you but the relationships you keep in the first place - Mr Imbuya

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? - Albert Camus

Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing. - John Feinstein

You told me you would never leave me, but the only thing I feel is loneliness... - Mickeal Bonneau

I'm tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies! - Hamid Karima

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. - Bill Watterson

My love for you reaches beyond the borders of continents, so vast in scope that I would cross oceans to be with you.Yes, but does that same love penetrate so deep as to dare thee to sink to the oceans' depths to find me?"-from "My Aquarius - Richelle E. Goodrich

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles. - Benedict Cumberbatch

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision. - Daniel Englisch

All words are written in the same ink,'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same,and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed. - Philippe Jaccottet

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry. - Douglas Wilson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I had a dream or a goal… then maybe I would be able to overcome the obstacles in my way. - Paradise Kiss

proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. Carl Friedrich Gauß - Sophie Germain

Monty Python's usual schoolboy humour is here let loose on a period of history appropriately familiar to every schoolboy in the West, and a faith which could be shaken by such good-humoured ribaldry would be a very precarious faith indeed.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness. - Elyn R. Saks

I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. - Bill Russell

it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. - Joan Rivers

I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?. - Gugu Mona

Is it really you this time, Kells?Well, I’m no maggoty corpse, if that’s what you mean.He grinned. That’s a relief. No maggoty corpse would be that sarcastic. - Colleen Houck

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. - Henry Ellis

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger font than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. - Jane Austen

If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to speak for the voiceless. - Gugu Mona

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady. - Shah Asad Rizvi

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. - Michael Pollan

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about - pleasefindthis

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date. - Dale Carnegie

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. - James Russell Lowell

If I have the power to make things that I want it to be then life would be so better as I hope it to be.. - San Sai R.A

S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.) - Voltaire

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.

If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. - Charles Caleb Colton

If I had to give you a proper description, I would say a camel cricket is basically a cross between a grasshopper and a dragon and that its natural habitat is the nightmares of men. - Chris Gethard

Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of their small size and weakness. They would not treat them this way if they realized that these very small bees can carry honey which is very valuable in their stomachs. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it. - Sarah Addison Allen

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. - Isaac Asimov

If only we could keep the wars between sperm and stop the ones between people, we would have peace through pleasure. - Dr Susan Block, The Bonobo Way

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. - Theodore Roosevelt

I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up millionaires from members of my church - Sunday Adelaja

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. - Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. - George R.R. Martin

That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would feel it... a pulse. My pulse. My blood is hope. - Hubert Martin

If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. - Tom Lehrer

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. - Aldous Huxley

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. - Norman Augustine

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. - Arthur C. Clarke

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially. - E.B. White

If you think you would need to change the world, think of your death and the size of your casket before starting to believe in your thoughts or else you are a loser. - Auliq Ice

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. - Ovid

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. - Baruch Spinoza

Dead men make convenient heroes because they cannot rise to challenge the images we would fashion from their lives. And besides it’s easier to build a monument than to build a better world. - Rev. Dr. William Barber I

That's why for you, you have the right to be cruel to me. No matter how much you make me worry or how much danger you put me in, just as much as you like. But these are not enough 'compensation.' Even if I have to sacrifice my left over life for you, I would not utter a word of complaint. - Matsuri Hino

There are problems and there are problems. One big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and where or how he wants to be tomorrow. Had it not been this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth. - Sunday Adelaja

I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not! - Faraaz Kazi

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? - David Bohm

And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future. - Vikram Seth

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them. - Iain M. Banks

I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't. - Angeline Trevena

Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly. - Miriam Toews

Challenge yourself or what you are right now is the best you will ever be and never what you thought you would be. - Auliq Ice

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.

Only fate would decree how it reached its destiny, which always waited just around the corner, over the hill... - Virginia Alison

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein

I hated you, said Laurent. "I hated you so badly I thought I’d choke on it. If my uncle hadn’t stopped me, I would have killed you. And then you saved my life, and every time I needed you, you were there, and I hated you for that, too. - CS Pacat

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good? - John Janzen

Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach. - Ron Brackin

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. - Dorothy Parker

[T]hat they may believe you, you must say it as obscurely as possible, just like that, simply in hints. You must only give them a peep of the truth, just enough to tantalize them. They'll tell a story better than ours, and of course they'll believe themselves more than they would us... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself. - J.R. Rim

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes. - Jeff Nunokawa

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. Ah, punster, would my lot were cast, Where the cobbler is unknown, So that I might forget his last And hear your own. Gargo Repsky - Ambrose Bierce

The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end. - Douglas Adams

Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no... - Ravi Howard

She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me."Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing.I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came. - Rick Riordan

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity. - Christopher Page

when at times to remind us of the blessings we have been giventhen we are more likely to understand how special our lives areit's not by chance as some would maybe believebut the grand design of love and fulfillment,... - levi paul taylor

It’s often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it’s a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge, otherwise I would be stalking Oprah right now, begging for a transfusion. - Renee Carlino

If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday; valentine’s day wouldn’t be so 'special. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. - Voltaire

You can't have everything. Where would you put it? - Steven Wright

I'm against group sex because I wouldn't know where to put my elbows.

If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it. - Carolyn Chute

My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave. - Stonewall Jackson

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept it’s mouth shut? - Ashwin Sanghi

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy. - Astrid Lindgren

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Doug Larson

I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. - Frodo Baggins

Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering. - Stephen Richards

It was all a matter of timing," she says. "My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are. - Erin Morgenstern

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have. - Frances Mayes

Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known had you not tried - Epiphana Lewis

The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright. - Beem Weeks

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. - Christina Stead

The universe doesn't command that we love. That would be forcing it. But the Universe does have a heart and when it looks from within it wants it's components to the do the same with unconditional love. Through it's own inner guidance and thus ours. - Matthew Donnelly

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man". - Russell Beland

There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. - Frances Clark

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work. - Michelle M. Pillow

If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

One is that if women’s sexuality in Africa wasn’t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren’t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behavior generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn’t have a pandemic. - Stephen Lewis

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer. - Shannon L. Alder

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing. - Matshona Dhliwayo

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. - Elisabeth Elliot

I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. - Abraham Lincoln

This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right. - J.R. Rim

Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me - Jonathan Safran Foer

I didn't have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow? - Brandon Sanderson

It wouldn't be much fun living on a planet where grass could not grow. - Ruskin Bond

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death! - Eugene O'Neill

He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same. He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no part. Any combination would have produced the same result. The same man. - R.A.Lucas

To love you would have to relate, you are a more perfect being if your own existence is logically impossible. - Henry Johnson Jr

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. - Anonymous

[Jupiter's] satellites are invisible to the naked eye and therefore can have no influence on the Earth and therefore would be useless and therefore do not exist.

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope. - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success. - Luci Shaw

If it wasn't for the elderly we wouldn't be were we are today. - Nettie Febus

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.

Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

…love is by definition freeand if he choose to gowhen I would have him stayperhaps I'll die a bitbut I'd rather sothan taste his absent minded kissand lie uneasy in a masked embrace - Lenore Kandel

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning. - Mr. Nobody

That God had a plan, I do not doubt.But what if His plan was, that we would do better? - Mary Oliver

I would bear it for her if I could.People say that and hardly mean it. I, however, do mean it. But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable. - Penelope Fitzgerald

Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything? - Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

I would rather rudder - Victor J. Garcia

Andi would close my eyes foreverif you promise to let me stay in your dreams - Aditya Kandari

If the past was what we were meant to see…then behind, not in front, our eyes would be. - - RVM

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided. - Tinnekke Bebout

I felt a hole boring through my heart. It was carving a scar that would never heal. I was a man. A man doesn't cry at lost love. Never. Instead, he turns hard. From now on, I would live up to my name"...Rattler. - Barry Andrew Chambers

There’s still other songs that I think that would never be on the radio that get, it’s a different kind of response. Part II, there’s just nothing like that. That song will never be on a radio station. … that song doesn’t need that sort of following in order to connect. - Hayley Williams

Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make. - Colleen Houck

If I could find one wordthat would shudder the airlike that frightened sob,that wordless prayerof my newly-born,who drew one breath,and with unopened eyessank back into death;If I could break the world's cold heartwith that cry,then this grief would liftand I could die. - Kenneth L. Patton

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal. - Thomas Sowell

Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. - Victor Hugo

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas A. Edison

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. - Josh Billings

I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone. - Conchitina Cruz

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent Van Gogh

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred. - Thomas Jefferson

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. - Dean Koontz

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.

He preferred to give in the light,because whenit was dark, he was afraid his giving would go unnoticed - Charmaine J Forde

In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again. - Arthur C. Clarke

Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special—otherwise special wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones—and this is the problem. - Tim Urban

There is one thing you need to do to people who hate you for the way you are and what you do. What's that? The thing you do best. And that would be? Give them hell. - Advice my friend gave me

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

Not until we are faced with a crisis or sadness do we begin to remember that if we only laughed a bit more, loved a lot more, and felt the simplicity of loving ourselves-just a little more…this day would be the greatest day ever! - Lee Pryke

Hackers find more success with organizations where employees are under appreciated, over worked and under paid. Why would anyone in an organization like that care enough to think twice before clicking on a phishing email? - James Scott

They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul knows that what life throws at you today, is only preparing you for a stronger tomorrow. After all, you can't build a castle without first laying down its foundations... - Seja Majeed

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama! - Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

All governmental intervention has as its object a forcible altering of what people would do were they unrestrained.

No matter how dire a situation may be, I can always find the humor in it somewhere. If I was ever in a horror movie I would be the goofy one who doesn't seem to know quite what's going on but survives to the end with witty one-liners. - A.J. Rose

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment. - Geoffrey Wood

I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's. - John Fowles

God would never place a dream in your heart that He didn't have the ability to fulfill. - Chris Burkmenn

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion. - L. Ron Hubbard

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. - Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him? - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

:...For animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place. - Scott O'Dell

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. - Charles M. Schulz

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money. - Quentin R. Bufogle

With great love comes occasions of pain. You can't skip the pain; without it, you would never know what a precious thing love is. You wouldn't know to hang onto it. You wouldn't know to fight for it. You embrace the pain because the love makes it all worthwhile. - Theresa Smith

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

If there are infinite dimensions then there would be infinite alternate realities and if there are infinite alternate realities we would exist in almost all of them that would make all of us omnipresent... - Stanley Victor Paskavich

He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. - Olin Miller

Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance... it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be most attracted to poisonous men. - Steve Maraboli

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. - Mark Twain

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending - Anonymous

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be. - Langston Hughes

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige

It’s like this…a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a feast if that’s all he had. But if he had a buffet in front of him, the radish would never be chosen. - Colleen Houck

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know. - Rita Mae Brown

Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death - Jarred Cole

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. - Erma Bombeck

Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that. - Shannon L. Alder

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. - Steve Allen

Mama said there would be days like this.She never said it would be day after day,after day!~ Unknown - Candace Mumford

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. - Gabriel García Márquez

If I would have to give an 'occupation', a 'vocation' for MySelf then, that would be a ... 'Mind Beautician' ... 'Αἰσθητικός Νόησις' ...Yes, I rather enJOY what that ENtails !"~ Ale3ia - Chevalieuse de Faeinoterre Helia

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. - Grandma Moses

Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school. - John Holt

Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated. - Bam Zakariya

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse. - Shilpa Sandesh

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell. - Tanya Masse

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. - H. L. Mencken

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. - Peace Pilgrim

It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K. - Dave Eggers

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough! - Shannon L. Alder

Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area. - Xaviera Hollander

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. - Ambrose Bierce

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. - Woody Allen

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. - Morrissey

I should’ve died with my parents… than live in this world, I say, my voice is faintHe asks, Why choose to die if you can live this world? He chuckled.I gave him a faint smile and say, A world so hateful, some would rather die, than be who they are. - Alyanna Mallari

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert. - Palle Oswald

I would fain die a dry death. - William Shakespeare

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. - Abraham Lincoln

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship. - Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Don’t be a shallow person. Do everything with zealous devotion, as you would do it for Christ - Sunday Adelaja

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?' - John Cleese

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming. - Gibson, Chrissy

Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. - Cher

i would've done anything to make you happy.i think you knew that.i think this is why you knew you had to let me go. - Ava

If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for. - skint foodie

Science Magazine wouldn't in a dream think about publishing a single Chinese term. Chinese words and brands must be suppressed, crushed even, hold back at all costs. - Thorsten J. Pattberg

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. - Tom Masson

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. - Rodney Stark

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would. - Charlotte Eriksson

What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-) - Abhimanyu Jha

It would only take one generation of forgetfulness to put us back intellectually several hundred years. - Dean Tollefson

If I may paraphrase 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. Thomas Henry Huxley - Hobbes

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. - Epictetus

Tell me, Mr. Bennet, how can we amuse you during your visit? Do you hunt? Lady Catherine was spooning her turtle soup, blowing delicately to cool it.I am certain an animal would sooner die of laughter than gunshot wound if I even made the attempt. - Karen V. Wasylowski

As the four girls were taking her father's life, she had tried to rush onto the stage. But two old university janitors held her down and whispered into her ear that she would lose her own life if she went. - Liu Cixin

"If you were my husband, i would feed you poison." "If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account. - Scott Adams

I may be 65 tomorrow, but i have no plans to 'let go.My psychiatrist asked me the same thing. He said he wanted to give me a pill so I wouldn’t obsess so much over momentary things. I told him I don’t want a pill. I want an answer. - Yuvika Mathur

I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it'll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you'll die. - Cedric Go

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Generally, a woman would rather be married to any man that she doesn’t hate, than remain unmarried to a man that she loves. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men. - Björk

I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If that meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry; I was prepared to do it and to do it with dignity. - Jessica Thompson

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory. - H. L. Balcomb

Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny. - Steve Maraboli

I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we. - Andrew Smith

When a million little things go right, that’s called success. Failure functions as the great leveler. When things don’t go as planned, it’s humbling. It’s important to make mistakes along the way, or we would be impossible to live with. - Judy Frankel

If the world needs to end on its own choice, it would have end by now. - Hani.N

Already she knew that an idea could pain him like a bruise. He had grey eyes that showed every thought, and sometimes Charlotte worried that he might be hurt in some way that she would not be able to prevent. - Lauren Owen

Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren't afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life's purpose. - Shannon L. Alder

In my hands I held gold dust and tarnished rust, but looking further in, I saw the few diamonds I've come to know as soul mates in my life. They sparkled a little brighter and I'd notice the lack of weight if they were gone. They would leave not as a loss, but as a hole in my palm. - Hubert Martin

The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn't be nearly as fun. - Shannon L. Alder

I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me - Lori Lesko

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. - Benjamin Franklin

if reason ruled the world would history even exist? - Ryszard Kapuściński

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now. - Natalie de Clare

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. - Donald Trump

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. - Paul Pearsall

Violet sighed in the way you do when you know something bad is going to happen, but hope against hope that it won’t, but it does anyway and you realize that you always knew it would and were stupid for having made yourself believe that you could stop it. - Victoria Forester

I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends. - Sher E Yazdan

I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothing to say. - Enrique Tessieri

I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love - Seema Gupta

What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying? - Jackie Blue

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized. - Jeffrey Tucker

Notwithstanding how uncanny moments of life might be, you never walk backwards. Once you take a step, you move forward by a step with a step. That is life! Even a child would never crawl backward and so would streams hardly flow backward. Just keep moving when it is a must to move! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time. - Theodore Dalrymple

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. - Werner Herzog

Zoe leaned closer to Ruth, nearly nose to nose. If they were made from better stuff, they would have pretended the fault was theirs. They would have made a moment of it--a pretty moment. - Michael Benzehabe

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia. - Anne Rice

If their tears could be read,as the blind can read brailleWould your eyes then be openedto another & how they feel?Without condemnation or any aversions from withinCould you set aside judgementwhile seeking total absolution? - Christine Upton

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. - Jay Leno

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames. - Shah Asad Rizvi

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT? - Akira Kurosawa

When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart. - LaMar Boschman

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. - Chris Matakas

The most disappointing part of real life is there's no soundtrack.I think life would be far more wonderful if a corresponding song played during key moments to expressed the tone & feeling of the situation. - Trevor Driggers

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. - Margaret Mead

The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal. - Anna M. Aquino

Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong. - Shannon L. Alder

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back - Blaise Pascal

There’s still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then. - Toni Sorenson

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell

If roses were not special weeds would not envy them. - Matshona Dhliwayo

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) - Kellie Elmore

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. - Jason E. Hodges

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

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. - Edgar Watson Howe

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow. - Shannon L. Alder

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'. - Joss Whedon

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Socrates

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain. - Shannon L. Alder

I worked for a menial’s hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have willingly paid. - Jessie B. Rittenhouse

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher. - Eugene V. Debs

I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul. I would like that a lot. - Zora Neale Hurston

What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. - Francis Wheen

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?""The Foresail?""Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called..."..."The Next Sail, Sir?""Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler. - L.A. Meyer

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter

Would you please shut up and sit down! - George Bush

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban. - Umberto Eco

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? - Faraaz Kazi

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here. - Steve Stockman

There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for now man should take me alive. - Harriet Tubman

The pain of being treated like a mere object. And a sense that this pain would turn into pleasure. - Natsuo Kirino

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. - Kin Hubbard

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. - Orison Swett Marden

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. - George Orwell

Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life. - Eustace Conway

So, we eat again. Well, perhaps the relationship wouldn’t go anywhere, but I would certainly put on a few pounds. - Max Gordon

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. - John Malkovich

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' - Aaron Copland

Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.

I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa. - Sunday Adelaja

I do press junkets and people will tell me what I've supposedly said in articles and I always disagree with myself. 'Why in the world would I say that?' - Meg Ryan

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. - Friedrich Nietzsche

God created us so that His love, beauty, perfection, and harmony would be seen through us. - Sunday Adelaja

If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive. - Benjamin Lotter

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. - Gabriel García Márquez

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost

It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be. - Randy K. Milholland

There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights. - Mark Twain

I’d love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I’m ranked, which is below him. - Donna Lynn Hope

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! - Joseph Addison

...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years. - Michael Herr

The human heart is a dark, unyielding mystery. It is a perforated jug with a mouth forever open; though all rivers of the earth pour in, it will remain empty and thirsting. The greatest of hopes had not filled it. Would it be filled now by the greatest of despairs? (Report to Greco) - N. Kazantzakis

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. - H. L. Mencken

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. - Nora Ephron

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail. - Laurence Sterne

Would you produce, create and bring value to the world if it weren't for money? Or would you veg out? The necessity of money keeps people relevant and active. The paradox is that people who stay relevant and active make money. - Richie Norton

A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history. - H.G. Wells

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

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. - Groucho Marx

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." - William S. Burroughs

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. - Paul Valéry

The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth. - George R.R. Martin

It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release. - Michael Gira

But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now. - Nicki Minaj

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. - Victor Hugo

Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live? - Anna Jean Ouellette

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it. - G.K. Chesterton

Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly. - Darynda Jones

[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost

I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better. The lady gave a discriminating smile. I am afraid there are moments in life when even Beethoven has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst moments. - Henry James

Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai - Gosho Aoyama

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost. - Bruce Springsteen

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing - Glenn Greenwald

If I could find the words, if I could shake the world,If I could turn back time would you still be there?If I could find the words to say,If I could shake the world to break you down,Then would you still be there? - Of Mice & Men

If you do not grasp, intellectually or spiritually, the 'One' in All, you would've lived and died as your former self - ape, et all. - Fakeer Ishavardas

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage. - Elizabeth Aston

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love. - Maureen Hawkins

I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin. - Mary Sage Nguyen

If one could always predict the future, this person would soon be the saddest being on earth, for it cannot be surprised nor could it stop thinking of making a difference. - LordBloodySoul

They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves. - Geoffrey Wood

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. - Elbert Hubbard

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

Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy. - Daniel M. Greenberger

I am writing for her... for the universe to hear... but her screams have made me deaf... and my passion has blinded her… I Wish she was here... my hugs could cure her ... I am her medicine… all her fears would be removed, and the magic she would feel - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists. - Criss Jami

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. - Gary Larson

Where would I find enough leatherTo cover the entire surface of the earth?But with leather soles beneath my feet,It’s as if the whole world has been covered. - Śāntideva

Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn’t that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too. - Farish A. Noor

Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult as trying to belive that there is enough love & compassion in the world so every human can feel happiness. - Egor Kraft

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me. - John Waters

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor. - Mary Doria Russell

I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far. - Arzum Uzun

He's the kind of guy who might not have an expiration date. Who I could fall for so completely that I might as well put my heart in a blender right now because it would hurt less. Who I could want with the kind of passion that makes you forget important things like the promises you make to yourself. - Rachael Allen

Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. - Unknown

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then - Henry David Thoreau

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. - Franklin P. Adams

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government - Spurious quote attributed to George Washington but never said by him .

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. - Stephen Colbert

I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start. - Sonali Deraniyagala

EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy -- that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion. - Ambrose Bierce

A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking. - Michael Bassey Johnson

President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room. - Aaron Sorkin

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. - Maurice Wilkins

How would your life be different if you decided to live your dream instead of holding onto your nightmare? Let today be the day you free yourself from the fears that are holding you back and act upon the dream you've always had. - Steve Maraboli

Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets. - Unknown

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. - Garrison Keillor

If a friend says - I'm Fine - they don't mean it, but if you're a real friend, then you wouldn't mind spending a few more minutes with them. - BlackStar103

I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant. Hardly anyone would believe that it could start a revolution. Nevertheless, I have come to realize the weight and power of this straw. - Fukuoka , Masanobu

Never join two things that would be happier apart. - Marty Rubin

Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions. - Mignon McLaughlin

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel. - Tiffany Madison

Kylie flopped back against the seat again, enjoying the look of disbelief on the vampire’s face a littletoo much. Would you like a name of a good doctor who will schedule your little snip-snip operation?she bit out. - C.C. Hunter

It wasn’t closure, really. But I’d said the right things. I’d hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn’t get closure. Maybe some things weren’t really worth it, or didn’t really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious. - Vee Hoffman

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. - James Thurber

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

Sometimes it is one step at a time, and things don’t always work out the way we would like them to, but as you allow God to direct you He will bring you to a place of peace. - Anna Stevens

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray. - Oscar Wilde

As young adults, we were wearing the shoes of the new future. Our generation would soon be the ones to determine the political climate of our country, the constitution of a family, and the morality of man. What an awesome burden we carried. - Lynda I Fisher

Be the person you would want to be friends with. - Fakeer Ishavardas

I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me. - Tonny K. Brown

History, Geology, Psychology, Philosophy, Chemistry, Physics, Theology, Mathematics, Technology, Sociology, Biology, and the list goes on and on. If all this body of knowledge exist for human consumption, why would I specialize in only one field? - Allan Amanyire

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school. - Jennifer Elisabeth

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. - Isaac Asimov

Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person.... - Ramana Pemmaraju

Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine. - Shannon L. Alder

I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just sort of POOF found myself there and there I was with a gigantic Belgian waffle in my hands, standing on a sidewalk in Belgium! - C. JoyBell C.

I did so many bad things to your god; if he or she exists; would have been pregnant now. - M.F. Moonzajer

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know? - Jalaluddin Rumi

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it. - D.A. Simpson

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not? - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do to others as you would've them do to you. scientific fact prove that action make some reaction. Don't fuck with me, & I won't fuck with you - E.G

I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that! - Mignon' Talise Padilla

The truth is Christmas evolved from the Roman holiday Saturnalia, a winter festival where men gave gifts to each other. They also would get drunk, have sex with each other and beat their wives - Huey Freeman The Boondocks

She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations. - Ian McEwan

Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices. - Fakeer Ishavardas

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him. - Thomas Hardy

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge. - Idries Shah

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained - Walt Disney Company

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. - Aaron Copland

Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience? - Todd Stocker

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left. - Mihail Drumeş

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. - Chinese proverb

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently? - Shannon L. Alder

If you were food, you would be corn. I dont know why, i just sense corn in you. - Lizbeth Mori

gyms would run out of business.. if love-making did more for your fitness than just the moans, groans, huffing and puffing... - The Fitness Doc

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal - Leonard Ravenhill

If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal - Justin Southwick

We did musical chairs to sit with our partner. Glasses were refilled and heads bent in pairs. Looking over the table, I was suffused with affection for my friends. If you could bottle this warm feeling and turn it into words, I thought, that would be the perfect toast. - Kerry Reichs

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind. - Ashwin Sanghi

If words could build a bridge In the dimension where you belong I would bind the syllables to see your smile again. - Jayson Zabate

I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective, - Tim Tebow

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain? - Margaret Landon

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. - Shannon L. Alder

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. - Cicero

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex. - N.M. Silber

If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises". - Ronald Reagan

All I wanted for Christmas was a New Years Eve party that I would never forget. Too bad I got too drunk to remember it. - Carroll Bryant

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you know the power of your thoughts, you would never fear failure. - Debasish Mridha

Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan"Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley - Keri Arthur

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. - Albert Camus

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons. - Clive Barker

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. - Carl Sagan

Tobias: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don’t seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out. - Joyce, T.S.

I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing with boys in awkward suits was starting to sound like a great alternative. Seriously. Sign my up, I wouldn't even complain. - Alyxandria Harvey

Radical feminism is working for the eradication of domination and elitsim in all human relationships. This would make self-determination the ultimate good and require the downfall of society as we know it today. - Cellestine Ware

What would Munchausen do? - Hermester Barrington

He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just saying." - Warren - Brandon Mull

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. - John Stuart Mill

If everyone would've been childlike, not childish, the world would've be a better place. - Nurudeen Ushawu

Jesus lived a life of deep meditation. If thoughts and words were physical objects, meditation would be the act of holding, examining, taking apart, tasting, smelling, listening to, and savoring in order to study and become one. - amy litzelman

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. - Bette Davis

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose. - Thomas Szasz

Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science? - Derrick Jensen

Alone at home,Washing dishes while thinking about her thatHow beautiful it would’ve been if she was here. - Ahmed Ali Anjum

Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren't a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings? - Nicolas Barreau

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp. - J.R.R. Tolkien

- had a million things to do today; death would have to wait, -(The Tin Star) - J.L. Langley

One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know what you'll do in the dark till the lights go out. - James Carlos Blake

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. - Confucius

one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We had been with the men, we had let them do what they wanted. But they would never know the parts of ourselves that we hid from them - they would never sense the lack or even know there was something more they should be looking for. - Emma Cline

Someone had given my daughter a doctor's kit. Carefully, she takes her own temperature, places the pressure cuff around her arm. Then she takes the cuff off and examines it. "Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says. - Jenny Offill

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space. - Dejan Stojanovic

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! - J.R.R. Tolkien

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. - Britney Spears

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them - Harold J. Smith

That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what youshould name it. - Nathan Reese Maher

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. - Candice Bergen

If money could have changed the world, money would have changed the world. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others. - Eric Diehl

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it. - Ursula K. Le Guin