Quotation Explorer - 'Would'

I hate it when life tempt or test the integrity, friendship, loyalty,honesty,commitment ,care and love of the people close to me or around me, Because they fail the test and fail me. Its sad how they react towards my situation than how I would have reacted to their situation. - De philosopher DJ Kyos

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. - Theodore Sturgeon

Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow, we would have never wished to open our eyes again for the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow never ends! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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 would rather love you and live a miserable life than live a wonderful life without your love. - Debasish Mridha

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective. - Mike Dooley

While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was...struggling with all the loss in her life. - Donna Lynn Hope

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

There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision. - Sunday Adelaja

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. - Oscar Wilde

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint. - Habeeb Akande

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside! - C. JoyBell C.

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent? - Ilona Mialik

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week. - Bert Hölldobler, Edward Wilson

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation. - Gordon B. Hinckley

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin. - Robert K. Massie

Without our ancestors we would not be. - Old Hawaiian proverb

Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they thought would be your disadvantage, you turn it into your advantage. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous. - Fernando Pessoa

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. - Beatrice Potter Webb

Loyalty, trust, we both know those don’t exist toward others in our world. We prize ourselves above all others. To deny that would make you the biggest liar there is." - Marko Delacroix - Alaska Angleini (Lure (Marko Delacroix series))

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. - Samuel Johnson

If the lifestyle choices outlined in this book were uniformly adopted, the savings in suffering and health care costs would be tremendous. - Tim Loy

This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would. - Elizabeth Kostova

When I made you my Everything, you gave me nothing. If I made you my Nothing would you want to give me everything? - Kate McGahan

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

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? - Robert H. Schuller

If you would create something,you must be something. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural. - David Gibson

Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategize, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world. - Sunday Adelaja

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy

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

If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it. - Stanley J. Sarnoff

But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it. - Sarah Vowell

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf

Those who would abuse your trust for their own benefit can do it well, but only one time. - JA Perez

Being a Christian, for some other people, is not cool-praying, reading bible, lifting your hands while singing Christian songs, listening to a boring sermon? But would it still be cool if you're already in hell? Think about that. - Aby Santos

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 would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memory can step Around – across – opon it – As one within a Swoon – Goes safely – where an open eye – Would drop Him – Bone by Bone. - Emily Dickinson

A Halloween flower,if ever there was one,would smell like an onion,have thorns like a rose.With charcoal black petalsand vines that entangle,t'would grow under moonlightin mud, I suppose. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like? - Barbara Hillary

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great. - Alain de Botton

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

There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help. - Charles Bukowski

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree. - G.K. Chesterton

If I had the power to burn evil over 6 billion people wouldn't be alive today. - Daniel Marques

There would be no salvaging this. I was going to die a spinster with cobwebs feasting on my vagina, I just knew it. - R. J. Lewis

It’s a funny thing, friendship. One minute a person is driving you crazy, making you want to shake them, and the next minute you realize what a crappy place the world would be without them in it. - Natasha Friend

They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world. - Anna M. Aquino

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. - Kurt Cobain

Let's be real. Like I would date someone who didn't go out of their way to be my nemesis." - Shane Carver (The Carver's Magic) - B.L. Brooklyn

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? - Mark Twain

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

See the mountains kiss high HeavenAnd the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgivenIf it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth,And the moonbeams kiss the sea -What is all this sweet work worthIf thou kiss not me? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him. - Neil Gaiman

Why would you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers? - Helen Banham Carter

. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. - Edward Clodd

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

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile. - Tyler Knott Gregson

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. - Robert Orben

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

Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon - Roger Lowenstein

Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. - Christina Rossetti

The goal is essential to getting what you would like." ## - Harry S. Vested Jr.

If God took a selfie, it would look like you. - Eleanor Brownn

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

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 life be like without Music and Art? Dull, quiet, and sad. - Andrea L'Artiste

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

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

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

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off. - Ronald Reagan

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

When you initiate something creative and develop your policies that are solution based, you would then be able to flourish audiences who can heavily rely on your ideas for future success. - Saaif Alam

There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose - because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.

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

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

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

How much would you give to make your dream a living reality? Use the time you have. - J.R. Rim

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. - Lewis Carroll

If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly! - Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there. - Adam Young

When all others were just wishing to travel all around the world, I would just settle with a piece of your soul, where I will quietly watch my universe expand ... You - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true. - Robert Frost

When thinking about what to do next with your life, don’t ask yourself what you would succeed at, but what you would most enjoy failing at. - Clifford Cohen

Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself. - Portia Nelson

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right - Miguel de Unamuno

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3) - John Calvin

Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing. - Robert Jordan

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You know men. We have delicate egos.""I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.""No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos," Simon admitted. - Cassandra Clare

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others. - Lauryn Hill

Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before. - Sunday Adelaja

If the modern Protestant churches must maintain her place of relevance in the society, we would need to review where we missed it and how we have diverted from the teachings of the Protestants. - Sunday Adelaja

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

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men. - Theodore Roosevelt

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical - Trey Parker

I would love to become a poor writer as per my choice then a billionaire businessman as per them... - shivangi lavaniya

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

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. - Edith Sitwell

To a writer, self-doubt is horrible. But what if you didn't have it, where would the challenge be? - Mekiah Johnson

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors. - Tracie Molton

I do not fear being hurt, nor am I ever sorry should such pain take hold of me. My real fear would be to never know the the joy of loving someone so deeply as to be that vulnerable… - Tonny K. Brown

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

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. - Walter Moers

A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth bereft to fend for herself in the backstabbing night of political bogeys. - Nick Bostrom

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! - Barry M. Goldwater

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there? - Catherine Fisher

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. - Mel Brooks

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? - Peter McWilliams

As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney. - Tad Williams

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill

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

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. - Eugene V. Debs

If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accept of who you are and your hopes would be fulfilled if you are persistent with yourself. - Saaif Alam

Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives? The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness. - Geoffrey Neighor

Tomorrow will be a better day, we shall be safe ...only if we are safe today to reach tomorrow, things would change with a brighter light. - Auliq-Ice

I thought I would be understood without words. - Vincent Van Gogh

You know what these God Bless America people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow they’re so crazy about. They’re always talking about What would Jesus do? They don’t wanna know so they can do it – they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it! - George Carlin

People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell. - Michael Bassey Johnson

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water. - Russell Brand

[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

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin

Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. - Lewis Carroll

He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out. - Matthew Thomas

IMMORTALITY, n. A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. G.J. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Tomorrow go out and do one good deed something you would'nt normally do, then make it a habit and add another each and every time you've owned and mastered the one before and then even you can turn Iron into Gold - Lateef Abader

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation - Linda Simpson

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats. - Eugen Weber

If there was no such thing as 'Competition' , would there be such a thing as 'Success - Hiba Fatima Ahmad

SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan

If life's journey was intended to be easy, we would have been given directions. However, since we have no road map, we must climb the highest mountain and forge the deepest streams with love in our souls, in the hope that our own journey will give us peace within... - Virginia Alison

Live in such a way that you would be certain that you have derived maximum from life - Sunday Adelaja

I also know a Were-Pomeranian named Phoebe Fluffenstuff that will gut someone with her samurai sword as casually as you would slice a pie - James R Tuck

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 would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. - Ethel Barrett

I utter what you would not dare think. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so. - A.W. Tozer

She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering. - Tess Thompson

Consider for a moment that when you see someone as being ‘gifted’, it is out of a belief that whatever it is that they do, would be impossible for you to do. You should also consider that maybe their ‘gift’, is nothing more than an undeveloped skill in you. - Gary Hopkins

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

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

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. - John Barrymore

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. - William Stafford

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. - Mignon McLaughlin

Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was someone for whom even happiness would cry for, mourning the death of his sentiments and murdering the existence of his soul. - Faraaz Kazi

What you endured was a sign of what you would become. - Matshona Dhliwayo

24 hours a day, ain't enough anymore! But give some a Century a day and procrastination would still be their undoing. - Nike Thaddeus

If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed. - Patrick H.T. Doyle

The more I love nature the least I'm afraid to die. I wouldn't mind being a part of the trees and the place that makes everything possible. - Alex Guidroz

It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning. - Simone Weil

The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. - Sophocles

How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received. - Kentetsu Takamori

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. - Aaron Copland

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. - Jane Austen

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

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking. - George MacDonald

Faith in God is a promise that we’re never alone, that there’s a higher power that will look over us in times of despair. If people would just grasp this, even as an idea, they’ll soon find that it’s not just an idea, but the truth to a more meaningful life. - Ron Baratono

In walking or working your dream, arriving is a bad thing, because arriving makes you do things you said you wouldn’t do when you started. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends... - Virginia Alison

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

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

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death. - Goldie Hawn

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. - Zig Ziglar

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

What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you? - Doug Dillon

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar. - Luis Bunuel

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.

We would rather run ourselves down than not speak of ourselves at all. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I would often invent this dream for myself at the edge of sleep, and then it was strange how content it would make me, how it would make peace and consolation flow, and I would close my eyes and float on it into my real dreams which were never so kind [...]. - Alice Munro

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it. - Jonathan Safran Foer

I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. - William Shakespeare

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. - John Mason Brown

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

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

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks. - Frederick The Great

Even if you had committed a murder, I would have committed one too just so I could be with you… Even if you could not speak, see, hear or walk... I would have always, do you hear me, always stayed with you! - Rom Amor

Never take someone for granted based on your perception and act on it, for that would yield in ultimate disaster! - Ramana Pemmaraju

I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere... - Emma Donoghue

If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.(Dark Lover) - J.R. Ward

When the focus becomes ‘What would Jesus do?’ instead of ‘What has Jesus done?’ the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter. - Michael S. Horton

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings. - Eli Attie

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good. - Lord Mahavira

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

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading. - A.N.L. Munby

Part of me was afraid that if I raised my fist to the sky and demanded an answer now, I would hear a thundering and calloused, 'Because I said so," from God in heaven. And I may not ever want to speak to Him again. - Sarah Thebarge

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. - Patrick Rothfuss

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

If the man had every other baby there would never be a fourth.

I would rather live 10 years doing what I Love, than drag through Life 50 years, hating everyday I Live. - RVM

If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls. - Terry Carr

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

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. - George Carlin

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

Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god) - A.J. Beirens

I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied. - Daniel Díez Ginestar

It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would not be an adventure, and I wonder if there would be much point in the journey. - Jeffrey R. Anderson

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

Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond. - L.M. Montgomery

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

As the bell rang he would look back at the departing year. He always found it a moving experience. Sometimes he was racked by sorrow and regret. Even when the sentimentality of the announcers repelled him, the tolling of the bells echoed in his heart. - Yasanuri Kawabata

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. - Ann Coulter

Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense."Giles: Well, actually, that would be one of the five. - Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen in love with the second. - Johnny Depp

If i had it all to do again there would be more bodies. - Phil Baker

Some people would rather be right than free. - Vivian Amis

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all. - Irving Stone

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

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? - Steven Wright

You might call them the icing on life’s cake, but music, laughter and the enjoyment of eating are the toppings that flavor everyday living. These added accents or accessories do spice up the cake. If served without, life would be rather bland! - Wes Adamson

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams. - Joyce Rachelle

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel - Joan Didion

What the sense feels, what the spirit perceives, is never an end in itself. But sense and spirit would like to persuade you that they are the end of all things: they are as vain as that. - Nietszche

[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

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

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

If the whole world followed you, Followed to the letter,Tell me if it followed you,Would the world be better? - Unknown from Apples of Gold

His name is David Bowie and he's nineteen. Would you like to meet him? - Tony Visconti

She was exactly right and wrong in the perfect sort of way. This kiss would be the first of many, she was the type of girl I would desperately fight for to stay. - Hubert Martin

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe. - Timothy Egan

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride. - Raheel Farooq

Okay, so he wasn't dreaming anymore, but did this fall into same song second verse? He would just have to play this out and see what happened. - Kindle Alexander

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' - William Ralph Inge

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. - Calvin Coolidge

A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'! - Kathy Griffin

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

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all. - Donna Lynn Hope

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it. - Joe Hill

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

I haven't slept for a whole week, because that would be too long. - Mitch Hedberg

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

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

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. - Howard Nemerov

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 decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth? - Janet Fitch

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life. - Martin Amis

If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs. - Sui Ishida

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

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent. - Kenneth Logan

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing. - Aneta Cruz

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing. - William Shakespeare

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

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her. - Philip Pullman

If he knew so much then why? Because he wanted to know more... He knows his heart cannot betray her ... But he knows now more than he ever dreams of... And is hoping that what he would offer to be worthy of his AAA+ - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it. - Mae West

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It would be a remarkable life, if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not have much to live - Faisal Khosa

"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

We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali. - Solange nicole

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

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

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

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

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. - Henry Ford

Humans would become very sick without natural radio frequency (RF) exposures. - Steven Magee

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today - Green Day

Even though we live in an unfair world, where some men and nations acquire their wealth in ways that are not always as straightforward as we would like it to be, yet in the midst of it all, it is not impossible to discover principles and secrets for the greatness of nations. - Sunday Adelaja

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

Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that? - Artemus Withers

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's. - Ezra Taft Benson

Something not from earth, Jean Luc said. The setup was too perfect. Misha looked at me, and I sighed, dreading what he would be unable to stop himself from saying next. Live long and prosper. - A.E. Jones

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

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? - Mikhail Bulgakov

No, no, it's not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and the universe doesn't. It takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. - R.J. Palacio

If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure. - Delaine Robins

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 downside, my beauty, is that you’re in a fogged glass bubble that’s as far out of my reach as I can imagine. I wish you would use your gaudy engagement ring to cut a hole through the glass to be able see me. - A.Wilding Wells

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

ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer. - John Paul Warren

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

Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'. - Faraaz Kazi

You would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to! - Steven Magee

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful? - Gerard Way

I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours. - Stephanie Klein

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. - George Santayana

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

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

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

If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it. - Arthur Schopenhauer

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard. - Andrew Vachss

What would life be if we didn't shake and wake ourselves up once and a while - Heather Richards

A sensitive person must find a sensitive life partner otherwise a raw life partner would become a puzzle for his/her entire life - Muhammad Anwar Jalil

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. - Frances Willard

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education. - Destiny Booze

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

I found focusing on the positives was really beneficial. I wrote down thoughts about how much better I would feel and look and how much calmer and more present I would be when I could get through the initial phase of wanting sugar and pop out the other side - Damon Gameau

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. - Dick Gregory

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

If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist. - David Walsh

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

The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for. - Shannon L. Alder

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare. - Blake Crouch

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. - Phyllis Diller

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it? - Ben Carson

she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport - Marlene Perez

Sometimes you wish the world would be a better place and sometimes you wish the world was a better place. Only the great understanding of the difference of the time between the past and present moment will make it a better place. - Jammy Creamer

The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallying I would be wise to remember that an investment that is not of God will leave a zero balance on the ledger of my life no matter how many different ways I try to add it up. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance - T.S. Eliot

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed. - Elizabeth George

And I wanted to believe that there could be an us. That some way, somehow there would be an us somewhere in the future that I could not see. - Nade Marshall

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

I often come across this question. "Which is the best camera in the world?". I would always say, "Well. You already own two of it, since your birth. - Kowtham Kumar K

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again. - Dan Barden

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world. - Stephen King

Our Heavenly Father did not form us and place us on this planet so that we would manage on our own. Neither does the popular saying, God helps those who help themselves, hold any water. The Truth is we all need help. Those who look strong and contained on the outside may not be so on the inside. - Eve Juurik

Most of us are responsible most of the time, or we would not have come this far, it is remembering to not tell the victim story when we are under pressure that makes you a leader. - Malti Bhojwani

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

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people. - Doris Egan

Someone has tricked people into thinking their names must be kissed by bright lights and painted into Hollywood sidewalks to be someone special. And for most, there is no cost too great...But I would just like to know who did it. - Andrea L'Artiste

A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather. - Matshona Dhliwayo

One would see the multitude oppressed inside society as a consequence of the very precautions taken against threats from outside, one would see oppression increase continually without the oppressed ever being able to know where it would end, nor what legitimate means remained for them to halt it.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

The strangest things in life, are often closer to reality, than reality would like to admit. - Anthony L.S.

It is not the amount of money or natural resources a nation has that determines how civilized it would be. - Sunday Adelaja

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

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us. - Leslie G Nelson

Soon there would be the evening call to prayer and all over Zinder people would be thanking Allah for the gift of one more day, of one more moment in which to live and breathe. - Kathleen Hill

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind. - Heather Armstrong

We just have to believe and excise our faith: The Lord answered, 'If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to thi mulberry tree, 'May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it would obey you!(Luke 17:6, NLT). - Euginia Herlihy

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings’ making, and I had come out stronger. - Rosie Pugh

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Think of money as energy like you would love and then the belief in the universe will provide all you have been dreaming of. - Nikki Rowe

I recalled thinking...His freakishly tidy side could be a problem. To say that neatness was not my strong suit would be a crime against, well, the truth. - Betsy Cook Speer

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. - Henry Fielding

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public. - Ayn Rand

What can you do for love?Can you leave a person for love?Can you leave a country for love?I think I wouldn't even leave my couch for love - Sanhita Baruah

mysterious like the moon, she would delight you in her glow, her light alone can make you question yourself.. & who was she? She will never let you know. - Nikki Rowe

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer. - Larry McMurtry

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer. - Orson Scott Card

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

It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it. - James Lee Burke

If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong. - Shannon L. Alder

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. - Alexandre Dumas

Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it? - Matt Groening

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

If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted. - Christy Leigh Stewart

Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne - D.J. MacHale

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. - J. B. S. Haldane

One would like to live poetically, that is, with gratitude and grace. - Marty Rubin

We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more…imagination. - Wes Adamson

I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing. - César Aira

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

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

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

If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn't appreciate the magic. - Nikki Rowe

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it - Kathy Acker

If you wouldn't invite a thief in your house why would you allow a liar in. the only difference between the two is the thief steals your money and objects the liar steals with words by deceit of manipulation by - Bonnie Zackson Koury

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. - San Juan de la Cruz

They were untouched by modern education, but their government was striving with might and main to procure this inestimable benefit for them; anticlericalism and American bustle would soon free them from belief in miracles and holy likenesses. - Robertson Davies

Leaders of all systems (Capitalism, Communism, etc.) in History claimed to serve the people. All Systems would work if the leaders meant it! - Francis Mont

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. - Mark Twain

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. - Mark Twain

I would rather be kind than wise. - Debasish Mridha

I've seen so much and lived it all. I wanted to bite the earth and taste it. It is both bitter and sweet, and if I had my time to live over again, I wouldn’t change a damn thing — Reg Spiers - Julie McSorley Marcus McSorley

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government. - Woodrow Wilson

Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to degenerate into corn dogs to make them happy, or we can just accept the fact that we were made for Paris! - C. JoyBell C.

... walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend. - tsegaye gebre medhin

Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain. - Niccolò Machiavelli

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

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

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders - Dan Farmer

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. - T.E. Lawrence

You want it to be easy? But if it was easy, everyone Would be doing it.. And if everyone is doing it? Why do you want to be the same... Trust that the struggle you face Is your path to success & remember If it's easy, it's not worth it. - Nikki Rowe

I would not have imagined that love himself would have such a fatal blow this. - Valentinno

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. - J.M.L. Monsabre

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

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

They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.

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

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. - William Gibson

If I open my mouthMy word would be of love and hopeTenderness completing me from inside out - Chimnese Davids

If you've experienced half of the things I've passed through in life, you wouldn't underestimate the power of love. - Ifeanyi Dede

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered. - Peter Straub

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God would burn his enemies forever. - Robert G. Ingersoll

If I wanted you to understand, I would have explained it better ~ Aarush Kashyap - Kirtida Gautam

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats. - Anne Lamott

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Henry Asquith

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. - James Gavin

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

One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth. - Nikki Rowe

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. - Ivan Pavlov

I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape against the jagged pieces. I would not be cut today. - Hubert Martin

One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls. - Daleen Van Tonder

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. - John Locke

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else. - Erica Bauermeister

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?" - Terry Pratchett

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat. - Tao Lin

I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. - Frank Sinatra

All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who deserves the best of me. - Hubert Martin

If we truly believe that we are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ, our actions would begin to reflect that belief. - Alisa Hope Wagner

If everyone realized this truth about their own inherent power to create and to attract whatever they desired, not everyone would want to be the president of a country, not everyone would want to live on that mansion on the hill, and not everyone would want the same things you would. - Stephen Richards

Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe I should truly contemplate how rarely I recognize that God understands both. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Stars are not afraid of you surpassing them; if they were, they would not light your way to the edge of the universe. - Matshona Dhliwayo

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 I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. - Albert Einstein

I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

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

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. - Eric Hoffer

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. - Albert Einstein

If you knew you were going to lose your memorybut you could choose five things you’d never forget, what would they be—a certain face, a taste, a scent,a touch; how deepin this, the middle of your life? - Kristen Henderson

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

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

They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel. - Robert Jordan

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion - Steven Weinberg

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. - Katherine Anne Porter

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. - Mark Twain

Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight. - Eduardo Galeano

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough. - Helen Prejean

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. - Dr. Frank Crane

I am insane, does that surprise you? Ha! I think my mind is crumbling, just like crackers. If I had written five minutes earlier I would have wept, if I had written ten minutes earlier I would have told you to leave me alone, if I wait any longer I won’t write at all. - @ neuroticdream Tumblr

It would be infinitely more prudent to be a single David standing with God, than a million Goliath’s standing without Him. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.* - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. - Euripides

If the words you spoke appeared on your skin, would you still be beautiful? - Auliq Ice

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely. - Valerie Tripp

Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants. - Neil Gaiman

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

A thought to ponder: If I couldn't use words to speak, what would my life be saying? - Evinda Lepins

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. - Ovid

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men. - George Iles

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. - Oscar Wilde

So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place. - Matt Smith

Live your lives in such a way that you would be sure you are productive, effective and satisfied on all levels. - Sunday Adelaja

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

-I would die for you-You lie -If I lie, why do I stand here before you and beg on my knees to get you back? -Because you're feeling alone -If need your love-You don't need me, you only need a person-And you're that person-No I'm not-But I love you-That what I do - M

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus' COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us from any circumstance we might worry about. - Jim Savastio

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky - Catherine Mackinnon

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

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

Would you marry me and love me forever because I'm a man. Think twice and don't complain later. :D - nugas

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses - John Ruskin

But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest - Hermann Hesse

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. - Criss Jami

We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor fear to be a king. - Emily Dickinson

Once when asked how I would like to be remembered, I answered, "As someone who opened doors. - Dave Brubeck

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? - Ronnie Shanks

A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant. - Jennifer Arnett

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one. - Clarence Darrow

Just a drop in the ocean," you say,And that may be true,But the ocean wouldn't be as full,If it weren't for you. - Kyra Jackson

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

I was lost in the moments I decided to keep. To be awake in a dreamless sleep. And in that place between dream and sleep, I planted some more things I would like to keep. - Hubert Martin

I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil. - Clarence Darrow

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

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. - Rudyard Kipling

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered. - Stephen Hawking

I could die a million times if my death would be the reason our love would live forever. - Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. - George Bernard Shaw

I would have made a good Pope. - Richard M. Nixon

We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend

Standing beside you,I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy. - David Ignatow

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain? - Peter James West

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen - George R.R. Martin

I would encourage you to embrace life in your living. - Ricky Maye

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

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard. - Peg Kehert

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened. Then why am I so sad? - Lena Dunham

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable. - Donovan

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

When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid? - Michael Scherer

If I were given a choice, I would stand by Eve and eat that forbidden apple once again. Why? I know there is beauty and meaning and significance in the complexity of our lives on earth. Otherwise, we are just animals. I prefer us to be human. - J.D. Radke

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

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. - Edward O. Wilson

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. - Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't. - Henry James

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced. - Ellen J. Barrier

Look in Kego’s defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn’t for him.Jenny Smith In The Navigator by - Steve Merrick

Does it, does it—I'm flailing here—does it have a name? What you've done?If it had a name, he says, what would that change, exactly? Would it be more acceptable to you? Would it be a thing people do? Would it have a category unto itself? - Jess Row

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets. - Lucretius

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull. - Stephanie Barron

If I were to live for tomorrow, I would have lived fullest for today. - Santosh Kalwar

Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them. - Munia Khan

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. - John Lennon

I would fight every angel between us until God said, "Yes. - Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes the world around you makes you do things you would never do out of the circumstances. - Haidji

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

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination... - Himmilicious

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. - Anatole France

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we’ve done with it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God. - D.L. Moody

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude. - Katherine Mansfield

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me. - William Shakespeare

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition. - Alisa Steinberg

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do. - Ashly Lorenzana

I would rather have someone say they hate me and mean it, than have someone say they love me and not. - Jeffrey Fry

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness. - George Eliot

I stole you, among others, from the streets of God’s birthplace. I forced you to work as a slave. Imprisoned, mistreated and starved you and your companion. To top it off, I am in the process of selling your life to the highest bidder. Why would you trust me? - V.S. Carnes

Trying is something we do when we think we can’t do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will. -- Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City - Jemima Pett

They prised open the door in the morning. The beatific expression on hisface was exactly what one would find in a temple deity or the just dead - anunsmiling smile. The absurdity and humour was there if one could just seeit, the question and answer staring one in the face. - Srividya Srinivasan

The Soul has never become impure not even for a second and if it had become impure then no one in this world would have been able to purify it. - Dada Bhagwan

Hip Hop Generation captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as post-this or post-that. - Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "

Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame? - Bruce Bawer

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

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths. - L.M. Montgomery

The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could? - Craig D. Lounsbrough

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors - Nouman Ali Khan

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] - Cormac McCarthy

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain

To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All - Martin Suarez

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly. - George Carlin

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever. - Neil Gaiman

Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu.Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a beautiful form without content. - Henri Lebesgue

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory. - Elisabeth Elliot

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. - Edmund Burke

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin. - Eddie Campbell

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. "You tiresome man!" cried Indolentio's wife, "You've grown indifferent to all in life." "Indifferent?" he drawled with a slow smile; "I would be, dear, but it is not worth while." Apuleius M. Gokul - Ambrose Bierce

I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to. - Kate Chisman

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality. - Amit Kalantri

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

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

I would rather make one percent of a hundred men's efforts than one hundred percent of my own. This way if ten get sick and ten get run over by a truck, I still have eighty percent of my income.

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done. - Patrick Rothfuss

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed. - Deeksha Mittal

There, amongst the angry water was the glow of green eyes, hundreds of them encompassed the entire area...We were completely and totally surrounded. They all hung just below the water waiting for a sign to attack. There was no hope. We would all perish... - Meredith T. Taylor

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. - Albert Einstein

I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993) - Maurice Sendak

Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile. - Wynne McLaughlin

In order to keep liking Nick (as opposed to loving him which was completely non-negotiable) Alice sometimes had to look at him obliquely or with her eyes half closed or through a pin hole on a piece of cardboard. Straight on would burn her retinas. - Carol Anshow

There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things! - Oprah Winfrey

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart. - Annie Fellows Johnston

When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time. - RSCruz

If we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of a man named Jesus. As he asked Peter, he asks all mankind, "Who do you say that I am?" "Our idea of God," observed Thomas Merton, "tells us more about ourselves than about Him. - Ron Brackin

AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? - Hélène Cixous

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon. - Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. - David Letterman

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be. - Gabrielle Hamilton

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

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. - Sue Monk Kidd

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

I do not know how it all started, but I would certainly play my part in how it all ends. - Mamur Mustapha

Without fools there would be no wisdom. - Benjamin ndayishimiye

Sometimes you should ask yourself if the world would be a better place without your existence, then you would know if you are on the right path or not. - Gugu Mona

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself - Meg Cabot

I would prefer to try and fail than to not try at all. - Grant McLachlan

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive. - Jim Sheeler

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. - Horace

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? - Anne Frank

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

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. - Paul Eldridge

I say, "You a kind girl," and she nod, repeat it back to me. But before I can do another one, she get up and chase that poor dog around the yard and laugh and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day? - Kathyrn Stockett

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

If achieving a desired goal was easy why would anyone bother. There'd be no fun. - Veronica Purcell

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. - Anonymous

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour. - Kenneth Rexroth

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? - Sandra Day O'Connor

Disposal of thoughts would diminish your intelligence level and you would not be able to fulfill critical responsibilities that would revolve throughout your life. - Saaif Alam

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - 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

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. - Cyril Connolly

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive. - Stanley Kubrick

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. - John Keats

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

Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarchists. - Nick La Rocca

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us - Robert Burns

Unable and crippled I amAs I gaze into the vastnessThe vastness that harbors your praiseAnd glories of the best of creation...If I tried to spell..A drop of ink from your loveMa quill would burn in shamefor your love match no words...ya rasoolullah! - Anila Aboo