Quotes about would-be
would-be paper kind
I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper. Kate Morton
would-be spurs reason
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. Leland Stanford
would-be palestine knows
I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God. John Chancellor
would-be rust literature
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation] Ludwig Borne
would-be care fame
I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk Lucas Grabeel
would-be done method
Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing. Lord Chesterfield
would-be cry courses
It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop. Justin Cronin
would-be deceit problem
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved. Josh Billings
would-be rubbish titles
Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
would-be conflict protest
I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them. Otto von Bismarck
would-be slides misery
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure. Kanye West
would-be investing ifs
I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa. Julian Robertson
would-be stomach knots
I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277) Maria Semple
would-be pope john-paul
Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo. Paul Krassner
would-be virtue claims
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith. Paul Kurtz
would-be mixtures might
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists. Paul Kane
would-be ultimate
Being God would be the ultimate. Macy Gray
would-be should lending
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits. Graydon Carter
would-be rattlesnakes dangerous
Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle. Louis Sachar
would-be boring week
I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts. Matthew Perry
would-be billionaire performances
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not. Marina Abramovic
would-be identical
...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act. Marilynne Robinson
would-be old-testament summary
If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.
would-be coaches ifs
At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach. Karl Malone
would-be christianity knows
We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it. Joseph Sobran
would-be half climate
I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner. Paul R. Ehrlich
would-be accepted
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s Parker Stevenson
would-be interviews chance
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom
would-be three magazines
If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.' Padmasree Warrior
would-be guardian platonic
For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not. Learned Hand
would-be glee fantastic
I would love Kate Middleton to be in 'Glee.' Wouldn't that be fantastic? That would be great. Lea Michele
would-be onions onion-rings
That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It's cool, he's with me. Mitch Hedberg
would-be alternatives attention
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr.