Would be Quotes · Page 561

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at…

— Ivan Turgenev

It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power…

— Walter E. Williams

I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned…

— Richard M Nixon

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if…

— Francis Bacon

If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that…

— William Blackstone

I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of…

— Jessica Valenti

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very…

— Anonymous

The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were…

— Randall Munroe

[As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are…

— Stephen Malkmus

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in…

— Swami Vivekananda

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

— John Rawls

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where…

— Astrid Lindgren

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

— Tony Benn

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

— Kenneth Clarke

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want…

— Daniel Craig

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

— James Durbin

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that…

— Newt Gingrich

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see,…

— Ayn Rand

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't…

— Rachel Kushner

London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I'm a lone wolf. I run by myself on most things. I've got lots of really great friends, but the thought of…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I…

— Anonymous

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know…

— Calvin Coolidge

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should…

— David Brainerd