Would Quotes
16027 Would quotes by 8512 unique authors
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
— Ray Kurzweil
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The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad…
— Dennis Wilson
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You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not…
— George Stephanopoulos
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If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
— David McCallum
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
— Larry Page
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We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
— James Cromwell
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
— Larry Page
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Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I…
— Mike Judge
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this…
— Phillips Brooks
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central…
— Don DeLillo
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I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that…
— Luigi Pirandello
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I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether…
— Ric Ocasek
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
— Iris Murdoch
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The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would…
— Diane Wood
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
— Samuel Smiles
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to…
— Wyndham Lewis
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I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
— George Michael
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always…
— Lord Byron
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If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy.…
— Joko Beck
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers…
— Nadine Gordimer
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We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for…
— Lance Burton
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
— Mary Antin
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I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I…
— Matthew Macfadyen
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