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Would Be Quotes by John Steinbeck
- All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
- A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.
- Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
- Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one…
- It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
- It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden…
- An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
- What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in…
- Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time…
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
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- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius