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Would Be Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured…
- It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
- Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
- There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces…
- We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed…
- ....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
- In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever…
- You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like…
- Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could…
- It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.
- Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of…
- He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make…
- Can’t you even tell me if I’m on the right track?" Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. "But if you don’t tell me…
- If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard…
- I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
- How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
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
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- 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
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- 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