Would Be Quotes

• The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friendship
  • Expression
  • Typical

• If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Rest
  • Taken
  • Needs

• 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
  • Life
  • Misery
  • Slides

• I never expected that this would be my life.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Expected
  • Would Be

• I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

  

  C. Walton Lillehei
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Would Be

• As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Evil

• If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Ifs
  • Easier

• I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Nice
  • Lying
  • Would Be

• It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Up
  • Work
  • Quality

• It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Free
  • Poetry
  • Function

• If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Giving

• If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Today
  • Passion
  • Dancing

• It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Ignorant
  • Would Be
  • Jewels

• If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • World
  • Business
  • Community

• I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Winning
  • Said
  • Slam

• If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Knows
  • Ifs
  • Lasts

• If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Future
  • Beautiful

• Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Alone

• I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Faces

• I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • People
  • True
  • Religious

• I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Society
  • Eras
  • World Government

• To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Believe
  • Atheism
  • Would Be

• If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • World
  • God
  • Trying

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