Would Be Quotes
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Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.
Joanne Rowling
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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
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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.
C. S. Lewis
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If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
S. E. Hinton
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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
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I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.
Erykah Badu
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I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
Janet Jackson
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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
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I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
C. J. Anderson
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If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!
Dai Vernon
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Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
Umberto Eco
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The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.
Kanye West
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I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me live even more selflessly.
Queen Latifah
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The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.
Dahlia Lithwick
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If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.
A. L. Rowse
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Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.
W. W. Sawyer
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There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same.
Zach Condon
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Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.
Joanne Rowling
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There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
T. C. Boyle
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I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years
Sahndra Fon Dufe
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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
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It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
E. J. Hughes
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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
Vance Havner