Top Would Be Quotes Collection

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Image of Barbara Pym
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.
- Barbara Pym
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Image of Emily Bronte
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
- Emily Bronte
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Image of Emily Bronte
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.
- Emily Bronte
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Image of Arthur Rubinstein
I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.
- Arthur Rubinstein
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Image of L.P. Hartley
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
- L.P. Hartley
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Image of George Soros
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
- George Soros
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Image of Naomi Watts
If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.
- Naomi Watts
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Image of Myles Munroe
You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.
- Myles Munroe
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Image of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Image of Jef Raskin
If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.
- Jef Raskin
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Image of C.D. Wright
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
- C.D. Wright
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Image of David Rakoff
Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.
- David Rakoff
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Image of Robert Motherwell
If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.
- Robert Motherwell
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Image of Bill Rancic
Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
- Bill Rancic
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Image of Barry Bonds
When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it's whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.
- Barry Bonds
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Image of Janet Erskine Stuart
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
- Janet Erskine Stuart
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Image of Andre Norton
Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.
- Andre Norton
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Image of Alexandra Bracken
But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
- Alexandra Bracken
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Image of Naoki Higashida
Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?
- Naoki Higashida
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Image of Walter Moers
If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.
- Walter Moers
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Image of Adam Braun
In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
- Adam Braun
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Image of Flannery O'Connor
A God you understood would be less than yourself.
- Flannery O'Connor
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Image of St. Catherine of Siena
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
- St. Catherine of Siena
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Image of Robert B. Parker
I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.
- Robert B. Parker
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Image of Amy Krouse Rosenthal
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Image of Louis Sachar
Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
- Louis Sachar
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Image of Tite Kubo
If it's me, it would be a waste not to dance no matter what.
- Tite Kubo
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Image of Lora Leigh
Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.
- Lora Leigh
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Image of Susan Glaspell
What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
- Susan Glaspell
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Image of Miriam Toews
I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.
- Miriam Toews
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Image of Charles Addams
To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.
- Charles Addams
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Image of Charles Addams
A day alone, only that would be death.
- Charles Addams
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Image of Alexandra Ripley
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
- Alexandra Ripley
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Image of Itzhak Perlman
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.
- Itzhak Perlman
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Image of Scott Turow
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
- Scott Turow
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Image of Joey Comeau
If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.
- Joey Comeau
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Image of Jesse Ball
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
- Jesse Ball
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Image of Suzanne Weyn
It'll be okay." She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say?
- Suzanne Weyn
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Image of Salvador Plascencia
But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.
- Salvador Plascencia
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Image of Michael Schumacher
If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.
- Michael Schumacher
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Image of Richard Rorty
If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
- Richard Rorty
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Image of Bess Truman
I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.
- Bess Truman
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Image of Ferdinand de Saussure
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.
- Ferdinand de Saussure
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Image of Paul Torday
It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through
- Paul Torday
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Image of Tony Stewart
If I died right now, my life would be complete.
- Tony Stewart
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Image of Ben Aaronovitch
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
- Ben Aaronovitch
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Image of Ron Perlman
Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.
- Ron Perlman
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Image of Dan Quayle
It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
- Dan Quayle
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Image of Stef Penney
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.
- Stef Penney
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Image of Aubrey Plaza
It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.
- Aubrey Plaza
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