Would Be Quotes

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.

Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

If the Earth were a single state,
Istanbul would be its capital.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable.

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

If there were one million families praying the Rosary every day, the entire world would be saved.

If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

What are you?” I said irritably. “In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I’m stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don’t apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.