Best Would Be Quotes

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything – except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.

Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

I’ve never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

I think what I’d really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

I salute my desires with a bow.were it not for them to come and playmind would be empty just like me.

If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.

Passion, intellect, moral activity – these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I’d have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve… If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I’d be taking out ads.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

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.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.

I can’t help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at least, I would be her guest-as I was her child; my mother would lodge me without money and without price.