2,367 Quotes About Would-be

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.