2,367 Quotes About Would-be

If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]

Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.