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Would Be Quotes (page 153)

Alice Munro quote: "Life would be grand if it weren't for the people."
Life would be grand if it weren't for the people. Alice Munro
The experiences of BPM I typically have strong mystical overtones; they feel sacred or holy. More precise, perhaps, would be the term numinous, which C.G. Jung used to avoid religious jargon. When we have experiences of this kind, we feel that we have encountered dimnensions of reality that belong to a superior order. Stanislav Grof
[F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children. They certainly get great comfort out of it, and receive much innocent affection that otherwise would be lost. Louisa May Alcott
Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one. Katherine Mansfield
In a world where there were no specifically mental facts, is it not plain that there would be a complete impartiality, an evenly diffused light, not the central illumination fading away into outer darkness, which is characteristic of objects in relation to a mind? Bertrand Russell
Ann Patchett quote: "Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but..."
Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano. Ann Patchett
Augusten Burroughs quote: "Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white,..."
Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal. Augusten Burroughs
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying. Graham Greene
Ayn Rand quote: "She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello'..."
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning. Ayn Rand
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest. Martin Luther
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices. George Bernard Shaw
Frances Power Cobbe quote: "My great panacea for making society at once better and more..."
My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity. Frances Power Cobbe
Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,'... Christopher Hitchens
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead. Bill Bryson
You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how to write a novel. But what you know is the novel you just wrote. You don't have the slightest notion how to write the one you're going to do next. Wallace Stegner

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